BAE announced this week that the former lord chief justice, Lord Woolf no less, had been ensnared into "heading an inquiry into the company's operations and ethical practices", but he had been warned off al-Yamamah, presumably because it is considered beyond the power of whitewash.
And police are less likely to get ensnared in the kind of scandal now enveloping Oakland.
The goal was to help them stay in school, where they would be less likely to become ensnared in the sex trade.
Less romantically, they ensnare the enrollment numbers used to help determine which faculties and departments get funding and attention from the powers that be.
Fishermen have been prohibited from intentionally harvesting young bluefin tuna since 1982 but surface long lines, which can stretch 30 miles wide in commercial fishing attempts to catch less threatened fish, ensnare hundreds of thousands of pounds of bluefin tuna each year, Pew said.
While it remained to be seen how her criminal case might play out, the litany of bold-faced names ensnared made the whole thing seem less like an elaborate scam by some kind of criminal genius and more like an indictment of elite culture.
With the president's poll numbers down, and the Republican majority ensnared in ethical controversy, things look much less like a once-a-generation realignment.
Olafson, while exempt from the overt racism and sexual predation of most whites, becomes ensnared in a complex tangle of bribes and illegal financial transactions, which he decides is no less corrupt than Sweden - the difference being in the candour of it.
But it soon became ensnared.
Subsequent events ensnared both men.
These quirky ornaments have ensnared us.
