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  2. Cloture - Wikipedia

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    If cloture is invoked, the motion to proceed is not debatable. [46] Under rule XXVIII, paragraph 2 (added on January 24, 2013), a cloture motion on a compound motion to go to conference ripens two hours after it is filed. If cloture is invoked, the compound motion is not debatable. [46] Cloture voting in the United States Senate, 1917−2014 [47]

  3. Urdu Lughat - Wikipedia

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    It is the most comprehensive, detailed and thick dictionary in the history of Urdu language. [ citation needed ] It is published by the Urdu Lughat Board, Karachi. The dictionary was edited by the honorary director general of the board Maulvi Abdul Haq who had already been working on an Urdu dictionary since the establishment of the Urdu ...

  4. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi–Urdu grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector" [ 55 ] ) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [ 56 ] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of ...

  5. Social Security Fairness Act takes big step towards passage - AOL

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    Using his power to invoke cloture — a process limiting debate and setting a 30-hour window before a final vote must be held — the proposed legislation as of Monday's Senate schedule was ...

  6. History of Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    In these cities, the language continued to be called "Hindi" as well as "Urdu". [27] [21] While Urdu retained the grammar and core vocabulary of the local Hindi dialect, it adopted the Nastaleeq writing system from Persian. [21] [28] The term Hindustani is derived from Hindustan, the Persian-origin name for the northwestern Indian subcontinent.

  7. March 1971 - Wikipedia

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    Although cloture can still be invoked by a 60% vote of the senators present on most issues, the filibuster cloture rule was amended for nominations in 2017, and filibusters can now [citation needed] be stopped by a simple majority of the U.S. Senate. Born: Kinga Rusin, Polish TV journalist and producer; in Warsaw

  8. Hindustani orthography - Wikipedia

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    Urdu is written from right to left, and most letters link together. This leads to variations in the form of a letter depending on its position in a word. Most vowels are omitted in generic texts, although they may be written for disambiguation or for pedagogical purposes. Urdu is primarily written in a calligraphic style of the script called ...

  9. National Language Promotion Department - Wikipedia

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    The National Language Promotion Department (Urdu: اِدارۀ فروغِ قومی زُبان Idāra-ē Farōġ-ē Qaumī Zabān [ɪ.ˈd̪aː.rə.eː fə.ˈroːɣ.eː ˈqɔː.mi zə.ˈbaːn]), formerly known as the National Language Authority (or Urdu Language Authority), [1] is an autonomous regulatory institution established in 1979 to support the advancement and promotion of Urdu, which is ...