Over the past 10 years, dance has impinged on the public consciousness as never before, but it's not all down to celebrity antics on Saturday night TV.
Over the last year and more, Ravinia has impinged on the consciousness of music lovers in New York not accustomed to associating trains with classical music except, perhaps, in a sporadic hearing of Arthur Honegger's "Pacific 231".
Another name is David Michael Kennedy Paynee denies that he was influenced by the sleeve photo on a certain singer-songwriter album that shares its name with his film, but if the through-the-windscreen shot on Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska isn't a direct reference, it's nevertheless likely that Kennedy's catalogue of looming skies has impinged on the film's repertoire of echoes.
You'd have thought, for instance, that Kennedy's use of the National Guard in 1963 to protect black Alabama students would have impinged on neighbouring Georgia.
"Irish history has been one of uninterrupted failure since the beginning of the 19th century, and this has impinged on our psychology," Mr. Keenan said.
And this isn't the first time China has impinged on Vietnam's EEZ.
"Technology has impinged on reporting," he said.
Over the past week, television has impinged on all our lives.
A 2009 survey of Latino families around the country whose homes had been foreclosed had similar findings: amid the stress, marriages broke down; family members fell out; children's academic performance suffered.The proliferation of foreclosures has impinged on politics, too.
Mr. Specter said that with many questions about whether the law has impinged on due process and civil rights, Congressional officials "want to see exactly what they're doing and where the justification is".
