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- noun Plural form of
impingement .
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Examples
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President Barack Obama mounted an aggressive push for a climate bill that passed the House in June, feeding a growing conservative backlash against initiatives, such as the health care overhaul and automaker bailouts, that activists called impingements on personal freedom.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Until the last couple of months, no one realized how sick he was, and so his resistance to impingements on his independence was understandable.
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Until the last couple of months, no one realized how sick he was, and so his resistance to impingements on his independence was understandable.
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The force across these joints increases up to eight times their weight during competition, so more weight means a higher likelihood of meniscus tears, hip labral tears and impingements.
Will Cholesterol Kill Baseball? Matthew Futterman 2012
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Finn's right foot lands parallel to the crease, perfect, straight from the text book, rather than pointing down the pitch, a favoured and in my view erroneous modern method that can result in the ankle impingements that have blighted some bowlers.
Believe the hype – Steven Finn is a raw talent to get excited about 2010
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Some of the proposed changes include making the registration of seed varieties compulsory and increasing the penalties for impingements.
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Some of the proposed changes include making the registration of seed varieties compulsory and increasing the penalties for impingements.
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Some of the proposed changes include making the registration of seed varieties compulsory and increasing the penalties for impingements.
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You know, abhorrent impingements on American sovereignty that would allow “international bureaucrats” to tell Americans what to do.
Is There A Pill For Regressive-Induced, Hypocrisy-Produced, Chronic Nausea? 2009
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But when the economy gets bad and you have things like the housing crash and foreclosure crisis, it is generally due to government intervention, impingements on economic freedom, etc.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Heather Wilhelm Responds to her Critics 2009
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