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Example sentences for: ordinance

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In 1897, in an attempt to curb the worst excesses of the Big Easy, Alderman Sidney Story created a city ordinance outlawing prostitution everywhere in the city except for a small, specific area just beyond the French Quarter, where it could be contained and controlled.
And for this biographer, "one of the most tasteful campaigns in the history of modern American politics"--Eastwood's run, as a property-rights Republican, for mayor of Carmel, Calif.--was one in which the star likened a civic ordinance that would ban second kitchens to "Adolf Hitler knocking on your door."
A traffic engineer will write in, noting that the signs cannot, in fact, be placed any higher due to some ordinance, which any moron would know about.
Whatever protection this (local ordinance) of a First Amendment has against filters, it has "painfully" little protection against IDs.
HOLYOKE - An ordinance that will help the city recoup thousands of dollars in fines from abandoned car owners has won the support of the police chief.