How To Use Embroil In A Sentence
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The National team is currently embroiled in an exhibition tour in B.C. versus Japan.
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The National team is currently embroiled in an exhibition tour in B.C. versus Japan.
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Unfortunately for both, their careers took a nosedive after they both became embroiled in controversy.
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Gosh, it's over a year since I read The Moving Toyshop; here Gervase Fen is embroiled in a mystery of murder and espionage in a West Country cathedral town in about 1940.
January Books 27) Holy Disorders, by Edmund Crispin
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Santa's national secretariat is embroiled in several disputes with other Santa hospitals throughout the country.
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Since a criminal investigation is involved here she must be most careful to ensure that she is truthful at all times about what has happened and that she does not become embroiled in cobbling up an untrue explanation of events which might later become the subject of evidence under Oath in the Crown Court.
Archive 2008-11-30
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Yunupingu, who is reportedly embroiled in a dispute with family members over the dispersal of mining royalties and grants, gave no details about the mine proposal or how it would be financed.
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Any hostilities could result in retaliation and further embroil U.N. troops in fighting.
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The United Nations was reluctant to get its forces embroiled in civil war.
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The chairman of the football club embroiled in cricket's match-fixing scandal has apparently taken his own life.
Times, Sunday Times
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The play is set in a country embroiled in an ongoing war, where one woman dares to stand out against popular opinion.
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The attraction of these materials lies in their rich detail about the lives of men and women embroiled in marital litigation.
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The leadership is currently embroiled in a factional dispute so bitter that the contending groups can barely meet in the same room.
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Wildgoose promptly falls in love with a fascinating damsel-errant, Julia Townsend; and the various adventures, religious, picaresque, and amatory, are embroiled and disembroiled with very fair skill in character and fairer still in narrative.
The English Novel
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In Pakistan, the issue has become embroiled in widespread anti-Americanism and suspicions, fanned by the Pakistani media and used for political advantage, that U.S. spies and intelligence contractors are secretly operating in the country.
U.S.-Pakistan relations strained further with case of jailed diplomat
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The false claims advanced by the Bush administration that Saddam was building up a serious WMD program and that his regime had given training in “poisons and deadly gases” to al-Qaeda associates in Iraq were the apogee of this hysteria, as they helped to embroil the United States in the disastrous Iraq War.
The Longest War
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Subsequently they become embroiled in the future of the country - through love, money or political idealism.
Times, Sunday Times
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If peacekeepers are deployed before peace is established they risk becoming fatally embroiled in the conflict and exploited by the warring factions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both men become embroiled in a chilling conspiracy designed to destroy the power of the andat once and for all.
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
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And thus I found myself once again embroiled in the Where's The Change debate, despite having gone through it with two other teenagers.
When a Child 'Forgets' to Give You Change
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Teams who concede more free kicks often do that because they are fouled more and thus embroiled in dirty games.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed the embroilment of India, Poland and so on, is clearly a step along that path.
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Until recently it has been embroiled in a dispute with the England and Wales institute that wanted to restyle itself as simply the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
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After a few years embroiled in ambivalence, empathy, concern and more, the changes medication, consoling and more, can have on this person “at times” seemingly leaves them like an empty vessel where life, as we know it, has just been sucked out of them, and yes, they are indeed slower.
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One of Britain's largest employers groups is embroiled in a row over the election of its new leader.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was in this capacity that he became embroiled in a damaging series of scandals.
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He had barely taken his place when he was embroiled in a row with an opponent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Too often, advisers have become embroiled in mis-selling scandals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four years later he found himself both a millionaire and embroiled in the ugliest of financial scandals.
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However, reaching the solution is a complex journey that has embroiled native communities and their non-native neighbours for the past century.
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An archaeologist from the Threshers Verity Auger becomes embroiled in interstellar intrigue when she discovers a duplicate Earth, held in stasis by alien technology, has become active and in fact can now be visited.
REVIEW: Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds
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If peacekeepers are deployed before peace is established they risk becoming fatally embroiled in the conflict and exploited by the warring factions.
