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• The city council was facing the pitchforks once the public had realized what the new ordinance entailed.From the entry pitchfork
• This was not what the mayorly ordinance required.From the entry mayorly
• The fire-and-brimstone preacher gave the city council a severe tongue-lashing after they voted on a zoning ordinance allowing a new strip club to open.From the entry fire and brimstone
• Now they’ve come back with an ordinance that is completely teethless.2015 April 10, Carmen George, “Tenants, advocates rally against poor rentals”, in The Fresno Bee, Fresno, Calif., page A4, column 1. From the entry teethless
• Almost immediately, city alders contacted the campaign to negotiate an ordinance.2004, Stephanie Luce -, Fighting for a Living Wage, page 121. From the entry alder
• Right-to-farm (RTF) laws or declarations are designed to protect farmers from nuisance suits and antifarming ordinances.1999, Dana L. Hoag, Agricultural crisis in America: a reference handbook. From the entry antifarming
• The Los Angeles ordinance covers semi-automatics with a detachable magazine of 20 rounds or more.1989 February 8, Robert Reinhold, “LOS ANGELES BANS RAPID-FIRING GUNS”, in The New York Times. From the entry semi-automatic
• Even now gay rights ordinances are in danger of being repealed by local and statewide initiatives.1974 February 2, Edward Sebesta, “Launching the Gay '80s: Gay Rights Under Siege In Santa Clara County”, in Gay Community News, volume 1…. From the entry anti-gay
• In New York, doubleparking is a violation of a traffic ordinance which is not a crime.1960, Cleveland-Marshall law review - Volume 9, page 541. From the entry doubleparking
• E. is a noli me tangere, to E. straithandedness towards ministry e ye ordinances of God.1900, Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, page 359. From the entry straithandedness
• A group of homeless residents sued the city, challenging the ordinances and contending that the local laws essentially criminalized homelessness.2024 June 28, Abbie VanSickle, “Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Sleeping Outdoors in Homelessness Case”, in The New York Times. From the entry criminalize
• The ordinance affirmed the common-law right of masters to recapture fugitives on their own, without coming before a magistrate.2005, Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography. From the entry recaption
• Some communities gold-plate their subdivision ordinances because they know that developers, rather than the local voters, are paying.1991, Advisory Commission on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing, “Regulatory Barriers in the Suburbs”, in Thomas H. Kean, Thomas…. From the entry gold plate
• The ordinance condones immorality and discriminates against my children's rights to grow up in a healthy, decent community.1977 January 19, Anita Bryant, quotee, “Bias Against Homosexuals Is Outlawed in Miami”, in The New York Times, page 14. From the entry discriminate
• The cities of New York and Pittsburgh, Pa., have also adopted ordinances outlawing discrimination in nongovernmentally assisted housing.1961, United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1961 Commission on Civil Rights Report, page 122. From the entry nongovernmentally
• Fort Collins, Colorado has decided it's not worth the money to fight for its ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.2019 September 19, Pete Williams, “Topless women win big as Colorado city drops ban”, in NBC News. From the entry topless
• 'Anyone is a Tupamaro if he does not merely make demands but disobeys the laws, decrees and ordinances made by an oligarchy to their interests'.2017 July 5, Jennifer S. Holmes, Terrorism and Democratic Stability, Routledge, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry Tupamaro
• In a 3-to-2 vote, town officials in Brattleboro passed an emergency antinudity ordinance for main roads and near schools and places of worship.2007 July 19, The Associated Press, “Vermont: City Known for Nudity Opts for Emergency Coverage”, in New York Times. From the entry antinudity
• For example, the creation of historical preservation districts or the passage of antiweed ordinances can be used to preserve a desired rural character.2003, Matthew J. Lindstrom, Hugh Bartling, Suburban sprawl: culture, theory, and politics. From the entry antiweed
• Order-maintenance proponents affirmatively promote youth curfews, anti-gang loitering ordinances, and order-maintenance crackdowns as milder alternatives to the theory of incapacitation and increased incarceration.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order. From the entry incapacitation
• Those clauses aren't all that uncommon these days; they were protecting thousands of gay and lesbian people before there were any city gay rights ordinances.1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, quoting Gerry Scoppettuolo, “Pro-Union And Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 17. From the entry light up
• The Woodstock Town Board dropped the controversial anti-discrimination ordinance after a meeting marked by a series of tablings and withdrawals of various resolutions.1978 April 22, “Woodstock, NY Rights Ordinance Killed in Rules Stalemate”, in Gay Community News, page 6. From the entry tabling
• The fight over this ordinance had as one of its features, a few days ago, a fistic encounter between Robert Oestermaier and Attorney Curtis M.1904 March 23, “Is No Longer Virgin Alley”, in The Pittsburg Press, page 3. From the entry fistic
• “I’ve seen some humdingers, but never any ordinance like this,” said Mark Hayes, general counsel for the Arkansas Municipal League, an organization for towns and cities.2011 July 19, Robbie Brown, “Arkansas Town Draws a Line on Clubs”, in New York Times. From the entry humdinger
• The ordinance subjected any violator to a fine, to imprisonment for not more than six months, to community service, or to some combination of the three.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order. From the entry violator
• Here we get the Virgil tradition: the monarchy preëstablished by God and founded by Augustus, the descendant of Aeneas, Rome the head of the world through divine ordinance.1931, Francesco de Sanctis, translated by Joan Redfern, History of Italian Literature, Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., page 162. From the entry preëstablish
• A second argument on which the practice of immersion is confidently based is the alleged admissions of pædobaptist writers in favour of that mode of performing the ordinance.1912, Thomas Smyth, John William Flinn, Jean Adger Flinn, Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D.D., page 438. From the entry pædobaptist

Meaning of ordinance

1. noun A local law, passed by e.g. a city.
2. noun Prior to the Third English Civil War, a decree of Parliament.
3. noun Detailed legislation that translates the broad principles of the university's charter and statutes into practical effect.

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How do you use ordinance in a sentence?

Ordinance is used as a noun. For example: “The city council was facing the pitchforks once the public had realized what the new ordinance entailed.”

What is a short sentence with ordinance?

“This was not what the mayorly ordinance required.”

What does ordinance mean?

Ordinance means a local law, passed by e.g. a city.