national code
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It said posts such as lifetime president in the IOA were against the national code, and it wanted senior officials to be limited to three terms in office.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
The California version isn’t identical to the model code; every three years, state officials rework the national code to fit California’s needs and promulgate the result as state law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
Commercial kangaroo shooters must adhere to standards of humane killing, set out by a national code of practice.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 21, 2017
A Justice Minister decided to patent the new national code of laws under his name, so any organization that wanted a copy — a court, an embassy — had to pay him for it.
From Time ● Oct. 15, 2011
We cannot hide from you, Sir, the direful consequences of expressions so opposed to the constant principles of our national code.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert
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