ordinance

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“Simply put, no changes to ordinance proposals would materially reduce prospects of wider scale dilution and would negatively impact shares,” they add.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Mr. Olivier is trying to challenge an ordinance in Brandon, Miss., that restricts protests near a public amphitheater.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

In a CBS interview on Sunday, defence secretary Pete Hegseth outlined a next phase of the US-Israeli operation that included using more powerful ordinance.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

Culver City, west of downtown Los Angeles, passed a single-stair ordinance last year to nix the second-stair requirement in certain apartment buildings up to six stories.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

However, unlike a similar ordinance adopted in Boston, San Francisco’s policy applies only to public employment, not to private vendors that do business with the city or county of San Francisco.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander