The phrase "are afoot with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is in progress or happening, often in a somewhat formal or literary context.
Example: "Changes are afoot with the new policy that will affect all employees."
Alternatives: "are underway with" or "are in progress with".
Talks are afoot with America Online to build a Europe-wide alliance.
More improvements are afoot, with a new Asian cultural center under construction.
Possible significant changes in the Australian Museum are afoot, with the director of the Museum for the last 23 years, Dr Des Griffin, is retiring this September.
Further developments are afoot with On-the-Rig (OTR) simulators that allow self-learning in the actual location.
All concerned, in any case, should pull back the lens -- from Israel and Palestine, where so much attention is focused, to the vast region around that tiny place, where changes are afoot with profound implications for Palestinians and Israelis.
The game is afoot, with the natural resources and potential wealth of countries like Ukraine, Turkey and Brazil as the prize.
Supporters of a moratorium worry that teething problems with the tests may undermine support for another Bush hobby-horse, accountability.Something similar is afoot with charter schools.
A strong hint that change was afoot with its stack-raking system was dropped by Ms. Brummel at a recent dinner for senior Microsoft managers.
When he arrived in 1964 major redevelopment was afoot, with hundreds of Victorian terraced houses with outside lavatories being demolished to give way to council flats, a shopping mall and a multi-storey car park.
He asks, "What's afoot with effete?" and takes us to its source -- Latin for "worn out by bearing children" -- to its confusion with effeminate and elite and finally to its primary sense of "exhausted, worn out, ineffective".
The "Great Game" (Anglo-Russian rivalry in central Asia, including the territory now known as AfPak), is afoot, with memories of the second Anglo-Afghan war (1878-81) still vivid.