Times, Sunday Times
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I never meant to get embroiled in anything too deeply.
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But now city officials find themselves embroiled in a battle with a fierce critic of the law: the Roman Catholic Church.
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So keeping a low profile avoids getting embroiled in political controversy, which is the proper province of the elected Diet.
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The company has been embroiled in internal disputes for years, and its troubles have included fiscal problems, various legal actions and deep-set rifts between executives, directors and members.
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The vote yesterday and today is a last major test of Berlusconi's popularity before his term runs out in 2013, and comes as the flamboyant Italian leader is embroiled in legal and sex scandals.
The Australian | News |
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After leaving United in acrimonious circumstances Tevez played a significant and controversial part in last season's derby matches, scoring in both legs of the Carling Cup semi-final as well as becoming embroiled in a row with Gary Neville that led to the Football Association issuing a warning to both players.
Injured Carlos Tevez flies to Argentina and may miss Manchester derby
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Researchers who speak plainly are likely to find themselves embroiled in controversy and accused of unscientific bias.
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Bozo The Neoclown says: ten to one says eric cantor is the next cancervaturd legislator embroiled in a scandal involving a male prostitute and meth. he has that look.
Think Progress » Cantor backtracks on his bluff, says he’ll show up to health care meeting with Obama.
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Ron Rosenbaum recently wrote something similar about Dmitri Nabokov's reluctance to have his father's legacy embroiled in biographical controversy:
Canonical Writers
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This feeling of dislocation makes him an ideal writer to disembroil this much misunderstood itinerant world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say) but it ended up snowing and I was afraid that, in the event of a fall, Mr. Thurston (coddled, as are all of his countrymen, by free medical care) would find himself hopelessly embroiled in our country's labyrinthine health care system.
Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?
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The Government is embroiled in the economic crisis and the looming election.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had barely taken his place when he was embroiled in a row with an opponent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone who continues to look at the new environment from an outdated perspective will become embroiled in excessive and undue worries.
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Hence the book is embroiled in a number of aporias: between seeing and telling, between self and other, and between event and discourse.
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Teams who concede more free kicks often do that because they are fouled more and thus embroiled in dirty games.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was embroiled in a heated exchange at a public inquiry into controversial plans to build a mosque in his Clitheroe ward.
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Otherwise, the teacher will recommend to the Superintendent that the child be disembroiled from the first grade.
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In 2006 he was embroiled in the cash for honours scandal after being made a Labour life peer and minister for defence procurement.
Times, Sunday Times
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His tweed-clad, mainly male cast of characters roam the countryside and become embroiled in bizarre, nonsensical occurrences.
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He had watched us walk on the moon, and yet remain childishly embroiled in a pitiful and pointless series of military conflicts from which there would emerge no winners.
Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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First, the purpose of the Charming Betsy canon is to avoid the negative “foreign policy implications” of violating the law of nations, and Plaintiffs have offered no reason to believe that their low wages are likely to “embroil [] the nation in a foreign policy dispute.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit
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He knew that even in the dispute respecting the supremacy of Scotland, his Holiness had set up a claim to the kingdom which, in the temper of the times, might perhaps have been deemed superior both to that of Robert Bruce, and that of Edward of England, and he conceived his monarch would give him little thanks for any fresh embroilment which might take place with the Church.
Castle Dangerous
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Ms Munson is embroiled in a bitter row with residents and councillors over plans to convert stables and a garage at Great Easton into a dog training centre.
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Somehow, Dr. Beckett's gotten embroiled with this tart, only she's ten years older than him if she's a day, and she's the wife of a mucky-muck network executive.
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Trust has been eroded by the fact that she has been embroiled in one scandal after another.
Times, Sunday Times
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United meanwhile need to remember that they have too much class to get embroiled in a fight and lose their rags.
The Sun
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But memory can also play tricks with perspective, because you are distanced from some lines of argument and embroiled still in others.
