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Meanings of cloture in English
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Examples for "closure"
Examples for "closure"
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Photo: RNZ Today finally brought some closure to their fight, Karl said.
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Christ, for five years, you've led the station in case closure rates.
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As far as locals are concerned, its closure couldn't happen fast enough.
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The mass closure was caused by a technical issue with processing payments.
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However, the closure has as much to do with business as safety.
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The global gag rule didn't exactly inspire us women to lean in.
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News, features and comment on the 'global gag rule', officially called the Mexico City policy.
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Every year Mr. Adams renewed his motion to strike out the gag rule, and forced it to a vote.
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Kaiser Family Foundation: on global health policy, especially their research on the impact of the "global gag rule".
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McCain has avoided attacks on Obama while in foreign countries but that self-imposed gag rule did not extend to his plane.
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Victims who break the gag law can face up to four months jail or heavy fines.
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Tasmania's Attorney-General, Elise Archer, has recently released a discussion paper and called for submissions regarding the gag law.
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Her group argues that new public security law, which should be known as the " gag law", has been criticised by the UN's human rights rapporteurs.
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But due to Tasmania's archaic gag laws, she has been unable to.
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While Tasmania and the NT have repealed sexual assault victim gag laws, Victoria has gone backwards.
Usage of cloture in English
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That means a cloture vote could come on Friday morning at the soonest.
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We can measure this inability by looking at cloture votes to end debate.
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Two Republicans voted with a majority of Democrats for cloture.
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Two Democrats voted against the cloture vote: Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas.
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Invoking so-called "cloture" to bar a filibuster takes 60 votes.
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In the early 1960s, cloture required assent by at least sixty-seven of the Senate's one hundred members.
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The failed cloture vote lets lawmakers keep pushing for proposals that otherwise would fall by the wayside.
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One must get 60 votes for cloture.
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The Democrats need 60 votes to achieve "cloture" or avoid a filibuster, and that seems near-impossible.
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Having achieved the "cloture" vote to curtail debate, the bill now only needs a simply majority to go forward.
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After filing a cloture petition, lawmakers must wait one legislative day before proceeding to the cloture vote, according to Senate rules.
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To prevent this Mr. Mason wishes a rule of cloture (or closure, as it is called in England) adopted.
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In the final Senate before the Republicans took over in 1995, there were 80 cloture motions.
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Six Republicans voted with 54 members of the Democratic caucus to pass the cloture motion that permits the measure to move ahead.
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Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell, one of two Democrats to oppose cloture, continued after the vote to press for tighter regulation of derivatives.
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If you had asked a Chicagoan, the honorable chairman would have been compelled to resort to cloture before the orator got through.
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