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Clause

Clause meaning

A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance. | A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them. | A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is dependent (subordinate). (Independent clauses can be sentences; they can also be part of a sentence. Dependent clauses can only be part of a sentence.)

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Dependent clauses The syntax of a dependent clause is generally the same as that of an independent clause, except that the dependent clause usually begins with a subordinating conjunction or relative pronoun (or phrase containing such).

In English, a comma is used to separate a dependent clause from the independent clause if the dependent clause comes first: After I fed the cat, I brushed my clothes.

For example, Hamlin’s contract contains a clause that says he will only receive 55 percent of his salary if he is unable to play for an extended period of time due to injury (the Bills decided last week not to use that clause for that being).

IPSO upheld the complaint as a breach of Clause 2 (Privacy) and Clause 6 (Children) of the Editors’ Code and ordered the publication of this ruling.

Responding to a question about whether there is a related clause in the peace treaty, Simonyan stated that he has not encountered such a clause.

The Committee’s job is to go through the text of the Bill, clause by clause, in order to see that the Bill тАЬreflects clearly the intention behind the measure and the object proposed to be achieved is adequately brought out,тАЭ Rajya Sabha rules say.

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, became more family-friendly, but received mixed reviews and lacked the charm of the original.

Arum continued: "There's a rematch clause and Tyson has exercised the rematch clause and that fight will take place either at the end of the year or the beginning of next year.

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Atletico are keen for Partey to sign a new contract given that his current deal has a release clause of just under £50million, with Diego Simeone's side seeking to increase that clause while retaining an emerging talent.

Honourable colleagues, you are aware that I am the Chairman of this Committee and I will not ambush my colleagues in terms of when documents are submitted to them, because we will need to digest most of these documents clause by clause.

The complaint says that, based on a 2019 contract with Liberty, Falwell has a non-disparagement clause with Liberty, and an indemnification clause that is redacted in the complaint publicly filed in court.

As a result, the state’s license was “so burdensome as to be oppressive,” which violated the Texas Constitution’s Due Course of Law Clause (the equivalent of the Due Process Clause under the U.S. and Louisiana Constitutions).

The case was then sent back to the Indiana Supreme Court to decide two questions: how to apply the Excessive Fines Clause and if forfeiting Timbs’ car would violate that Clause.

This clause is complemented by clause 4.6 where the player expressly assigns the copyright to his photographs to the club and grants to the club, permission to exploit his image for promotional purposes.

Unfortunately, the Nigerian constitution which imported immunity clause from the Crown (common law) has failed to place an equilibrium between the clause and public interest.

According to the Article 21 Clause 1 sub Clause 4 of the GFA statues which stipulates that clubs that fail to exhaust all internal modes of conflict resolution and seek redress at the court of law shall be expelled from the league.

Both bills are currently before Senate committees and set to undergo clause-by-clause review.

Further, in clause 2 of 108 is instructive that the motion, moved in accordance with clause (1), should specify the particulars of the allegation.

It states "The chilling effect of clause 26 (2)(d), and the non-qualification of unlawful in the entirety of clause 26(2) on media freedom and the free flow of information in the public interest cannot be overstated.