Sentence examples for its ordinance from inspiring English sources

The age of consent had been 16 years for three decades before the government raised it in its ordinance in February.

Indeed, Riverside, a town of 8,000 nestled across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, has already spent $82,000 defending its ordinance, and it risked having to pay the plaintiffs' legal fees if it lost in court.

The Cambridge Council passed its ordinance in 1999, but it does not apply to Harvard.

A judge overturned the Hazelton ordinance, ruling it unconstitutional, and Riverside rescinded its ordinance, with officials saying the town could not afford the legal costs of defending it.

The Human Rights Campaign had argued it was a bad proposal because it required the council to repeal its ordinance without any proof that the legislature could deliver on repealing at least part of HB 2.

Old Saybrook made its ordinance more stringent in the 1990s in response to pollution from septic systems.

Issuing what may have been the first juridical defense of clergy-penitent privilege in centuries, De Witt Clinton, who as Mayor of New York City served as a judge for the case, declared: "It is essential to the free exercise of a religion, that its ordinances should be administered -- that its ceremonies as well as its essentials should be protected...

In Los Angeles, the City Council this summer gave tentative approval to a plan designed to eliminate thousands of illegally enlarged or bootleg billboards that proliferated because the city did not enforce its ordinances.

Mormons claim the martyrdom of the Apostles led to a loss of Priesthood authority to administer the church and its ordinances.

Along with one of his fellow commissioners Suzanne Boisvenue, the issue about the city's restrictive definition of "family" in its ordinances was brought forward.

It liberalized its zoning ordinance in 2002, which made it easier for homeowners to add a unit and encouraged them to do so.