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  1. run afoul ofverb

    To become entangled in; to run aground on.

  2. run afoul ofverb

    To contravene

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of run afoul of in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of run afoul of in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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  1. Margaret Stock:

    The administration is deporting as many criminal aliens as possible for the numbers, but it does n’t take into account military service, most people also don’t understand how complicated immigration law really is and how easy it is to run afoul of these complex laws. Making matters worse, Margaret Stock said, is that defendants in deportation cases are not automatically given attorneys and often ca n’t afford to hire their own, resulting in many being wrongfully deported. Any lawful permanent resident, veteran or not, can be deported upon conviction of a crime that falls under the extremely broad umbrella of a Crime Involving Moral Turpitude. This can be either a misdemeanor or felony, and typically includes anything from assault, fraud and perjury to robbery, theft and bribery. The rulings are often viewed by immigration lawyers as arbitrary and the immigration code now includes scores of petty offenses listed alongside the severe ones, all punishable by deportation. Still, the federal government is very deliberate in its review of cases involving veterans, insisted Gillian Christensen, spokeswoman for the U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement( ICE).

  2. Philip Wallach:

    Supreme Court's not Supreme Court a very clear doctrine, there's not a great sense of just how badly [ agencies ] have to be stretching the statute to run afoul of Supreme Court.

  3. Lauri Myllyvirta:

    So far, the government seems to be walking a line of maintaining friendly relationships with Russia without encouraging or directing Chinese firms to increase business with the country, and discouraging anything that might run afoul of the sanctions imposed on China, this line does mean that China's imports from Russia are likely to grow simply on market basis, as other buyers move to embargo Russian fossil fuels.

  4. Roy Gutterman:

    The answer to this is not punishment, which would run afoul of the First Amendment because this involves a public university. The answer is to counter the speech and confront the speech. This could be the subject of campus-wide discussions.

  5. Lindsey Graham:

    You'll run afoul of the Judiciary Committee. If I were you, I wouldn't do that, director Comey, trying to give you a little advice here.

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