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- noun Plural form of
injunction .
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Examples
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The British government sought and obtained interim injunctions from the English courts against those newspapers restraining them from repeating these allegations.
Leaks Turnbull, Malcolm 1987
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There was nothing further that the four gentlemen could do, and they soon departed from the house; -- not, however, till Mr Bideawhile had given certain short injunctions to the butler concerning the property contained in Mr Longestaffe's town residence.
The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1848
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There was nothing further that the four gentlemen could do, and they soon departed from the house; — not, however, till Mr Bideawhile had given certain short injunctions to the butler concerning the property contained in Mr Longestaffe’s town residence.
The Way We Live Now 2004
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In recent months, the media have mounted an increasingly vocal campaign claiming that such orders, known as injunctions, impinge on press freedoms.
MP Fuels Debate on Privacy Law Cassell Bryan-Low 2011
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Women have also complained that the injunctions are an abuse of the law by men.
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I asked, recalling the injunctions in his note, and the meaning that I had naturally read into them.
Mr. Justice Raffles 1893
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Justice was the personal appearance of the sovereign in the supreme judicial tribunal of the nation, and his command to the members of it to obey his injunctions was the last resort of absolute power.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852
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All existing laws shall be brought in conformity with the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah, in this Part referred to as the injunctions of Islam, and no law shall be enacted which is repugnant to such injunctions.
Registan.net 2009
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The only way to prevent those infringements from leading to injunctions is to cross-license entire patent portfolios between large players in a grotesquely anti-competitive cartel.
Matthew Yglesias 2009
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Professor Kung also set out what the three religions have in common, such as injunctions against murder and respect for life.
Islam 2009
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