Word: afoul
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Cantabrigians have cried afoul in recent weeks after a property reassessment left some residents facing higher property tax rates, in some instances nearly double those of last year. Councillors said the controversy has highlighted the inequity between tax burdens for residents and their wealthy scholastic neighbors...
...chairman, has defended his company's deal. "At present, I would say--and I believe this will continue--that there has been no effect" on BP's Russian venture from Yukos, he said earlier this year. 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...
...Hanawa, also focuses on environmental details, but inside instead of out. As Fanfare/Ponent Mon's most interesting nouvelle manga book, it stands out mostly through the originality of its subject: an autobiography of the author's three years spent in the Japanese prison system. A manga artist who ran afoul of Japan's strict gun laws, Hanawa began serving time in 1995. Far from being a self-righteous polemic about injustice or the cruelty of incarceration, "Doing Time" instead seems to delight in recounting the details of life behind bars...
...continuity of the status quo is paramount, and anything smacking of the impolite or the newfangled runs afoul of protocol, which proscribes that forbidden by precedent, such as tanning on the docks, as well as anything that peeves Kummer...
Chad Tilbury, the director of worldwide Internet enforcement at the Motion Picture Association of America, said a program like Wirehog could run a afoul of copyright laws...