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[en-join] / ɛnˈdʒɔɪn /




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“Courts cannot enjoin implementation of Executive Orders that leave open material issues that still need to be resolved by agencies,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

The order would also “permanently” restrain and enjoin Musk’s trust from violating the section of the Exchange Act that was the subject of this case, according to the text of the proposed settlement.

From MarketWatch May 4, 2026

Court of International Trade to enjoin the tariffs so businesses don’t have to pay them while litigation plays out and later seek refunds if higher courts rule them unlawful.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 8, 2026

The department argues that “district courts lack jurisdiction to hear challenges arising from removal proceedings or to issue orders that enjoin or restrain execution of removal orders.”

From Slate Jun. 26, 2025

Some employers go further; instead of relying on the informal “money taboo” to keep workers from discussing and comparing wages, they specifically enjoin workers from doing so.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

So, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which God enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

The First Amendment enjoins Congress from legally establishing a particular religion or requiring citizens to observe or deny religious tenets.

From Washington Post Dec. 7, 2021

The Campbell House, included in admission, enjoins history buffs to self-tour an elegant 1900s mansion.

From Seattle Times Jul. 7, 2021

The May federal ruling further enjoins “officers, agents, and employees” of WPM from “suppressing the availability of truthful negative comments or reviews through any means, including threats, intimidation, non-disparagement clauses, and suppression of online content.”

From Slate Nov. 8, 2018

For the Mohammedan religion enjoins that an animal is only lawful food if the blood has run before its death.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

Confronted with the rules of fair play, the reader was enjoined to solve the case alongside the detective, which required seeing through the author’s sleights of hand.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

During that period, I would expect that pregnant families would likely file class-action litigation under Rule 23 to try to have the executive order enjoined on a classwide basis.

From Slate May 19, 2025

“Nor has the Government adequately identified which particular provisions, if any, are sufficiently independent of the enjoined definitional provision and thus might be able to remain in effect,” reads the ruling.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2024

As a young girl growing up in colonial Algeria, Marnia Lazreg was enjoined by her grandmother to wear a veil, to “protect” herself.

From New York Times Mar. 12, 2024

Why had he enjoined me, too, to secrecy?

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

“This broad displacement contradicts what B.P.J. told the court a few months ago — that not one ‘single person’ would be harmed by enjoining this validly enacted state law.

From Washington Times Jul. 12, 2023

“Therefore, we find that the circuit court abused its discretion by permanently enjoining the State from implementing the Hope Scholarship Act.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 17, 2022

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered them released last week while it considers whether the group should remain subject to the restraining order enjoining it from accessing or using Konnech’s data.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 16, 2022

The law’s challengers, a group of Black-led advocacy organizations, sought temporary relief enjoining enforcement of the law while the case proceeds.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2021

Taking place on the sixth day of the increase of the moon, this part of the festival is called Situl Shasthi as enjoining the use of cold food.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose




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