enjoin

in a sentence

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The resolution enjoins members to reduce their carbon footprint.

I enjoin you to practice the meditation of peace.  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

"We were strictly enjoined not to speak, or even cough," wrote Private Martin.  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

The precautions publicly enjoined on your patient, however, soon become a matter of routine and this effect disappears.  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1942

Every man can understand it, but to conceive it and enjoin it was possible only for God.  (source) Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869

And I, as was enjoin'd me, straight replied.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320

THE NYGHT OF THE CLAYMYNG BEING THE NYGHT OF GREATESTE WEAKNESSE, WHENNE THE DARKENESSE WITHINNE ENJOINS THE DARKENESSE WITHOUTE & THE PERSONNE OF POWERE OPENNES TO THE GREATE DARKNESSE, SO STRIPPED OF PROTECTIONS, BINDINGS & CASTS OF SHIELDE & IMMUNITIE.†  (source) Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures, 2009

Scarlett winked slyly at Frank and, for all his distress at the bad news he had just heard, he smiled, knowing she was enjoining silence and making him one in a pleasant conspiracy.†  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

High matter thou enjoinest me, O prime of men, Sad task and hard: For how shall I relate To human sense the invisible exploits Of warring Spirits?†  (source) John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

"Don't mention it," he enjoined me eagerly.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

"One thing, thou that wast my wife, I would enjoin upon thee," continued the scholar.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

To follow it I hasten'd, but with voice Of sweetness it enjoin'd me to desist.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320

Your Christianity, which enjoins you to resist not evil, and to turn the other cheek, would make me a bankrupt.†  (source) George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, 1905

The state requested that the Supreme Court enjoin the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to block parts of the law.

Church canons generally enjoin baptizing an infant unless at least one of the parents will raise the child in the Catholic faith.

The organization further requested that the court issue an injunction to enjoin enforcement of the rule until the lawsuit is settled.

They shook hands and exchanged the wry smile of adversaries who are enjoined from mauling each other by some inconvenience of context.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

Charles then returned to the consulate with a federal marshal to serve both orders, one ordering the consul general to produce me and the other enjoining the consul general from removing me from the country.  (source) Li Cunxin, Mao’s Last Dancer, 2003