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- noun Plural form of
ordnance .
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Examples
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People want to be able to restrict bars in their neighborhoods, and the county sheriff wants county ordnances to deal with unincorporated areas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Are we going to see the federal courts begin to uphold more of these ordnances at the local level?
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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
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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.
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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.
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