He also accused Obama of impinging on religious liberty by requiring faith-based employers to provide contraception in their insurance plans.

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The analysis suggests that foreign multinational corporations promoting genetically modified cottonseed in India are impinging on the rights of small farmers in India.

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Perhaps ethical lapses tend to occur most often in senior executives because of new and different combinations of forces that are impinging on them.

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"We can do a great deal without in any way imposing on and impinging on the rights of the Second Amendment, " Mr. Biden said in public comments.

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So, too, Diskin admitted that the Shin Bet was loath to aggressively pursue the investigation because its officers didn't want to be accused of impinging on freedom of the press.

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When challenged over whether they were impinging on the judiciary's independence, the politicians took refuge in the defence that the "perception" is widely held within their community so ought to be addressed.

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He said he had first experienced "something impinging on his consciousness" as part of a Christian Missionary Society (CMS) scheme to Kenya during his gap year between school and university when he was not a practising Christian.

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