King's Regulations
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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By King's Regulations an officer under arrest may wear neither sword nor spurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
There are about seven million ways of breaking the King's Regulations; to keep one you have to break another.
From Over the Top by Empey, Arthur Guy
I fined him for neglecting to observe the King's Regulations and Orders, and his comrades who had warned him against trying to "put anything over" on the Commanding Officer gave him the laugh.
From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister
The choice was absolutely sound, and success was achieved by methods which did not always follow strictly the letter of King's Regulations.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
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