Sentence examples for ordinance if from inspiring English sources

The ordinance, if passed, would require retailers to offer a 10-cent rebate to customers who use reusable sacks.

It is agreed it is impossible to prevent emission of the kind of smoke prohibited by the smoke ordinance if the vessel is equipped with hand-fired scotch marine boilers.

The Indians held a mass protest meeting at Johannesburg in September 1906 and, under Gandhi's leadership, took a pledge to defy the ordinance if it became law in the teeth of their opposition and to suffer all the penalties resulting from their defiance.

There is an allegation that the ordinance, if enforced, fosters and will foster a monopoly, and protects and will protect other persons engaged in the manufacture of brick in the city, and discriminates and will discriminate against petitioner in favor of such other persons, who are his competitors, and will prevent him from entering into competition with them.

People here say they will comply with the ordinance if it passes -- no one wants to have to pay a fine over a 20-year-old La-Z-Boy -- but they see it as one more instance of the rich and powerful telling the powerless how to live their lives.

He wants the ordinance, if it passes, to motivate other jurisdictions considering similar measures.

But the city ordinances, if they can have any force, change both the form and effect of the undertaking.

Now, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter is threatening to bar Orange County cities from enforcing their anticamping ordinances if they don't come up with shelters or other temporary housing.

Similarly, research by economists Mark Brenner, Robert Pollin and Jeannette Wicks-Lim challenged some of Neumark's living wage research, arguing the need to take a careful look at the dynamics of living wage ordinances if we want to understand their impact.

If the ordinance in question had, in express terms, made the granting of a license as merchandise broker depend upon the payment by the applicant of a given per cent.

If the city had enforced its own view ordinance, and if people had been neighborly years ago, the vegetation would never have gotten this out of control.