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Example sentences for: afoul

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For the movie's writer, David McKenna, and director, Tony Kaye, the universe consists of white supremacists and liberals, with no one of note in between; and the protagonist's prison metamorphosis from one pole to the other is the natural consequence of falling afoul of some big Nazi white guys and getting tight with a garrulous, congenial black inmate (Guy Torry) during laundry detail.
"Running afoul of parent company Disney."
Later, Baker ran afoul of President Andrew Johnson for having allegedly set up his own espionage network within the White House.
Many IRS officials say the drop stems from their fear of running afoul of the new niceness laws and getting fired.
But even the compassionate one isn't prepared to run afoul of conservative dogma to the extent of proposing spending tens of billions of additional federal dollars on education.