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• v  force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
• s  deeply involved especially in something complicated
  embroiled in the conflict

• He left in 2004 with the company embroiled in an accounting scandal just as it was beginning to make big investments in subprime mortgage securities that would later sour.
• Now the Chagras, sons of a Lebanese merchant, are embroiled in one of the most publicized trials in Texas history.
• In recent months, a carefully orchestrated campaign led by political conservatives has embroiled one school district after another across the nation in angry argument over sex .

• embroil
• tangle
• sweep
• sweep up
• drag
• drag in
• entangled

News & Articles

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• Letter: Scandals destroy trust in government
  Politicians are embroiled in one scandalous issue after another.
  June 17, 2013 - The Norwich Bulletin
• The moralistic state
  In May 1918, with America embroiled in the First World War, Iowa's Gov. William Lloyd Harding dealt a blow against Germany. His Babel Proclamation - that was its title; you cannot make this stuff up - decreed: "Conversation in public places, on trains, and over the telephone should be in the English language." The proscription included church services, funerals, and pretty much everything else.
  June 16, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Flaunting wealth
  Embroiled by multiple scandals — Benghazi, IRS, Justice Department, NSA and the EPA — that he claims he found out about like everybody else did, by reading the newspapers, President Obama is going to
  June 16, 2013 - Topsail Voice

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in FOXNews
  In February 2008, during his presidential campaign, Obama described the Guantanamo trials as "a flawed military commission system that has failed to convict any one of a terrorist act since the 9/11 attacks and that has been embroiled in legal...
• William Ruto in BBC News
  We believe as ODM that given a good chance, we can get out of the quagmire that our country is embroiled in,ODM MP William Ruto told KTN television afterwards.
• TC Boyle in Times Online
  This nation, once embroiled in sectarian strife and violence is moving toward a lasting security and prosperity with a government that represents the interest of every member of the community in Iraq, because until they get that straight -- and... Joe Biden http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGfV3iqiFvyt3gg5wYE9YfDMOzy4Q The Hill http://www.google.com/url?q=http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/107141-biden-says-stability-near-in-iraq&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFiXNzr3KJftqUiUG8C1LhyX9-Buw Jul 4, 2010 32517 41879 embroilment Wright certainly wasn't one to abide by convention: the architect, Boyle says, was impulsive, flamboyant and a spendthrift, who needed complete embroilment to create, to feel alive".