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run afoul of

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run afoul of somebody/something (slightly formal)
to act in a way not allowed by rules or the law fall afoul of somebody/something Rodman ran afoul of the team's rules and was kept out of the next game. He ran afoul of his supervisor, who complained to the mayor about his work.
See also: run


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00 Hardcover JC599 Human rights advocates and conflict resolution practitioners may have the same goals but they make different assumptions, apply different methodologies, and have different institutional constraints and therefore often run afoul of each other.
Short of posting border agents at every crossing - a move likely to run afoul of interstate commerce rules, to say nothing of basic freedoms - it's hard to see how such information could be gathered.
The amendments appear to run afoul of a July 2008 Constitutional Court ruling restating that any licensing regime for public assemblies is unconstitutional, HRW said in its letter addressed to the President.
 
 
 
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