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  • noun Plural form of ordnance.

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Examples

  • People want to be able to restrict bars in their neighborhoods, and the county sheriff wants county ordnances to deal with unincorporated areas.

    Matthew Yglesias » Booze Taxes and Booze Regulations 2009

  • Very often there are local ordnances on how it must be stored, and if you ever have a fire and your insurance carrier finds that you had 75 pounds of H4831 in the broom closet they will be thrilled not to pay.

    To Hoard or Not to Hoard 2008

  • Very often there are local ordnances on how it must be stored, and if you ever have a fire and your insurance carrier finds that you had 75 pounds of H4831 in the broom closet they will be thrilled not to pay.

    To Hoard or Not to Hoard 2008

  • For another case of unexploded ordnances shifting from their original locations, check out this briefing paper prepared by Human Rights Watch on the landmines in Mozambique affected by catastrophic flooding in 2000.

    Vaux-le-Vicomte in the DMZ 2007

  • For another case of unexploded ordnances shifting from their original locations, check out this briefing paper prepared by Human Rights Watch on the landmines in Mozambique affected by catastrophic flooding in 2000.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • O'BRIEN: I think there was some ordnances, right, so they to drag the train through, because you couldn't have the train engines going at that hour in the city, so they had to hook the train up and sort of drag it through the city.

    CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2009 2009

  • Are we going to see the federal courts begin to uphold more of these ordnances at the local level?

    CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2008 2008

  • The segregation ordnances were not unjust because they were out of whack with morality -- consensual, God-given or coded into the fabric of the space-time continuum itself.

    The Stain of Sin Hal Duncan 2006

  • Israel for instance used Cluster Bombs with Phosphorus on Palestinian civilians who were not necessarily a military objective and was against rules of engagement in any war civilian vicinities one respected especially in the usage of cluster munitions and explosive ordnances.

    African National Congress Parliamentary Caucus 2007

  • Angolan state media that hundreds of anti-personnel landmines and other types of ordnances and explosives laid during the country's war were also removed from the ground during this year.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

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