injunction

Example Sentences

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A High Court injunction was granted at the end of May to stop striking bin workers from delaying bin lorries leaving depots in Birmingham.

From BBC

It is, in a modest and practical way, an expression of the biblical injunction to honor one’s parents—not by grand gestures, but by assuming a few of the small responsibilities they habitually postpone.

From The Wall Street Journal

The local authority won an emergency interim injunction to close the hotel to migrants in the summer, only to have the ruling overturned by the Court of Appeal.

From BBC

Two days later, Justice Black, in an order he dated himself in longhand, voided the temporary injunction against putting Johnson’s name on the ballot and ended the investigation.

From Seattle Times

Brown objected to that account as hearsay, but the judge allowed it after Boyer argued that evidentiary rules are more relaxed in a hearing for a preliminary injunction.

From Washington Post