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• Amon had run afoul of a space-debris storm and the damage had required a replating of half his nose. The Ship Who Sang
• But American doctors whose patients run afoul of a duck, macaw, parrot, goose, turkey or chicken will be able to select from nine codes for each animal, notes George Alex, an official at the Advisory Board Co., a health-care research firm. Walked Into a Lamppost? Hurt While Crocheting? Help Is on the Way
• She'd run afoul of her masters, trying to keep Commander Bell-Fairfax herefrom getting killed. The Life of the World to Come
• So to say that a single sentence in the 14th amendment operates as some sort of compressed zip file that clearly and lucidly by its terms overrides whatever in the Constitution appears to run afoul of more modern ideas of the political compact is ludicrous. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s New View of Confirmation Hearings?
• So Derek Jeter has apparently run afoul of another one of his gabby Yankee bosses, Hank Steinbrenner—not for an incendiary comment or an off-field indiscretion never that! Extreme Makeover: The Derek Jeter Edition
• So to say that a single sentence in the 14th amendment operates as some sort of compressed zip file that clearly and lucidly by its terms overrides whatever in the Constitution appears to run afoul of more modern ideas of the political compact is ludicrous. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s New View of Confirmation Hearings?
• But such newfound resolve on the part of Arab officials is likely to run afoul to the old-fashioned norms that still determine the Middle East's diplomatic contours. Syria Rebuke Roils Mideast
• This was not the first time that Gadhafi, who goes by the name Hannibal, had run afoul of foreign authorities. The Shadow Market
• You could run afoul with your business partner though you had planned on being friends or married for life or someone might want out, even though there's no exit plan.
• Fidelity National's practices, the lawsuit contends, run afoul of bankruptcy-court rules requiring the disclosure of fees and ethics rules banning fee-splitting by lawyers, a practice in which law firms pay for client referrals. Fidelity National Is Sued Over Fees