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Example sentences for: afoul

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Later, Baker ran afoul of President Andrew Johnson for having allegedly set up his own espionage network within the White House.
Negotiated rate or service changes also may run afoul of the substantive standards prescribed for rates and mail classifications in the Reorganization Act.
The implicit reason is, once again, that anything the federal government does runs afoul of the conservative dogma, which says that education is an exclusively local responsibility.
To fall afoul of the tiniest law or custom is to issue orgy-invitations to the authorities.
Sani Abacha fell afoul of a fatal heart attack--one key element, apparently, in his nation's constitutional system of checks and balances.