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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (transitive, now rare) To make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon).
- (intransitive, figuratively) To interfere with; to encroach (on, upon).
- (intransitive) To have an effect upon; to limit.
Esimerkit
- The ordinary rocks upon which such men do impinge and precipitate themselves, are cards, dice, hawks, and hounds […].
- It is astonishing that the meaning of a single declarative sentence enshrined in the Bill of Rights has evaded judicial construction establishing, at a minimum, some bedrock level of state sovereignty upon which the federal government can not impinge.
- “I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”
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