infringe on/upon sth

Examples of infringe

infringe
In the end, the ministry was intermittently criticized for enriching minority entrepreneurs and infringing on the privileges of minority vested interest.
This decree considerably increased the sanctions for special settlers who fled their places of confinement or who infringed the innumerable regulations governing the 'special settlements'.
What is counterposed to the right against paternalistic interference is always the good of the individual whose right we are considering infringing.
In the hiker case, for instance, we might deny that the cabin owner really had a right that was infringed by the hiker.
Insofar as this right has been infringed upon, they have suffered a token harm.
A cooperative agent knows how to detect situations that infringe these laws and acts to remove them.
Or the designer/developer who has actually developed a product that infringes individual rights?
The one thing they had in common was a desire to protect their personal and local interests against whatever authority tried to infringe on them.
In the latter case, the law infringed upon the way the two transactional orders articulated traditionally.
These women infringed cultural norms, played out their ' wickedness ' and exhibited considerable mobility in their search for more meaningful existences.
They must either infringe patents or fail to act on all the medically relevant information they possess (malpractice).
The examples below illustrate this resident's recurrent defence of her self when she felt her rights were being infringed upon.
They detail the ways in which the resulting designs infringe on existing patents, or, more frequently, represent novel solutions to long-standing design problems.
It would be odd to say that a woman's speech rights are infringed just because only the male-initiated divorce ritual is verbal.
All three political systems have experimented with ways to infuse legislative review with normative assessments of whether rights have been infringed.
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