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  • The injunction not to drink urine was quite unnecessary.†  (source)
  • Much as he might want to, Seth won't be able to ignore that kind of injunction.†  (source)
  • That month a Mrs. Clyde Thomason, secretary of a new group called the League of Central High Mothers, filed a petition for an injunction to keep the Little Rock school board from carrying out its gradual integration plan.†  (source)
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  • It's fear, not the injunction that keeps the Houses from hurling atomics against each other.†  (source)
  • Long-held hatreds of neighbors could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken, despite the Bible's charitable injunctions.†  (source)
  • "A judge issued an order, an injunction that they couldn't dump the sludge because there's a body buried there," Sims said, and took a drink, and pulled a cigar out of his pocket.†  (source)
  • Indeed, he was happy to skip church services in order to violate those injunctions.†  (source)
  • Thus far with Addison's injunction, but my Reader has me back in that New Hampshire picnic place.†  (source)
  • But the ceremony was relatively easy to arrange (and Larry arranged it all) because there were no strict religious injunctions to observe.†  (source)
  • What she meant by her injunction was: Your body is just like all other bodies; you have no right to shame; you have no reason to hide something that exists in millions of identical copies.†  (source)
  • Poor child, she was bewildered by the many injunctions we laid upon her, and the curtailing of her freedom tried her sorely, though not a word of complaint came from her.†  (source)
  • She was a curiosity and I, a curious child, I, with the promise of snow in my heart and the wonder of the world seizing me with such fury at times that I had to touch forbidden china cups or throttle a little cousin or pet a dog's head so strenuously that he looked as if he were coming out of the birth canal, I wanted nothing more then to get a temporary injunction from politeness and have a good long stare at her speckled arms.†  (source)
  • She could sense my hurt, the inconceivable magnitude of my bruised vanity, and my need to allay the monstrously insistent fiats and injunctions of a male ego.†  (source)
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