Word: afoul
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...silence takes its toll. With no acceptable outlet for their rage or grief, children often cause trouble in school. Boys, especially, may run afoul of the police. Some teenagers turn to indiscriminate sex or shooting drugs -- as though they are daring the AIDS virus to do to them what it did to their parents...
Regulations already on the books give consumers the right to have their names removed from telemarketers' lists. But an effort to ban recorded sales pitches has run afoul of free-speech protections. After Congress in 1991 prohibited the use of autodialers that delivered taped messages, an Oregon chimney sweep challenged the measure in federal court. Three months ago, he won a ruling that struck down the law; the FCC is expected to appeal...
...racketeering statutes also offer the government a second crack at trying Nosair for the murder of Kahane without running afoul of the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy. Many people, including the judge in the case, were outraged when a state jury convicted Nosair of gun possession but acquitted him of the murder itself. It is a well-established principle that the same act can be prosecuted twice if it violates the laws of different "sovereignties." And though murder as such is not a federal crime, killing someone to further a racketeering conspiracy, as Nosair is accused of doing...
Richard Stallman's suggests using only "free" software to stay on the moral high ground, helping your neighbors without running afoul of the law. "Free," in this context, does not necessarily mean without charge; software users should certainly expect to pay for diskettes and manuals. But since this kind of software is free from copyright restrictions, owners can make hundreds of duplicates for friends who want copies...
...sniffs out news much faster than that: he sketched the shape of Clinton's program just a few days after the Inauguration. He realized Clinton would shy away from taxing the carbon content of fuel, for example, after asking the President's advisers whether they were willing to run afoul of Senate Appropriations chairman Robert Byrd, the powerful West Virginia Democrat whose state mines carbon-rich coal. "If you go over the options yourself and think about the difficulty of getting anything through Congress, you can see what questions to ask, and what's likely to happen," Goodgame says. "That...