Sentence examples for which ordinances from inspiring English sources

Despite having come from a country without a litigious tradition, Chinese immigrants learned quickly to use courts as a venue to fight for their rights and won many cases in which ordinances aimed against the Chinese were declared unconstitutional by either the state or federal courts.

Firstly, there was an increase in the areas in which ordinances might be employed.

Take for example the response to catastrophic events, such as floods or earthquakes, and the related need promptly to block access to the areas affected or transit within them.5 Given the urgency of the situations with which ordinances are intended to deal, they are usually issued by the mayor directly.

The city's primary authority resides in the City Council, which approves ordinances, resolutions, and contracts.

A parliament was held at York in March 1322 at which the Ordinances were formally revoked through the Statute of York, and fresh taxes agreed for a new campaign against the Scots.

First, by its express terms, the Ordinance allows only permanent San Francisco residents to rent out on a short-term basis (which the Ordinance defines as thirty days or less) residential property they own or lease in San Francisco.

The logs highlight serious hazards at detention centres onshore and abroad, including one instance in which unexploded ordinance was found on Nauru in April 2014.

Marybeth Smith, an editorial assistant at Coded Systems Corporation in Monmouth County, which tracks municipal ordinances, said, "It is becoming more prevalent to pass this type of no-feeding ordinance as a way of dealing with animal problems".

Mill Valley's ordinance is designed to frustrate those efforts, while remaining within the letter of federal law, which preempts local ordinances.

This underlies most preservation ordinances, which invariably address only the outer skin, not the space inside.

"Communities are now forming a patchwork of ordinances, which virtually prohibits a geographic cure to the situation," Mr. Donovan said.