Word: afoul
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...flying a DC-8 cargo jet from Miami to the Colombian capital, Bogotá, a sprawling city of 5 million in the Andes. The plane was cruising at 24,000 ft., 110 miles or ten minutes from El Dorado International Airport. Then, without warning, Cervero and his aircraft ran afoul of one of nature's most destructive phenomena...
Capt. William Evans, commander of the Brighton and Allston districts, emphasized that although the BPD is eager to implement greater campus outreach and orientation in order to educate students about running afoul of the law, they would also follow through with arrests and warnings...
Putting God in the classroom is clearly illegal, but Discovery Institute strategists believe that even a push for I.D. might run afoul of zealous judges--as it has in Georgia. So the institute advocates that schools should continue teaching evolution but also present what West calls "some of the scientific criticism of major parts of the theory...
...chairman, has defended his company's deal. When questioned earlier this year about the possible fallout from Yukos, Browne said: "At present, I would say - and I believe this will continue - that there has been no effect." That ties in with a common theory in Moscow that Khodorkovsky ran afoul of President Putin because he climbed into politics by financing opposition parties in last year's election...
...legal under the terms of the Non Proliferation Treaty, nonetheless have been conducted partly in secret, and certainly give Iran the capacity to create weapons-grade fissile material. Washington suspects Iran is playing for time, cutting deals for conditional suspensions of its enrichment program in order to avoid falling afoul of the international community, but nonetheless nurturing the intent - and, partly in secret, partly in the open, the means - to pursue nuclear weapons. The Europeans see the issues as more complex, with Iraq clearly putting in place the means to pursue a nuclear option, but not yet irrevocably committed...