He had been well pleased and had accepted, but later had refused because of certain dictatorship exercised by the Board, which he felt Infringed on his province of a suitable selection of subjects.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Palmerston had justified these measures on the ground that the British flag had been insulted and our treaty rights Infringed by the Chinese authorities at Canton.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
No amount of pressure would have made him deliberately sanction a wrong; but it did render him a little less wary in watching to see that the right was not Infringed upon.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt