Sentence examples for ordinances from from inspiring English sources

They could be obtained through the mail for as little as $3.50 by, among others, minors who were prevented by local ordinances from buying them over the counter.

You choose tax rates and ordinances from a series of menus, and try to balance traffic and property values and pollution and dozens of other factors on the way to creating a successful city — with the definition of "successful" rather up in the air.

The "emergency" was the need to block any state or county ordinances from protecting the LGBT community.

You can't help but be impressed by the wisdom of our ancestors, the insight into the human psyche that they reflected in these rules, and statutes and ordinances from so many thousands of years ago.

Tenants on exclusive parkland, a passion-maddened couple break an ordinance from the landlord forbidding fruit consumption; soon eviction, and recrimination, follow (The Book of Genesis; Paradise Lost).

The owners of at least 38 properties were fined the maximum $30,000 under the Richmond ordinance from 2009 to Oct. 13, 2011, city records show.

By a 6-to-3 vote, the court upheld a nude dancing ordinance from Erie, Pa., that requires dancers to wear at least pasties and a G-string.

That streak of successes had a discouraging setback last week in California when a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a misguided ordinance from the Los Angeles suburb of Redondo Beach.

The opponents of the turbines organized a voter-registration campaign among second-home owners, and eventually won a zoning ordinance from the Town Board banning wind farms and protecting pristine scenic views.

The birds were such tempting targets that, in the early eighteenth century, cities had to ban hunting in town, because, in the words of one ordinance, from 1727, "everyone takes the liberty of shooting thoughtlessly from his windows, the threshold of his door, the middle of the streets".

Emanuel dropped his proposals to increase seven-fold the minimum fine for resisting arrest (including for passive resistance) from $25 to $200, to double the maximum fine for resisting arrest from $500 to $1,000, and to double the maximum fine for violations of the parade ordinance from $1,000 to $2,000.