[ US /ˌɪnˈdʒəŋkʃən, ˌɪnˈdʒəŋʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɪnd‍ʒˈʌŋkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a formal command or admonition
  2. (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity
    injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order
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How To Use injunction In A Sentence

  • More significant, however, than this general injunction is an incident in Asoka's reign (3rd century B.C.) recorded in the Divyavadana, an important Buddhist work. Links Between Canada and India
  • The Sub – Prior readily obeyed the first part of the Abbot’s injunction, but paused upon the second — “It is Friday, most reverend,” he said in Latin, desirous that the hint should escape, if possible, the ears of the stranger. The Monastery
  • A court's competence to grant an anti-suit injunction seems to derive from its jurisdiction to adjudicate.
  • Preliminary Injunction means the court forces the infringers to stop ongoing infringement or events that are about to happen upon obligee's request before or during infringement litigation.
  • The draft reflects a similar innocence about how the media operate, while presuming to call shots and issue admonitions and injunctions in an often condescending way.
  • The MP, who has previously obtained a super-injunction preventing the publication of private emails which had been leaked to the press, told a session of the joint Commons and Lords Committee on privacy and injunctions that such newspapers should be allowed to go to the wall. Zac Goldsmith criticised over concentration camp comparison
  • First, it subjects the process of earning to certain divine injunctions, which clearly define the limits of halal and haram.
  • But this idea does point in the right general direction: toward a kind of inner conflict, toward what I have called a kind of "brokenness" in the human psyche, and in particular toward a failure of integration within the person of the creature's feelings and needs and impulses on the one hand, and the moral injunctions internalized from the socializing culture on the other. A Piece (from Huffington Post) on the Right's Manifest Hypocrisy Problem
  • The New Testament injunctions to turn the other cheek and love thy neighbour were a great advance in civilisation.
  • Civil injunctions are enforced by the court staff and not by the police, but there is no means of calling out the tipstaff or bailiff at midnight on a Saturday night to deal with a drunken partner.
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