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The court order could have been about a restraining order, in which case you go to jail for breaking a restraining order.

It's worth bearing in mind that rich people play an important role in restraining the power of government.

The major restraining factor on young men in a village or tribal setting was always the rest of the village.

You'll note that such a restraining order does not involve any sort of due process.

If it's a TechCrunch or a VentureBeat, snail mail can really work, but the whois address is a restraining order too far.

Were they allowed back into the building, ignoring the restraining order that was obtained?

Don't mistake the journalist's writeup with the actual law, and perhaps think about restraining your knee-jerk 'EU is awful' and 'bureaucrats are clueless'.

Fourth one: > Following an incident later in 2007 involving his stepfather, a restraining order was filed against him, barring him from possessing firearms.

I don't think one can trust the law to catch up or to be effective in restraining those with the power.

What they're talking about is a (temporarily) sealed temporary restraining order.

I didn't realize up to then that I had been restraining some of my nerdiness.

Even if there are no truly evil, bad actors the lack of a restraining force means that even with random events and outcomes, officers will tend to behave worse and worse on average.

This case involved the so-called "Lautenberg Amendment", which forever denies access to firearms to anyone who has been the target of a restraining order in a domestic dispute.

I don't think that restraining what the users can do or have to do while using your "free" software can hold up against the definition of freedom.

Let me show you what is the definition of freedom: "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint." Opening open source code that I have no intention to open up sounds pretty restraining to me and also it qualifies as hindrance...

Restraining yourself from telling silly jokes won't hurt anyone; feeling threatened in an unsafe environment does, and this is how it is perceived an industry where women are in the minority.

Restraining the comparison to the English speaking nations, we can say: 1.) Both episodes begin with a cultural revolution that has no precedent (the arrival of militant Protestantism versus the arrival of the counter-culture of the 1960s) 2.) Both episodes witness a fundamental reassessment of what property is.