Sample Sentences for
ordinance
(editor-reviewed)

ordinance as in:  passed the ordinance

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    It's local ordinance 17.  (source)
    ordinance = rule or law
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    A small town wants everyone to vote on a local ordinance.  (source)
    ordinance = law
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    While at the time, some of the finer buildings had been lifted and set back, most had been razed and replaced with towers, in accordance with a new ordinance that buildings on first-rate streets stand at least ten stories tall.  (source)
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    It deployed smoke inspectors to enforce a new antismoke ordinance.  (source)
    ordinance = law
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    "Apparently the city ordinances don't mean anything to them," he says, "because their lights will be on all night."  (source)
    ordinances = rules enacted by local government
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    A recent city ordinance prohibited any sort of burning, and she worried that the neighbors might call the police.  (source)
    ordinance = law
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    That there were some jokers, however, is indicated by the practice of appointing a two-man patrol whose duty was to "walk forth in the time of God's worship to take notice of such as either lye about the meeting house, without attending to the word and ordinances, or that lye at home or in the fields without giving good account thereof, and to take the names of such persons, and to present them to the magistrates, whereby they may be accordingly proceeded against."  (source)
    ordinances = rules or laws
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    The old humming soda merchandiser in the corner, the vinyl table covers, the stained plastic cups, the tacky item names on the laminated menus—Caravan Kabob, Khyber Pass Pilaf Silk Route Chicken—the badly framed poster of the Afghan girl from National Geographic, the one with the eyes—like they had passed an ordinance that every single Afghan restaurant had to have her eyes staring back from the wall.†  (source)
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    They rejected urban renewal three times because they thought it was a communist plot, and they defeated any number of proposals for historic-zoning ordinances.  (source)
    ordinances = laws
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    You're in violation of the city ordinance against smoking in that spot.†  (source)
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    "There is no law, nor reverence for authority, no regard for human ordinances or opinions, right or wrong, mixed up with that child's composition," remarked he, as much to himself as to his companion.  (source)
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    I went through basic training and ordinance school.†  (source)
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    Now that the comfort stations were run under military ordinances and the women not professionals but rather those who had unwittingly enlisted or been conscripted into the wartime women's volunteer corps, to contribute and sacrifice as all did, the expectation was that the various diseases would be kept more or less in check.  (source)
    ordinances = rules
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