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Clauses in sentence

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Usually these questions take the form of a super-long paragraph, like a whole page long with lots and lots of clauses, "wherein this" and "therefore that."
Another of its tasks is to link together independent clauses.
In that situation, semicolons bring fluidity and variation to writing by connecting related clauses.
Firstly, unless they're being used in lists, semicolons should only connect clauses that are related in some way.
A semicolon's job is to reunite two independent clauses that will benefit from one another's company because they refer to the same thing.
From the point of view of linguistics, grammar is a set of patterns for how words are put together to form phrases or clauses, whether spoken or in writing.
This could mean avoiding complex clauses that are hard to parse in real time, making changes to avoid awkward pronounciation, or removing sounds to make speech faster.
The contract has all sorts of humiliating clauses in it, such as forcing Burt to wear a chicken suit during the race!
Ever read a tax code?: it is quite a trial to follow it's multiple clauses that our congressmen and senators push in to help their financial backers and various interest groups.
Most of the various special clauses are meant for their use - go through the average 1040 or 1040A form and look at the variety of different investment and business ventures all of which have a different set of rules.
Ah, big stars and no nudity clauses, a shame movie might be worth ten bucks now it's a coaster.
Since the whole point revolves around the missionaries being put on trial to prove they are "Christian" enough to proselytize in the town, it makes me wonder what kind of place has never heard of the First Amendment's freedom of religion and freedom of speech clauses?
Many of those who were insured discovered that clauses in their policies barred them from collecting full benefits.
Consider catastrophe bonds (or “cat bonds”), which contain clauses that stipulate that the issuer of the bond (the borrower) does not have to repay the money if a specified catastrophe occurs.
When these clauses work, they streamline debt restructurings.
Their relevant clauses are similar – often identical – to those in Greece’s investment treaties, enshrining broad, open-ended definitions of investment that do not exclude sovereign debt.
Over the years it did not revise the Constitution in a formal way but, instead, expanded its meaning by re-interpreting critical clauses.
One is to make all such measures temporary by giving these new laws and regulations "sunset clauses" that limit their duration.
Second, issuers could add “aggregation clauses” specifying that an agreement supported by a qualified majority of a country’s bondholders, say, two-thirds, would bind one and all.
There was already movement after Argentina’s earlier default to add “collective-action clauses” that allowed the holders of an individual bond issue to take a binding vote to accept a restructuring offer.
Because new contractual provisions are not easily retrofitted into old bonds, it will take years before the clauses are included in the entire stock of debt.
Countries would be well advised not to include pari passu clauses in future debt contracts, at least without specifying more fully what is intended.
Such contracts should also include collective-action clauses, which make it impossible for vulture funds to hold up debt restructuring.
Neutral foreign observers should be asked to be deployed in major hot spots and be asked to identify anyone on either side who violates any of the agreement’s clauses.
After all, it was many of those same lobbyists who in the past managed to convince legislators to insert clauses and provisions that contributed so much to the lax standards that created the systemic risks for which taxpayers are now being forced to pay.
There must also be mechanisms clearly specifying how countries can join an existing plurilateral agreement, including the possibility of opt-out clauses.
The so-called sunset clauses that stipulate expiration dates for various restrictions imposed on Iran’s nuclear program – clauses that attracted so much derision from Trump and other opponents of the deal – were vital, because they necessitated further negotiation.
Many suspect that some EU member states, while insisting on robust human-rights clauses in bilateral agreements with countries known to torture prisoners, secretly aided in the rendition of suspected terrorists to these same countries.
Despite Chinese official rhetoric about the need for a new global currency to replace the dollar, and US lawmakers’ flirtation with “Buy American” clauses (which scares everyone, not just the Chinese), no one will want to rock a boat that has almost capsized.
That argument was accepted, and the SGP was supposedly rendered more “intelligent” by, for example, permitting budget deficits to be adjusted for the economic cycle, adding medium-term objectives for expenditure, and introducing escape clauses.
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