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They prevailed last August, obtaining—follow me here—an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of those provisions.

The injunction, she argued, only applies to these four plaintiffs—not to anyone else.

It is, after all, only reviewing a decline of a stay of an injunction to stop withholding licenses.

The fact that some prescriptive rules are valuable does not mean that every grammatical injunction should be obeyed.

The winning injunction prevents the sale from taking place and almost ensures the lawsuit will go to trial.

Now, quite alone and safe, she asked herself whether she had been a fool to obey Nigel's injunction and to trust her own beauty.

But a trade dispute of long standing was not settled, even in the seventeenth century, by a royal injunction.

According to Walpole, an injunction was applied for to prevent the publication of the letters.

Up, and this morning comes Mr. Clerke, and tells me that the Injunction against Trice is dismissed again, which troubles me much.

Christianity, not satisfied with recommending the love of our neighbor, superadds the injunction of loving our enemies.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to injunction, such as: admonition, ban, embargo, instruction, mandate, and prohibition.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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