How to Use fall/run afoul of in a Sentence

fall/run afoul of

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  • Now the 24-year-old singer seems to have run afoul of a rival drug gang.
    — Wire Services, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The plaintiffs say Penn has run afoul of the Civil Rights Act.
    — Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Clubs that do run afoul of the law won’t get citations right away.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Moreno stands in a long line of Chicago alderman who have run afoul of the law.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2021
  • The onlookers just watched the raptor try to pick off a duckling and run afoul of the mother duck.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Viking's Orion is the second cruise ship to fall afoul of New Zealand officials in the past month.
    — CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But those who seek to run afoul of Medicare/Medicaid do so at their own peril.
    — Jeff Gorke, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • And the council says policies like those enacted last year in eight states run afoul of those standards.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • According to the report, Guy said this could run afoul of state law given the type of precinct paper that was approved.
    — Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The council says policies such as those enacted last year in eight states run afoul of those standards.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Unfortunately, even the most diligent of hikers can run afoul of this threat.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023
  • Bacon threw out the idea of Austin giving service members unpaid leave to ensure the policy does not run afoul of the Hyde Amendment.
    — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
  • But Rau-Lehmann, 23, didn’t want to run afoul of the rules, and there’s already plenty of nervous chatter among the Swift fan base about whether people standing up to dance will block anyone’s view.
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Lake is only the latest Republican to fall afoul of Petty and his estate.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Some whistleblower lawyers are encouraging more reporting of any agreement that might fall afoul of the spirit of the law.
    — Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The new laws have been closely-watched by the music industry, over concerns that aspects of concerts could run afoul of broad new restrictions.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Even the most sensible public safety laws might fall afoul of NRA lawsuits and right-wing judges claiming knowledge of colonial-era laws.
    — Michael Waldman, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2023
  • These tools drive viewer engagement and spending, and if such tools run afoul of Twitch’s new ad rules, GDQ would have to change some of the core elements that make its events so successful.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 7 June 2023
  • So a clone that copied the user interface, layout, and other design elements of Wardle's version might still fall afoul of the law.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2022
  • To succeed, an FTC case would need to explain how Amazon's business practices run afoul of antitrust law first passed a century ago.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 28 July 2023
  • At the direction of the library board, staff members have been going through all books in the teen section for the past several months and moving those that run afoul of board policy.
    — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2023
  • There’s also the question of how Unity plans on tracking installs and whether or not such tools run afoul of government privacy laws.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2023
  • By teaming up with Niron, GM is making a long-term bet that the magnets can eventually help supplement the need for Chinese parts that may run afoul of the tax credit rules.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Now for those who run afoul of the law there is a program operating in Fort Worth, Texas, meant to put them on a path toward rehabilitation.
    — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The answer is Don Hankey, a subprime car loan billionaire who has run afoul of regulators.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • At least one billionaire appears to have run afoul of those real estate rules, according to tax experts.
    — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 26 July 2023
  • The lawyer and human rights activist Arnon Nampa is serving two consecutive four-year terms for speech acts that ostensibly fall afoul of the law.
    — Paul Kreitman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, the Combine thus seems to run afoul of the ADA’s prohibition against pre-employment medical exams.
    — Chris Deubert, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Regulators would have to prove the mergers don't just raise prices but also run afoul of the law by suppressing competition.
    — Samantha Liss, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Hagia Sophia is hardly the first historic religious site to fall afoul of modern politics.
    — Washington Post, 13 July 2020

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