Sentence examples for impinges from inspiring English sources

Of course all suggestions of improper behaviour by police have to be rigorously investigated but the current froth of comment impinges upon the integrity of most police officers, regardless of rank, which is unfair and unjustified.

As for the rather sensible argument that what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home neither harms anybody nor impinges on anyone else's rights to disapprove of what they do (only to have that disapproval codified into law), the court held that it was a question for the legislature.The question now, of course, is whether Singapore's legislature will take up the debate.

Is there any other way of protecting women's reproductive health that impinges on religious employers less substantially than the contraceptive mandate?

She left me wondering defiantly what windows were for.But that dream world impinges in odd ways.

A global water crisis, which impinges on supplies of food and other goods, or affects rivers and lakes everywhere, is quite another.

CNN's flagship business-news programme, Lou Dobbs Tonight, which you might expect to strive for economic literacy, has embarked on a rabidly anti-trade editorial agenda, with its host greeting every announcement of lost jobs as akin to a terrorist assault.The fact that foreign competition now impinges on services as well as manufacturing raises no new issues of principle whatever.

Despite the cost, this is sensible, given that no country wants to participate in any organisation that impinges on sovereignty as heavily as the EU does without being able to use its own language when making the rules.But Irish poses the sternest test of that principle.

Foiled in an attempt to stage a play of her own writing, Briony engineers another plot which impinges irrevocably on real lives.

On all sorts of issues, from the composition of his cabinet to overhauling the budget, he has proved less of a reformer than many imagined at the time of his election.As it happens, the relief effort in Aceh also impinges on the budget.

The ban on halal and kosher slaughtering also impinges on the similar practices of one of Denmark's tiniest religious minorities, the Mandaens, an ancient Persian gnostic sect.Mr Jorgensen retorts that the type of ritual slaughter that has just been proscribed has not taken place in Denmark for years.

The fiscal compact impinges no more than that on national sovereignty.The real point of the two-thirds parliamentary hurdle may be to impress the final arbiter: the constitutional court.