Sentence examples for embroiled it from inspiring English sources

But while "42," Brian Helgeland's new film about Robinson, gestures toward the complicated and painful history in which its subject was embroiled, it belongs, like most sports biopics, in the first category.

Britain, with its listening center, the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, is one of few countries that has anything to match American abilities, and its participation in electronic surveillance has embroiled it in the Snowden uproar and in a wider discussion over the balance between security and privacy.

Among its effects would have been a far-reaching redistribution of income, a fact that promptly embroiled it in controversy.

But in 1984 he embroiled it in a publicized dispute when he did not renew the contract of Michael Smuin as artistic director.

WellPoint Inc. revealed Friday that it boosted its chief executive's compensation 51% last year, even as the health insurance giant prepared massive rate increases in California that embroiled it in a national controversy over skyrocketing health insurance costs.

Now the church is using a tactic that could cripple SNAP by embroiling it in costly litigation in which it is not a party.

During the greater part of the 18th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth remained an insignificant pawn ruled by a succession of Saxons who tended to embroil it in their dynastic struggles in Germany.

In March of last year, Steve Penny resigned as president of U.S.A. Gymnastics, as the governing body began to grapple with the sexual assault scandal that would embroil it in the coming months.

It accused him of seeking to "destabilise" the party and "embroil it in factionalism".

It seeks to intimidate American allies, warning Japan that security ties with the United States or collaboration on missile defense will embroil it in potential military conflict with China.

A disclosure rule is a perfect marker, as support of it will demonstrate an awareness of the risk inherent in political spending that can threaten a company's bottom line by embroiling it in hot-bottom political issues.