impinge upon
Example Sentences
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World Athletics said allowing the athletes to transfer their nationality "would impinge upon and compromise the imperatives underlying the World Athletics eligibility rules and transfer of allegiance regulations".
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
There’s so many factors that can impinge upon the expression of that bond.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2022
Justice Department guidelines require approval from the attorney general to investigate or charge a member of the news media with a crime, to ensure that law enforcement does not impinge upon freedom of the press.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021
Any financial support for local media must include thoroughgoing safeguards to ensure that public funding does not impinge upon the editorial independence.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2020
When vibrations of light or sound impinge upon the sensorium, they are relayed from nerve cell to nerve cell until they reach the central brain.
From Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Hilton, Warren
