0 to experience problems, punishment, or harm because you do not obey a rule or disagree with a powerful organization, group, or person: --
In the process, they run afoul a pirate ship and are taken prisoners.
Not surprisingly, he ran afoul of the authorities in 1936 and began writing in a more conservative idiom in order to avoid charges of formalism.
His actions during this time often caused him to run afoul of both ecclesiastical and civil authorities.
However, the work ran afoul of the new censorship law and was not distributed, much of the edition eventually being destroyed.
Trouble follows as they run afoul of the local mob boss.
Ironically, these public-private efforts often took the form of local processing requirements which ultimately ran afoul of the commerce clause.
News content produced for one set of countries by a global media firm could run afoul of censors in an authoritarian regime.
So while her action runs afoul of a standing legal prohibition, in her case the state's punitive hands are tied.
