impinge

Preposition: on

• eyesense: We forget that seeing only sees what impinges on the eyesense: color or visible object.
• earsense: There are also moments of just hearing, hearing of what impinges on the earsense, of sound.
• consciousness: She has done a great deal of the groundwork to make late 2005 the time when she impinges excitingly on the public consciousness.
• freedom: And the number of laws which directly and indirectly impinge on press freedoms in Malaysia is not just five or 10, but 35.
• aspect: They impinge on every aspect of life - domestic, social, commercial, industrial and environmental.

Preposition: upon

• right: Might these not impinge upon the right to freedom of expression?
• freedom: And freedom of speech is limited because the freedom and autonomy of one impinges upon the freedom and autonomy of another.
• consciousness: There are increasing numbers of documents and reports of this nature as the implications of the aging population impinge upon the political consciousness.
• policy: OK - not a government initiative but in the light of the 2002 mental health bill it seriously impinges upon government policy.

Modifying Another Word

• directly: However, some policy agendas do impinge directly on the work of teachers.
• significantly: The extra cost of having to continually re-calculate the characteristics for an unsteady flow does not impinge significantly on the overall computational speed.
• not: Was the phrase, " will not impinge " a step too far for the Minister?
• really: But the whole thing didn't really impinge on me that much.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• upon: A good design should never unduly impinge upon or detract from the performance.