How to Use fall/run afoul of in a Sentence

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• Levi’s claims the defendants have committed both federal and state trademark infringement, as well as run afoul of federal counterfeiting laws.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Since then, the wolves have roamed and run afoul of ranchers whose livestock has been killed.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 31 July 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
• Do those donations fall afoul of Times guidelines in rule or in spirit?
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 July 2024
• Rosen insisted that doing so would run afoul of the law and the Constitution.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
• 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
• To fall afoul of the king can be swiftly lethal, and the king has spies everywhere, overseen by his utterly sinister chief of police, Reynie.
  — Samuel Ashworth, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• 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
• Biden is a pro-labor president, while Tesla is non-union and has run afoul of federal labor laws.
  — Mackenzie Sigalos,rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
• But some of the businesses have run afoul of the law, even as states such as New Mexico have legalized marijuana.
  — Emily Feng, NPR, 24 June 2024
• 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
• The case alleges the restrictions violate the teachers’ First Amendment rights and run afoul of a federal civil-rights law.
  — Dara Kam, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
• People who run afoul of the sanctions may themselves be exposed to designation.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 May 2024
• 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
• Durant’s special vehicle investment setup keeps him from holding any part of Arctos’ NBA assets, which would have run afoul of league rules.
  — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024