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Human rights advocates fear the new policy will impinge on civil rights.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

"We have consulted with these communities to ensure nothing in these laws will impinge on the use or display of these symbols in association with those religions," Mr Dreyfus said.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2023

But it seems clear that artificial intelligence will impinge on work in different ways than previous waves of technology.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

To a degree these are the ins and outs of EU politics but they will impinge on the big argument that has to be settled this autumn.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2014

New forces will impinge upon us; new wind, new rain, and the light of another sun; and we must alter to meet them.

From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Bagehot, Walter