standing orders
Orders that remain in effect until they are specifically changed: “During the year in which the troops occupied the town, they were under standing orders not to fire unless fired upon.”
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How to use standing orders in a sentence
In all other respects the business of the council is regulated by standing orders which the council are authorized to make.
The Council shall determine its own standing orders and the orders of the day; the sittings to be public.
The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection | Albert Eberhard Friedrich SchffleThe standing orders of the House were declared to have been complied with.
Norfolk Annals | Charles MackieHis first care was to read out standing orders to his crew, which they were forbidden under heavy penalties to infringe.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers | Jules VerneI had left standing orders that all reports falling inside the danger area were to be brought to me at any time.
The Misplaced Battleship | Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)
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