standing orders

1. 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.”

Example Sentences

In all other respects the business of the council is regulated by standing orders which the council are authorized to make.

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The Council shall determine its own standing orders and the orders of the day; the sittings to be public.

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The Standing Orders of the House were declared to have been complied with.

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His first care was to read out standing orders to his crew, which they were forbidden under heavy penalties to infringe.

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I had left standing orders that all reports falling inside the danger area were to be brought to me at any time.

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