[ adj ] caught as if in a mesh <adj.all> enmeshed in financial difficulties
Some White House officials argue that Mr. Skinner, enmeshed in a lengthy organizational review being conducted by business executive Eugene Croisant, appears more concerned with communications and procedure than with policy.
At home, China introduced its first-ever 'Foreign Trade Law' on July 1 and abroad its officials were enmeshed in difficult negotiations on Gatt entry.
A further thesis of the academicized bureaucrats who might have halted at the Rhine to confer upon Hitler a bufferdom is that to have gone the 250 undefended miles to Baghdad would have enmeshed the allies in a Vietnam-like "quagmire."
But the banks intend to object to the generous fee proposal, arguing that the legal bills may be far too steep for the Hunt-held entities that are enmeshed in bankruptcy-court proceedings here.
The movie version of Tom Wolfe's novel about a Wall Street bond salesman who gets enmeshed in the Bronx court system has been accused of unfairly portraying blacks and Hispanics as criminals.
He plays an American arms negotiator named Honeyman strolling through the woods of Geneva enmeshed in talks with his Soviet counterpart, Andrey Botvinnik, played by Guinness.
Both of these areas, however, remain enmeshed in controversy.
But allegations of bribery, influence-peddling and other wrongdoing enmeshed Wedtech in a series of federal and state investigations that forced it into bankruptcy proceedings in December 1986.
Salomon Brothers, enmeshed last year in a bond trading scandal, is just the latest example. So how does Goldman guard against such tendencies?
Saturday's clot of 8,300 had become enmeshed in a low-pressure front moving up from the Oregon coast.
At the rate things are moving it becomes fairly easy to imagine a national economy where genuine economic activity becomes enmeshed in the webs spun by lawmakers, lawyers and judges.
Shultz cited a host of statistics to show how tightly the American and Asian economies are enmeshed.