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Abortion bans, which have passed into law in most Republican-led states, don’t just impinge upon women’s most fundamental rights; they also send a message that conservative lawmakers do not trust women with their own bodies and that our primary purpose is reproduction.

From Slate

The ART Act, she said, was introduced to stop commercial use of surrogacy, to regulate and supervise clinics, not to impinge upon personal freedoms of aggrieved parents.

From BBC

Yet Mueller said that under certain conditions, such as when a turbine is ramping up or down or if the hot combustion gases impinge upon cold walls, the ammonia combustion process can become disrupted and N2O emissions can quickly accumulate.

For years, lawmakers have introduced similar legislation that has failed to advance because of concerns that such efforts would impinge upon civil liberties.

There’s so many factors that can impinge upon the expression of that bond.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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