"impinge upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a slightly formal way of saying have a negative effect on. For example, "The current economic crisis is impinging upon the ability of many people to buy basic necessities".
The suggestion seems to be that this impinges upon and detracts from my independence.
Why not with respect to a situation that impinges upon the lives of numerous New Yorkers?
This pathway impinges upon various organ primordia to instruct their side-specific development.
With Jane Austen, the fact that a major war was raging hardly impinges upon the consciousness of the characters.
radiation pressure The transfer of momentum carried by electromagnetic radiation to a body that the radiation impinges upon.
The absence of mammalian APN experimental structure negatively impinges upon the progression of structure-based drug design.
We see with it - that is, we make sense of our surroundings (sometimes) using signals that our eyes send to our brains when light impinges upon them.
It's true: many, if not most, children's books presuppose a common enemy in the form of the parent, the one who assigns chores and impinges upon fun.
Here we demonstrate that PTEN impinges upon MYC and CCND1 expression at the transcriptional level by increasing the loading of a repressive DAXX H3.3 complex on the chromatin.
Similarly, the anti-globalisation movement has drawn attention to the ramifications of international law as it impinges upon the developing world.
But it is said that this statute is unconstitutional upon a different groundthat it impinges upon the trial judge's powers over the judicial proceeding.
