injunctions

plural of injunction

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of injunctions But a district court issued injunctions requiring his administration to meet certain financial obligations related to foreign aid. Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 Weatherington and board members Audrey White, and Bernard Jennings are named in the injunctions. Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025 Instead, the stay is warranted by the Supreme Court's decisions to stay injunctions ordering the reinstatement of removed officers. Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025 Barrett has sided with the conservative majority in many cases, bolstering national gun rights, ending affirmative action, and limiting the ability of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions in a more recent birthright citizenship decision. Solcyré Burga, Time, 2 Sep. 2025 In each case, a federal judge has ordered a temporary stop to the caps, but those decisions involve only temporary injunctions that are being appealed by the government. Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 His ruling applied only to those jurisdictions, as opposed to other court injunctions that have held nationwide implications. Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2025 After several years of limited success with civil injunctions based on zoning violations, then-City Attorney Jan Goldsmith began criminally prosecuting unlicensed operators and their landlords in early 2016. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025 Specifically, judges denied preliminary injunctions in 16 lawsuits and granted them in five. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injunctions
Noun
  • Do that by using a clean rag or paper towel treated with a small amount of commercial cleaning or bleach solution, and rub them for as long as directed by the manufacturer's instructions.
    Audrey Bruno, SELF, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In recent incidents, Google's Gemini CLI destroyed user files while attempting to reorganize them, and Replit's AI coding service deleted a production database despite explicit instructions not to modify code.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ever since, as the Taliban returned to power, once again issuing edicts to suppress women and girls, the clinic and its 34-year-old midwife Atifa have continued to provide a lifeline for mothers and young children.
    Elise Blanchard, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
  • One of the fundamental edicts of the [original Naked Gun creators] Zucker Brothers was you played against the comedy.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The phones will be available for pre-orders at the end of the week, and hitting shelves in 10 days.
    James Powel, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Those orders jumped from $138 billion to $455 billion and are a testament to growing demand for Artificial Intelligence demand in the cloud services sector.
    JJ Kinahan, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Many tech companies thrive with top-down leadership and linear management—clear directives from the founder to executors, without middle layers slowing or distorting the vision.
    Jonathan Low, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Regarding the centers, Ohio State has said the closures were tied to Trump’s anti-DEI directives.
    Chris Quintana, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As aviation grapples with its environmental footprint, leaders like Barberot demonstrate that sustainability advances often come from unexpected directions.
    Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The Framework stresses that, without policy actions, strategic plans risk moving in different directions, lose coherence or fall away.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, the issue of posting the commandments in schools first surfaced in 1980.
    Lydia Artz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The pomegranate contains all the commandments of God in its seeds; the divine inhabits it.
    Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Injunctions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injunctions. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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