The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
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Fast-moving fun for younger viewers, centring on Lizzie Forbes, whose overworked imagination often embroils her in misunderstandings, muddles and miscellaneous mayhem.
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The default risks are particularly serious for governments that are deeply embroiled in the banking crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, the way she tells it, the fact that she was embroiled in legal action of any kind was enough for film studios to become nervous.
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A Satguru does not embroil the seeker in the dense forest of words and hymns.
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Meanwhile, in real life, the actress was embroiled in a family feud that would have made a chilling whodunnit.
Times, Sunday Times
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He established standards that were remembered with nostalgia when a couple of his successors became embroiled in scandal.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the journey, guests will enjoy a champagne brunch and meet suspicious characters embroiled in the plot.
Times, Sunday Times
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embroiled in the conflict
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Cesc Fábregas's statement mentioned an underlying "respect" for the officials and an all-consuming passion for a club embroiled in the title race, but was less an apology and more an admission that, as he put simply, "so many things are said in the heat of the moment".
Cesc Fábregas risking his and Arsenal's reputation with petty battles | Dominic Fifield
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Our noun "embroilment," which also entered the language in the early 17th century, comes from the same source.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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Teams who concede more free kicks often do that because they are fouled more and thus embroiled in dirty games.
Times, Sunday Times
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Em - is a common prefix, found in words such as embark, embed, embody, emboss, embrace, and embroil.
May « 2009 « Sentence first
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So keeping a low profile avoids getting embroiled in political controversy, which is the proper province of the elected Diet.
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With one, her reputation for chastity and probity was at its height, while the other was embroiled in rumour and vicious innuendo.
ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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If we were going to get embroiled in the search for Moira, they were going to have to pay for the privilege.
DEAD BEAT
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Early in the 17th century, English speakers began using "embroil," a direct adaptation of
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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Any hostilities could result in retaliation and further embroil U.N. troops in fighting.
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My parents are currently embroiled in much the same thing.
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More recently he was embroiled in a row with Darlington's Catholic community over plans to extend two schools.
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The Government is embroiled in the economic crisis and the looming election.
Times, Sunday Times
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And by "embroiled," I mean he has sex with the wife and the mistress.
Archive 2009-09-27
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Taxpayers embroiled in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service may soon get some help.
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The title centers around Faith Connors, an illegal courier who becomes embroiled in Orwellian city politics.
MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
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Ask this question and you might find yourself embroiled in a stooshie.
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Kensington Gardens and embroiled in the strange world of "faeries", was originally a girl but is now played by Femi Oyewole.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Individuals can seldom disembroil personal desires and hopes from their vision of the work.
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Trust has been eroded by the fact that she has been embroiled in one scandal after another.
Times, Sunday Times
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He embroiled himself in their argument.
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O'Brien, who is currently embroiled in a key storyline, said all the cast and crew had been on "tenterhooks" waiting to hear good news.
British Blogs
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Angola was embroiled in a civil war that would rage for another five years.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pair had been embroiled in lengthy legal battles over Daniel, but had reached a shared custody agreement on his care before Kevin's death.
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But the episode shows the risk of the project becoming embroiled in political infighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was also embroiled in a bitter dispute with a Limerick criminal.
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For his first big embroilment after the 1987 stock market crash, the enemies were discernible and all grouped together on one front - low stock prices, financial system illiquidity, and broken confidence.
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With one, her reputation for chastity and probity was at its height, while the other was embroiled in rumour and vicious innuendo.
ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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Many Chinese reacted with alarm to the outburst, mindful of two major incidents in which they were embroiled in the past.
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But memory can also play tricks with perspective, because you are distanced from some lines of argument and embroiled still in others.
The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
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The "action" in which Marlowe always becomes embroiled is fun to read, perhaps even keeps us reading, but for me such action adds little to my perception of him as a character, which is also always being reinforced by the way in which he describes this action to us.
Style in Fiction
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The runanga is in disarray; one group claiming to represent the runanga is embroiled in a scrap with a new group that has fought to get authorities to take notice of its concerns about where the health dollars went.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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Even the Royal Family are embroiled in a hair-scare scandal.
