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
Achieving a world in which one’s sexual orientation does not impinge upon one’s life choices and opportunities is the crux of the gay rights movement — or at least it used to be.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2020
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
In other cases the four broken ends impinge upon the interosseous space, and may become united to one another, preventing the movements of pronation and supination.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
