Examples of use of run afoul
1. This happens all too often when individuals run afoul of high–ranking officials. «
2. Government can run afoul of that prohibition in two principal ways.
3. Their cousins _ children of Bush‘s brother Jeb, Florida‘s governor _ have run afoul of the law, too.
4. But some efforts have run afoul of the continuing Taliban insurgency.
5. One hopes they do not run afoul of the authorities once again.