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adverb
In a state of collision or entanglement.
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A former general counsel for the Federal Election Commission (FEC), he noted that the NRA had run afoul of the law years ago for transferring funds to its lobbying arm.
But according to the law, both as written and as interpreted in the case, an employer runs afoul of Gina even if it never receives – let alone acts upon – genetic information.
When asked recently if a super PAC would run afoul of the independence rules by running ads that featured a candidate, were "fully co-ordinated" with his campaign, relied on his website for inspiration and were intended to win him re-election, the FEC could not decide.
Mentions of "Hong Kong police" and any posts with a #HongKong hashtag fell afoul of the censors.
Construction in the centre of town augurs even more vast shopping malls, and a high-tech industrial park is being developed on the edge of town.Southwest China was once rather a backwater: people who fell afoul of the rulers in the capital were exiled here.
Pushing for bold action on the currency, however, is likely to run afoul of "conservative interests", says Thant Myint-U, a historian.
A 2009 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which includes Kentucky, said that as long as such programmes endorse "all qualified applicants", they endorse "none of them, and accordingly [do not] run afoul of the federal or state religion clauses".
A bank might run afoul of privacy laws as a result, Mr Vonder Heide says.
Ali Babacan, the economy czar widely credited for years of robust growth and fiscal prudence, and other party heavyweights, who have fallen afoul of Mr Erdogan, may well defect to the Gul camp.Another unknown is how the Kurds will use their stellar performance at the polls.
As the state becomes less important as an employer and a provider of goods and services, the party also matters a little less, particularly in the cities until someone runs afoul of it.
Whatever they might think of the Cuban embargo, banks around the world do not want to run afoul of antiterrorism laws.In 2004 UBS, a Swiss bank, paid a $100m fine (without admitting any liability) for providing new banknotes to Cuba and Iran.
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