run foul

The decision not to run the cartoons is motivated by nothing more than fear: either fear of offending or fear of retaliation.

Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.

The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.

When these last words of his were interpreted to her, she started, made as if she would run after him, but checked herself.