King's Regulations
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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The peacetime R.A.F. would not have Bader without legs, but when war began, not even the King's Regulations could hold him back.
From Time Magazine Archive
By King's Regulations an officer under arrest may wear neither sword nor spurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once he slipped into anecdote à propos of the helplessness of British soldiers in any matter outside the scope of the King's Regulations.
From The Wings of the Morning by Tracy, Louis
I am afraid, your—your Royal Highness," she stammered, her brain working busily all the time, "that that would be contrary to—to—to the spirit of—er—the King's Regulations.
From Once on a Time by Robinson, Charles
Not King's Regulations, nor Military Law, nor any handbook devotes even a sub-paragraph to light and leading upon certain points which we have here to consider every day.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919 by Various
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