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a command from the court — usually to prohibit someone from doing or continuing to do something- We are seeking an injunction to prevent construction of the plant until there has been further study.
- We will comply with the court's injunction.
- But the ceremony was relatively easy to arrange (and Larry arranged it all) because there were no strict religious injunctions to observe.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Yes, let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- Madame de Bellegarde gave a glance at her son which seemed tantamount to an injunction to be silent and leave her to her own devices.Henry James -- The American
- And with this fearful injunction the count disappeared through the door, which noiselessly closed after him.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Lily smiled faintly at the injunction to take her tea strong.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- And while the other woman stared at her in alarm, shouted garbled, flurried injunctions at Polly.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- This injunction had to be repeated several times before the man could be persuaded to move.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- With this injunction he left her and went out to the cow-barn.Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
- Why, simply by recalling the divine injunction: "A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another."Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
- From the benches above him as he passed, the favor descended in fierce injunctions.Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
- Much as he might want to, Seth won't be able to ignore that kind of injunction.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- Partridge easily forgave, and faithfully promised to obey the injunction now laid upon him.Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
- This means that from time to time various injunctions have to be obeyed, the accused has to be questioned, investigations have to take place and so on.Franz Kafka -- The Trial
- Hey, how did Jake get around the injunction anyway?Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- While he was speaking, my uncle was placing before me several articles of food, which, despite his earnest injunctions, I readily devoured.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- The injunction not to drink urine was quite unnecessary.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- He remembered the strict injunctions he had received from his master on starting.Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
- Dr. Pickerbaugh backed up his injunctions with statistics as impressive as those the Reverend Ira Hinkley had once used at Digamma Pi.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
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