kangaroo closure

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noun

parliamentary procedure a form of closure in which the chairman or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes othersCompare guillotine (def. 4)

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Words nearby kangaroo closure

kang, kanga, kanga pirau, kangaroo, kangaroo care, kangaroo closure, kangaroo court, kangaroo dog, kangaroo grass, Kangaroo Island, kangaroo paw

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Example sentences from the Web for kangaroo closure

It was definitely an anti-closure ending, and if the character—and show—has life behind it, it leaves the door wide open.
Michael C. Hall on Going Drag for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ and Exorcising ‘Dexter’|Marlow Stern|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Moscow officials insist that the hospitals listed for closure lacked professional services and often stayed half empty.
Putin’s Health Care Disaster|Anna Nemtsova|November 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The closure of transport was a perfect example of the far-reaching consequences of clashes in the disputed capital.
The Radicals Who Slaughtered a Synagogue|Creede Newton|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Let us think of his family and his parents and hopefully today they have achieved some measure of closure,” Johnson added.
Money, Murder, and Adoption: The Wild Trial of the Polo King|Jacqui Goddard|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Writing the book has given Cumming “some sense of closure,” a statement of a “more holistic version of me.”
Alan Cumming: The Truth About My Father|Tim Teeman|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to want to stop.
Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17)|Various
Nqa is very much surprised, because he has never seen a Kangaroo dance like that before.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
You can see the marks of Kangaroo's big new feet running ever so far back over the bare hills.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
A small kangaroo was seen by Mr. Cunningham feeding upon the grass, but fled the moment that it saw him approaching.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
The traces of a small kangaroo were everywhere abundant but the animals were not seen.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King

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