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[en-join] / ɛnˈdʒɔɪn /




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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

Going forward, courts may only enjoin enforcement to the extent necessary to give relief to the plaintiffs who brought the case.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2025

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

The report enjoins Boeing, within the next six months, to “develop an action plan that includes a milestone-based approach that comprehensively addresses each recommendation.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

The order enjoins the government from further review and use of these documents for investigative purposes, not for purposes of intelligence classification and national security assessments.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2022

“A Wicked Soul in Cherry Hill” enjoins us to remember.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

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

On the other hand the Abbé Dudouyt writing from Paris, enjoins prudence on the bishop, lest "it should seem as if he could not keep on good terms with anybody."

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

State courts have deemed such strikes illegal, and courts have sometimes enjoined public union strikes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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

"I enjoined the defendants from taking any action to implement the so-called 'Fork Directive' pending the completion of briefing and oral argument on the issues," said O'Toole in a hearing on Thursday.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2025

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

But the swineherd calmly stood near Penelope whispering what her son had bade him tell and what he had enjoined on her.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

“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

I wondered: Instead of paternalistically enjoining Yolande to remain focused on her studies, what if Du Bois had engaged his teenage daughter as a young intellectual?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

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

So her order on Monday enjoining the Department of Justice from using those materials in its ongoing criminal investigation until a special master completes his or her review was in some ways not a surprise.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2022

It was in it that he had a word to say about the other kind of Christian conduct that he was in the habit of enjoining upon her.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce




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