A rule for ending debate in a deliberative body

Usage examples of closure.

The shoulder straps were riveted to the backplate and fitted onto hooks with pin closures on the front.

Solarians, whose autopilot had now reduced their rate of closure to only a few kilometers per minute, were able to get a better look at the antique forcefield bonds that held the berserker and the bioresearch station together.

Minnie was removing her booties by opening the Velcro closures with her teeth.

Leather hides covered the frame on the outside, but the entrance flap he had seen from inside was barred on the outside with a gatelike closure that could be secured shut with lashings.

Some scientific materialists have misleadingly argued that the closure principle must be a universal truth because scientific research has found no evidence of any nonphysical influences in the natural world.

While the nineteenth-century adoption of the closure principle denied causal efficacy to anything that is nonphysical, the twentieth-century version of physicalism denies that anything nonphysical even exists in reality.

Dressed in what had become regulation clothes for Cappy, the improvised uniform of khaki gabardine slacks, white shirt, and a flight jacket, she inched the zipper closure up a JANET DAILEY little higher and stepped out of the operations building at Boiling Field to proceed to the DC-3 parked on the ramp, the passenger version of the Army cargo C-47.

Although he was sentimentally attached to both places, he realized that these closures were for the good of the entire company, and this goal had to be his primary consideration.

In the economic environment of the 1930s, layoffs and closures were quite common, and most employees were just thankful to be personally spared.

Particularly with regard to the human mind, the closure principle seems to be incompatible with experience, for our conscious mental processes, which have not been demonstrated to be composed of configurations of mass and energy, certainly do appear to influence human behavior.

Even during the closure of Tibet in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, coinciding with the growing European study of Oriental cultures, there was a measure of contact through both China and British India.

Well then, someone had slyly deprogrammed the robot to forget any closure command within an hour after it was issued.

On the other hand, the sensitive filaments of Dionaea are not viscid, and the capture of insects can be assured only by their sensitiveness to a momentary touch, followed by the rapid closure of the lobes.

This, too, pleased Celia, who felt happier in having recommended against closure of Harlow a year and a half earlier.

All are healthy, though one has an incipient carcinoma, which may result in closure some years future.