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Intervening in the Florida attorney general’s dormant case, he claimed that Oesterlund had embroiled Pursglove’s company in a fraud against the people of Florida.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2016

Last week those deaths had embroiled the Jerusalem government in an increasingly bitter controversy that included charges of a cover-up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finding unexpected obstacles where previously he had met with facilities and hopeful anticipations, he lost his temper, and resumed the imperious tone which already, in 1649, had embroiled him with the Queen and Mazarin.

From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

Moreover, the crown had embroiled itself with some of the Highland chieftains, whose independence it sought to abolish.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Shortly afterwards our trade fell away, for the French had embroiled the Indians against us.

From Crooked Trails by Remington, Frederic