What's the difference between afoul and entanglement?

Afoul


Definition:

  • (adv. & a.) In collision; entangled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said similar “name and shame” legislation had run afoul of the first amendment and that the rule may be unconstitutional.
  • (2) But some legal experts believe government officials can’t stop all marriage to avoid wedding same-sex couples without running afoul of the constitution.
  • (3) The Justice Department argues that the law still runs afoul of the Voting Rights Act but now faces the higher threshold of proving intentional discrimination to prevail in court.
  • (4) Unfortunately, that assumption may be running afoul of, or fouling up, the way in which most investors construct their portfolios.
  • (5) Torture was rife; officials and entrepreneurs who had run afoul of Bo were targeted, their assets seized and redistributed.
  • (6) Governor Bush believes harnessing innovation and fostering technology can help us grow at 4% once again.” Clinton’s tough talk was not reserved just for Republicans – sounding ever the progressive, the former first lady also vowed to go after individuals and corporations on Wall Street that run afoul of the law.
  • (7) If there is one, we don’t want to run afoul of it.
  • (8) Critics have accused Watson of being a pirate or even eco-terrorist because of his aggressive exploits and he has run afoul of the powers that be before.
  • (9) The sorority runs afoul of new dean of students Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis, getting back to her horror roots) who forces Kappa to accept any pledges who apply or else they will lose their charter.
  • (10) Plans by supporters of marijuana legalisation for "smoke ins" in Vancouver were nixed by local health officials who said they fell afoul of cigarette smoking laws and a provision on the new regulations that only permit the use of marijuana in private.
  • (11) Romney has, throughout his presidential campaign, espoused positions that are to the right of the median American voter: he wants to cut taxes on the wealthy; he would fundamentally transform Medicare; he wants to repeal Obamacare fully; and his position on choice and immigration run afoul of women and Hispanic voters.
  • (12) He says that definition leaves out legally married same-sex couples, and runs afoul of a June supreme court ruling.
  • (13) Both Ferozi and Farnood spent time in Moscow in the 1980s, running businesses that occasionally ran afoul of the criminal underworld.
  • (14) Once Russia's largest portfolio investor, and one of President Vladimir Putin's biggest foreign fans, Browder appeared to have run afoul of the Kremlin after picking up stakes in some of the country's largest state-run companies.
  • (15) While the company has run afoul of US law for its lackadaisical approach to questions of real estate ownership, it has in Cuba an opportunity to start fresh with a government newly open to American businesses.
  • (16) Prime minister Ahmed Davutoglu, a key Erdogan ally, decried the chaos, which also included attacks on a number of offices belonging to newspapers that had fallen afoul of the AKP.
  • (17) They reviewed them several months ago, concluded that, in fact, there was nothing afoul in terms of the process that we had used.
  • (18) Although it is now legal under state law for anyone over 21 to possess up to one ounce of the drug, there is still no legal means to buy it, and officials were grappling with how to administer the new law without falling afoul of national legislation.
  • (19) To achieve this "single sign-on" the company needed to consolidate all its policies or risk running afoul of trade and privacy regulators.
  • (20) Indeed, these youths at risk most frequently may be identified and helped when they run afoul of the law and enter the judicial system.

Entanglement


Definition:

  • (n.) State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Was all the entanglement research done in the meantime, including Einstein's, unscientific metaphysics?
  • (2) Americans Stuart Freedman and Jon Clauser and French physicist Alain Aspect were the first to verify quantum entanglement experimentally.
  • (3) The commonest causes of death were pneumonia and entanglement in fishing gear.
  • (4) Monoamniotic twin pregnancy involves a heavy risk of fatal umbilical cord entanglement.
  • (5) Even extraembryonic membranes can form strands of tissue that can entangle the delicate developing foot plate, and calcaneovalgus deformities could conceivably be established.
  • (6) SEM and TEM examinations suggested that dentinal collagen exposed by the etching but not entangled and impregnated by poly (4-META-co-MMA) easily deteriorated by water during the longer immersion.
  • (7) These difficulties are not easy to approach as much as psychological and organic factors may be entangled.
  • (8) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.
  • (9) Nuclei appear to be entangled in the channel system and move in an unusual, rolling fashion.
  • (10) The web of human entanglement resulting from the cry "rape" may twist and disrupt the lives of the persons involved.
  • (11) The congestive cases were characterized by decreased and disdarrayed myofibrils (loose myofibril disorientation), wheras the hypertrophic cases by abundant myofibrils characteristically entangled with each other (tight myofibril disorientation).
  • (12) Scanning electron microscopy indicates that these aggregates are surface microvilli entangled with attached EPEC.
  • (13) During a visit to Britain before he launched his campaign, Walker was so anxious to avoid awkward entanglements that he refused to say whether he believed in evolution, an incident that set of a chain of increasingly controversial comments on social issues.
  • (14) Although monoamniotic twins frequently die related to cord knotting, sonographic visualization of cord entanglement does not imply impending demise.
  • (15) Deposits consisted of dense aggregations of randomly entangled spicules spreading within bundles of collagen fibrils.
  • (16) It would be a little surprising if TNC didn't invest in fossil fuels, given its various other entanglements with the sector.
  • (17) Umbilical cord entanglement was found in 34% of 555 women in labour.
  • (18) Grieve said it was crucial that, under the British constitution, the monarch was not seen to be biased towards any political party, or to become entangled in political controversies.
  • (19) The gel network in mucus may not be infinite, but only an effectively entangled system of very large molecules.
  • (20) Thermally reversible aqueous gels (crystallized from an under-cooled, rubbery melt) are described by a "fringed micelle" structural model for a three-dimensional polymer network, composed of microcrystalline junction zones crosslinking plasticized amorphous regions of flexible-coiled, entangled chain segments.

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