Mr Modi resorted to ordinances in their stead.
It stopped fighting local smoking-ban ordinances in 2004.
Special ordinances in 1722 and 1748 regulated recruitment to the civil service.
Gamaliel established a number of lenient ordinances, in particular, laws affecting women and non-Jews.
He said that the coalition will challenge the ordinances in court.
Zoning ordinances in Westport and Wilton do make reference to residency preferences for affordable housing.
The government has made a start, with ordinances in December that make it easier to acquire land for development.
He pointed out that Charlotte passed new ordinances in January giving the city the power to declare an "extraordinary event".
If the enforcement of similar ordinances in Santa Cruz is a model for San Francisco to follow, there is much to admire.
The monarch often enacted ordinances in the Cortes, and if he accepted petitions presented by that body, they became the law of the land.
Ashoka's edicts are proclamations and ordinances in a Buddhistic spirit, designed to impart good order, morality, and moderation by the Emperor's personal enjoining and example.
