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restraining order
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  • TRO—temporary restraining order.†   (source)
  • It's a restraining order that prohibits you from stepping within one mile of your wife, your daughter, or Burton Welsh.†   (source)
  • Tell him you're going to take out a restraining order.†   (source)
  • "Consider me your living, breathing restraining order," I said.†   (source)
  • The bar owners had a restraining order against me, so I couldn't go anywhere near them.†   (source)
  • The judge granted a temporary restraining order against her ex-husband.
  • No one could accuse her of breaking the restraining order.†   (source)
  • Her parents got a restraining order on me.†   (source)
  • I'd asked about the restraining order out loud, right?†   (source)
  • "I don't know much about the restraining order.†   (source)
  • I think of the three-year restraining order she basically took out on me, which I violated tonight.†   (source)
  • Clearly, a restraining order meant nothing in the face of what had happened.†   (source)
  • "Thanks for granting the restraining order," Jake said.†   (source)
  • He said they intend to file a temporary restraining order against me until the case gets sorted out.†   (source)
  • And the restraining order is just for show.†   (source)
  • Thankfully the detective and the investigator took the situation as seriously as we did, and supported our desire for a restraining order to bar Mona from further contact with Cassie.†   (source)
  • Restraining order?†   (source)
  • "I know your dad liked to keep you in a glass ball so maybe you're not aware of the restraining order."†   (source)
  • "To confirm we're on the same page, you understand that contact between you and your mother while there is a restraining order, even if you initiate it, is forbidden."†   (source)
  • "There's a restraining order.†   (source)
  • There is a restraining order!†   (source)
  • He knew his destination precisely because he'd been there twice before, two months earlier, before the restraining order had forced him out of town.†   (source)
  • Include a request for a restraining order to keep the lout off the property and away from Lettie and the kids and grandkids for the rest of their lives.†   (source)
  • "You picked the wrong girl to try to scare, and if you keep this up, I'll call the police and get a restraining order.†   (source)
  • Only then did the restraining order occur to him, but the thought did little more than slow him down.†   (source)
  • Six: Still suffering from the emotional break, Ryan had lost his calm and assaulted that man, which did nothing but give them all grounds to legally exclude him from their lives with a restraining order.†   (source)
  • Finally, after about a week, the day came when I made her cry—something about Booger ChapStick, I forget the specifics— and the teacher gave me the elementary school equivalent of a restraining order.†   (source)
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