ensnarement


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Synonyms for ensnarement

the condition of being entangled or implicated

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If such ensnarement is integral to the commercial success and longevity of social media companies, what does this mean for Snapchat?
Phenomenological inquiry, as evidenced throughout, harbors the potential release from the ensnarement within the existing "technical" web of curriculum and educational language, for it is "specifically poetry," and the mode of the poetic that empowers and enables the human "to break out of his verbal prison and to achieve a 'victory over language'" as it now holds him captive (Huebner, 8).
(9) Pope thus complicates the fascinating ensnarement of Belinda's hirsute attractions:
This entrenchment and ensnarement is self-evident today.
One is that their reluctance is linked in part to their ensnarement in a set of dilemmas of political and moral import.
As Professor Tribe has noted, "in any particular area, the legislature confronts a dilemma: to draft with narrow particularity is to risk nullification by easy invasion of the legislative purpose; to draft with great generality is to risk ensnarement of the innocent in a net designed for others." ...
Ensnarement into the system sets into motion a cyclical arrest-incarceration process which few African Americans manage to escape.
Although the Court does not defer to Congress's certification as to a bill's origins, its understanding of "bills for raising revenue" and other interpretations of the Clause avoid judicial ensnarement in the legislative process.
Gershuni's ensnarement brought Spiridovich a flood of honors, including twenty-two congratulatory telegrams and letters, a major promotion, and two thousand rubles.
By intimate he refers to the degree of their interconnectedness, which effectively makes them a 'unitary system of ensnarement'.
The handling of the case involving former Worcester Police Officer Neil Shea and his ensnarement in a sting operation targeting sex predators might have some wondering whether the priority of law enforcement is to protect and serve the community, or to protect and serve itself.
Economic and spatial entrapment meant constant ensnarement within the dragnet of property and police statutes and the summary justice of police magistrates' courts.
The wholesale ensnarement of private communications by the federal government violates the basic rights of Americans.
Recent work by Paul Kelton suggests that their ensnarement in the growing Indian slave trade being run out of Virginia doomed western Siouans via a fatal combination of warfare and disease (Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715 [Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007], 216-17).
[section][section] 1531-34 (2006); (6) the federal government charged Robert Eldridge, Jr., with freeing a whale caught in his fishing net, rather than reporting the ensnarement to federal authorities so that they could free the whale instead, in violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, 16 U.S.C.