Mr Paterson added the FSA had to be "guarded" about what information it released - "in case the investigations are impinged upon".

BBC: Beef being put through a mincer

Mr Hasan says that the delay has also impinged on his plans to visit Europe for meetings with other musicians and family contacts.

BBC: UK visa delays Pakistan rock star

Here, the principles of autonomy and individual responsibility of a patient, which are part of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, are impinged upon.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

For much of the past three decades, the army managed to confine the guerrillas to remote jungles and mountains, where they impinged little on the economy and national life.

ECONOMIST: Colombia’s trembling peace | The

Questions have also been raised over whether the memorial disturbs the "conversation" among Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson, a presidential trinity whose memorial triangle is now impinged upon by Roosevelt's spread.

CNN: AllPolitics - Remembering Roosevelt

Meanwhile Dutch MEP Bastiaan Belder criticised the EU for attempting to spend money on issues such as education, culture and citizenship, which, he claimed, impinged on the role of national government.

BBC: Budget 2010 debate

Thomas Drake, who worked at the National Security Agency, was threatened with life imprisonment for leaking to the Baltimore Sun unclassified details of a wasteful programme that also impinged on privacy.

ECONOMIST: Government transparency: The best disinfectant | The

In recent years religious ideas have increasingly impinged on public life in ways unacceptable to New Atheist rationalism, from arguments over the teaching of "intelligent design" in schools to gay marriage and restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.

CNN: The rise of the 'New Atheists'

In these circumstances, it appears that you failed to ask even the most basic questions about who was involved and the handling of an operation with the obvious potential to create considerable controversy and undermine public confidence - questions which would not have impinged in any way on the police carrying out a proper investigation.

BBC: In full: Dominic Grieve's letter