infringe on/upon something

Examples of infringed

infringed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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'.
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.
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.
The examples below illustrate this resident's recurrent defence of her self when she felt her rights were being infringed upon.
It would be odd to say that a woman's speech rights are infringed just because only the male-initiated divorce ritual is verbal.
This often happens in time of war when the rights of noncombatants as well as of one's own fellow citizens are severely infringed.
Other cash was used to pay fines incurred from having infringed local laws governing the management of communal land and relations between farmers.
Perhaps too much syncopation from the rhythm section infringed on 'danceability'.
The benefits caused by the physician's act do not alter the fact that these rights were infringed.
Now this does not entail that personal sovereignty is ever justifiably infringed, because the rights that comprise such sovereignty might not include property rights.
It is not the workers whose self-ownership is infringed upon.
Instead, they are usually civil in nature and occur when the interests of a large number of socially unimportant people are infringed.
If they do not, their musical identities may easily be infringed upon by others, since pupils cannot evade interpersonal relationships even in the informal site.
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