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Matt is then offered a job at a newspaper, moves his family to London and becomes embroiled with a career debaucher called Lawrence and a young, ambitious former colleague, Rachel.
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Ghorbanifar is a storied figure who played a key role in embroiling the Reagan administration in the Iran-Contra affair.
Primary Returns
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The implication is that the writer of such works does the disengaging, disembroiling and disencumbering from experience as we know it, while the author of novels reports faithfully on all our encumbrances.
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United meanwhile need to remember that they have too much class to get embroiled in a fight and lose their rags.
The Sun
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The bailed-out lender was arguably more deeply embroiled in the scandal than its German rival.
Times, Sunday Times
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Too often, advisers have become embroiled in mis-selling scandals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Critics of a no-fly zone say it is an act of war, and could embroil the United States in another conflict in the Arab world on the side of forces whose ultimate intentions are not yet clear.
Two US Senators Urge Intervention in Libya
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She was a prudent woman, that poor mother of mine, and she was afraid of her son's chastising what she called presumption, and thus embroiling himself with the Parliament people.
Stray Pearls
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Contrast that with Big East behemoth U-Conn, embroiled in recruiting controversies.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
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If the Midshipman has not been granted Advance Standing by the beginning of the junior year, he or she will be disembroiled from the program.
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Now is his chance for revenge, as bewitcher and bewitched are embroiled in a turbulent tale of mayhem, magic, and enchantment.
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‘We don't want this thing to end up in some kind of miscalculation that embroils us in a conflict,’ he said.
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Disgraced, he leaves the service of the Fleet Air Arm, only to become embroiled with a German spy in Greece, which gives him a chance to redeem himself.
Guy Ramsey
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The only way to really guarantee of giving the United States a bloody nose would be to kind of embroil it in a larger, regional war.
CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2006
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Meanwhile, in real life, the actress was embroiled in a family feud that would have made a chilling whodunnit.
Times, Sunday Times
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While seeking out and trying to anatomise the strange gardens abandoned in place by Avernus, the Outers' greatest genius, the gene wizard Sri Hong-Owen is embroiled in the plots and counterplots of the family that employs her.
Archive 2010-01-01
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Fayed is embroiled in a dispute with Thurso, whom he accuses of misusing his position to promote a failed businessman.
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Anyway, the complexities are multitudinous and certainly hard to disembroil.
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What follows is his adventure as he travels to Canada and becomes embroiled in the complexities of the politics of the period.
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During the journey, guests will enjoy a champagne brunch and meet suspicious characters embroiled in the plot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trust has been eroded by the fact that she has been embroiled in one scandal after another.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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Hain in the meantime hasn't a clue what's going on and is beginning to realise that any further embroilment in Welsh Labour's campaign will almost certainly ruin what slim chances he had of becoming Deputy PM.
Archive 2007-04-01
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I was reluctant to embroil myself in his problems.
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If peacekeepers are deployed before peace is established they risk becoming fatally embroiled in the conflict and exploited by the warring factions.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Banksy and his crew have stopped bickering with the disbelieving public about factuality for a moment, as they are now embroiled in another dispute, this time with Joachim Levy.
ARTINFO: As Oscar Approaches, Swiss Filmmaker Wants His Name on Banksy's Movie Too
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He had barely taken his place when he was embroiled in a row with an opponent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The brothers got embroiled in a fight - I am not sure what happened.
The Sun
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I have heard enough since I came here, to satisfy me that a cavalier of honour is free to take any part in this civil embroilment whilk he may find most convenient for his own peculiar.
A Legend of Montrose
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The brothers got embroiled in a fight - I am not sure what happened.
The Sun
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The most difficult task has been persuading the arts establishment that this is work to be taken seriously by art collectors and your regular visitor to Tate Modern, that it somehow transcends what we instinctively fear is an art contaminated by its embroilment with other disciplines.
