general order

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noun Military.Usually general orders .

any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.

any one of a set of permanent orders governing the duties and behavior of sentries on routine guard duty.

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

Origin of general order

First recorded in 1865–70

The committee is also finalizing a general order that will strengthen ethics and peer support, he said.
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“They are hypocritical on this very issue,” Shearer said about Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and other public officials.
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And in order for them to realize their vision, they are willing to use any means.
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It also contains some clunky passages of adultery, temptations of the flesh, and general sexual awkwardness.
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Closed courthouses, rogue clerks, and misleading statements from the attorney general as Florida welcomes same-sex marriage.
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He could order the Justice Department to begin the necessary regulatory work.
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A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
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On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
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In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.
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To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
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Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
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