infringe on/upon something

Examples of infringing

infringing

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

In the end, the ministry was intermittently criticized for enriching minority entrepreneurs and infringing on the privileges of minority vested interest.
The military is wary of the religious public infringing on its turf.
What is counterposed to the right against paternalistic interference is always the good of the individual whose right we are considering infringing.
The latter will put collective considerations before individual autonomy, ready to adopt more ruthlessly interventionist strategies even if this means infringing personal liberty.
As with any of the traditional men's liberties, women's reproductive liberty should be limited by the risk of infringing on the liberties of another person.
His only offence and a 'very venial' one, was infringing territorial waters, for which he would suffer by confiscation if caught.
If people have high inviolability in certain respects, then the rights expressing that inviolability will specifically exclude certain factors as reasons for infringing the rights.
Since a harm is merely a setback to an interest, there are ways of setting back a person's interest without infringing on a claim.
One tendency, as we have been arguing, was towards a scientific authoritarianism, extending bureaucratic control and infringing local rights in often overtly repressive ways.
Illusion and reality tend to merge into a single theatrical unit, infringing upon the theatre's already fragile hold on illusion and lessening the psychological distance between action on- and offstage.
Fighting contagious diseases has always prompted the question of how the state should shoulder its responsibilities as defender of public health without infringing on civil liberties.
New settlement schemes are being planned and implemented in the western lowlands, directly infringing traditional pastoral areas.
These grounds will be present to greater or lesser degrees depending upon the nature of the right and the nature of the rule infringing the right.
You are infringing a licence, to court!
She suggests we use the term "infringing" in this sense and contrast infringing a right with violating it, the latter implying that the action in question is morally wrong.
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