Exploring Science Through Art
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He established standards that were remembered with nostalgia when a couple of his successors became embroiled in scandal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the years, it has been thoroughly embroiled in scandal, controversy, corruption, and misgovernment.
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Toyota's European division saw sales drop 20% to 44,462 vehicles in February from a year earlier, suggesting that the global recall embroiling the world's largest auto maker by sales took its toll.
European Car Sales Rise; Toyota Slumps 20%
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TO COVER an elegant, black-tie Christmas party for Town and Country, New York writer John Kelso (John Cusack) finds himself knee deep in Southern eccentrics -- and embroiled in a murder case.
Southern Discomfort
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We will just throw them into the air and no one will ask again until people are embroiled in litigation.
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He becomes embroiled in a kidnapping caper involving Debbie's sleazy agent, and Jean goes all the way to help Marva get her shot at fame.
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By night he was embroiled in the drawn-out takeover talks.
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It has become embroiled, however, in a distinctly unspiritual row.
Times, Sunday Times
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But however strong his family ties, he is unlikely to get deeply embroiled.
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It is rather sad that the Internet was the only channel to save myself from this media embroilment, but this method is indeed quite effective.
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From Somalia and the Balkans to Iraq, the U.S. military has been embroiled in conflicts that reflect an age-old debate: Can individual agency triumph over deep-seated historical, cultural, ethnic, and economic forces?
Man Versus Afghanistan
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They know what it means to be tiny spots on the map, remembered only if embroiled in a terrible conflict that turns the whole region into a nest of unrest.
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The bailed-out lender was arguably more deeply embroiled in the scandal than its German rival.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yesterday, factions involved with both sides in the dispute became embroiled in violent scuffles outside the court.
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Less than two years after a furore erupted over draughtsmen preparing drawings and plans for planning permission, the Council again finds itself embroiled in controversy as a result of a junior employee carrying out a ‘drawings nixer’.
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The founder of the Clan supposedly wasexiled 1, 500 years ago from Ireland because he was a hothead whom his familydisowned for embroiling them in fights.
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Kuzovkin, embroiled for decades in a hopeless suit for possession of another estate, is overjoyed by the reunion with Olga, whom he, years ago, dandled and indulged with quasi-parental affection.
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When The Sorrow and the Pity was embroiled in its late - 1960s scandal, it too was denounced as unpatriotic.
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However, reaching the solution is a complex journey that has embroiled native communities and their non-native neighbours for the past century.
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There are so many contradictions and paradoxes that you're just embroiled in them all the time.
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We are embroiled in a critical phase for the future of the sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of them offer us poor deals and some are still embroiled in scandals involving tax avoidance or price fixing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The head of a food manufacturer was embroiled in a scandal over dumplings containing spoiled vegetables.
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While seeking out and trying to anatomize the strange gardens abandoned in place by the Outers' greatest genius, Avernus, the gene wizard Sri Hong-Owen is embroiled in the plots and counterplots of the family that employs her.
Books in the Mail (W/E 02/27/2010)
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Recent good work by the team looked light years away and they have now got themselves embroiled in a dogfight that they might struggle to win.
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As the movie's plot gets more embroiled, it becomes less coherent and amusing, climaxing as it does with a massive train derailment, a hostage situation, and a final bit of flimflammery that's truly just nonsensical.
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`Actually, I was embroiled in a golf competition most of the weekend," he admitted.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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A headmaster embroiled in a row over the merger of two independent schools has had bleach thrown in his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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They fully recognize that given Canada's size and dependence on the US economy such a policy could only embroil them in an unwinnable trade war.
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Minerva was recently embroiled in a heated discussion about the merits of cervical screening using smears.
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This approach also kept the church from becoming embroiled in a potentially divisive issue.
Christianity Today
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Too often, advisers have become embroiled in mis-selling scandals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told AP he will not let the abortion issue "embroil" the healthcare reform debate.
Newsmax - Inside Cover
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This approach also kept the church from becoming embroiled in a potentially divisive issue.
