An all-out war between the Shia-led government and Sunni insurgents threatens to embroil Anbar, the western province that is the country's biggest.
By implication, they embroil Mrs Zia's son, Tarique Rahman.
One reason for caution is that a crisis or takeover bid at the other company can embroil the outside directors in even more hours of time devoted to non-executive responsibilities.
Similarly, accountants who discover irregularities may be better off asking management to make minor adjustments, rather than blowing the whistle on a mis-statement that could embroil their firm in costly litigation.The audit industry cites four main factors that counteract this conflict of interest.
But there has all along been a pragmatic cause, too: Libya's Tunisian and Egyptian neighbours, though too fragile to embroil themselves openly in the fray, are strongly behind the rebels and dream of a democratic northern strip of Africa stretching from Morocco to Egypt.
And there is a small but real risk that the stand-off could result in a clash; that a clash could provoke a reprisal; and that tit-for-tat reprisals could become war.In this section Treading water Old brooms Heard in the hutong Blunt words and keen swords ReprintsThis could even, conceivably, embroil America.
If they don't slim down they will be reassigned to other duties.As Gulliver has previously noted, many carriers do not embroil themselves in the issue of their attendants' weight, asking only that they meet the mobility requirements to fulfil their roles safely.
The state-security committee could aim to ensure that factions do not embroil China in disputes abroad that escalate to the central leadership only very late, when much of the damage has been done.The new committees leave Mr Xi with more power than any Chinese leader since Deng.
Arguments over land use embroil the residents of the disputed areas, often along ethnic lines, as well as the officials in their capitals.
To embroil the war with the settlement of such intractable disputes is to give an excuse for prevarication.
It would also be inappropriate, they say, for the world's highest court to embroil itself in such a politicised dispute.