Christianity Today
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But now city officials find themselves embroiled in a battle with a fierce critic of the law: the Roman Catholic Church.
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The title centers around American doctor Robert Cath, who boards the Orient Express to escape troubles with the law, only to find himself embroiled in a plot rife with intrigue, treachery, romance, and murder.
Kotaku
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As he gets more deeply embroiled in these situations, he has a lot of tough decisions to face.
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Club members were embroiled in a row over a proposed new clubhouse recently.
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embroiled" the ANCWL -- was the last in a series of incidents that had given rise to their resignations.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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As she starts doing the binding and falls into a business relationship with a rather sleazy bookdealer, she is drawn into a world of underground pornography for the aristocracy, and becomes more and more deeply embroiled.
Archive 2008-07-01
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The bailed-out lender was arguably more deeply embroiled in the scandal than its German rival.
Times, Sunday Times
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There they discover all they had hoped for and more - dinosaurs, a resident Indian tribe, and strange manlike apes who are the Indians' enemies - and they find themselves embroiled in a struggle for survival amongst the three groups.
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If there are a few loose ends to be tidied up on that front, it is nothing compared to the financial mess in which he is embroiled with one of his former clubs.
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Last year, he became embroiled in a Twitter storm when one of his tweets included the word "mong".
He just wants to be loved | Observer profile
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We are embroiled in a critical phase for the future of the sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, they were critical of Mr. Vekselberg's public shyness and his embroilment in a criminal investigation.
Renova Nears Sulzer Takeover
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Attorney John Moses, standing in for Acerra's lawyer, who was said to be in Texas, railed that the Bristol County District Attorney's Office is becoming "embroiled" in a "political" case in Taunton that bears no relevance to the latest nine-year-old allegations.
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He established standards that were remembered with nostalgia when a couple of his successors became embroiled in scandal.
Times, Sunday Times
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And now we are embroiled in another of track and field's endless efforts to get ahead of dopers.
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Too often, advisers have become embroiled in mis-selling scandals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Johnny becomes embroiled in a shady land acquisition deal involving a grasping cleric, a shrewd settled traveller and some mountainy men over a ‘bit of bog which might just be turned into a runway.’
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Teams who concede more free kicks often do that because they are fouled more and thus embroiled in dirty games.
Times, Sunday Times
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From 1967 to 1970, the country was embroiled in a civil war - the consequence of an interethnic power struggle - in which more than a million people died.
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If peacekeepers are deployed before peace is established they risk becoming fatally embroiled in the conflict and exploited by the warring factions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of these embroilments, to the extent they bother anyone, affect not the United States but its allies - and these allies are generally capable of handling the consequences, be it Indonesia and Australia, or the Balkans and Europe.
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United meanwhile need to remember that they have too much class to get embroiled in a fight and lose their rags.
The Sun
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One of Britain's largest employers groups is embroiled in a row over the election of its new leader.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of them offer us poor deals and some are still embroiled in scandals involving tax avoidance or price fixing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The default risks are particularly serious for governments that are deeply embroiled in the banking crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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He became embroiled in a fight with the pair before one of them produced a knife and stabbed him.
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He became embroiled in a dispute with his neighbours.
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Pretty soon he is embroiled in a series of incidents which move fluidly between comedy and tragedy and, at once, draw the audience in.
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She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, still embroiled in her inner turmoil.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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But memory can also play tricks with perspective, because you are distanced from some lines of argument and embroiled still in others.
The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
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Police have said the site will be sealed off by roadblocks from today, but the fight was still going on yesterday, with council and Travellers embroiled in a new war of words over who first concreted over the site where some of the families have been for the past decade.
Battle lines drawn as Dale farm travellers brace for eviction face-off
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Speaking of dialogue revision, part VI: and then there’s the fine art of doing it right, or, love, agent-style
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Trust has been eroded by the fact that she has been embroiled in one scandal after another.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of Britain's largest employers groups is embroiled in a row over the election of its new leader.
Times, Sunday Times