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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
What does "that found its first measure of closure" mean?
Does it mean "it established the first measure to ban/suspend Ryan Braun"?
Context:
The call went to Major League Baseball a few days ago. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/8034 was ready to deal. He wasn't going to admit everything. Truth is, he didn't really admit anything – no details about all the performance-enhancing drugs the league knew he had used, no straightforward admissions of guilt. He just wanted to end this 19-month charade, and if that meant bargaining for a suspension, so he would.
Of the many things Ryan Braun is – a liar nonpareil, a serial doper, a raging narcissist – he is, above all, a self-preservationist. Never did he show that instinct more than when he publicly impugned Dino Laurenzi Jr., the innocent man who happened to collect a vial of Braun's urine that started baseball down the sordid, tortuous path that found its first measure of closure Monday when http://sports.yahoo.com/news/brewers--ryan-braun-agrees-to-65-game-suspension-mlb-arod-220004864.html: 65 games gone, hundreds of apologies owed, $3 million-plus lost and one man left to sort through the damage done by his decisions and his alone.
More:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ryan-braun-doped--lied-and-cared-only-for-himself-050550708.html
Context:
The call went to Major League Baseball a few days ago. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/8034 was ready to deal. He wasn't going to admit everything. Truth is, he didn't really admit anything – no details about all the performance-enhancing drugs the league knew he had used, no straightforward admissions of guilt. He just wanted to end this 19-month charade, and if that meant bargaining for a suspension, so he would.
Of the many things Ryan Braun is – a liar nonpareil, a serial doper, a raging narcissist – he is, above all, a self-preservationist. Never did he show that instinct more than when he publicly impugned Dino Laurenzi Jr., the innocent man who happened to collect a vial of Braun's urine that started baseball down the sordid, tortuous path that found its first measure of closure Monday when http://sports.yahoo.com/news/brewers--ryan-braun-agrees-to-65-game-suspension-mlb-arod-220004864.html: 65 games gone, hundreds of apologies owed, $3 million-plus lost and one man left to sort through the damage done by his decisions and his alone.
More:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ryan-braun-doped--lied-and-cared-only-for-himself-050550708.html
Top answer
Closure means "a satisfying conclusion or resolution" The first measure of closure probably refers to that single, first decision leading to the end result of closure. The rest of the sentence implies that there are many more actions required before closure is reached.
- Closure means "a satisfying conclusion or resolution" The first measure of closure probably refers to that single, first decision leading to the end result of closure.
- The rest of the sentence implies that there are many more actions required before closure is reached.
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Closure means "a satisfying conclusion or resolution"
The first measure of closure probably refers to that single, first decision leading to the end result of closure. The rest of the sentence implies that there are many more actions required before closure is reached.
The first measure of closure probably refers to that single, first decision leading to the end result of closure. The rest of the sentence implies that there are many more actions required before closure is reached.
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NL888Thank you. But I failed to understand the meaning of closure.Closure happens when there has been a big war or debate, and after it is over, the injured parties accept the result. They become satisfied.
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If a murderer is executed twenty years after his crime, the families of the victim sometimes feel a sense of closure.
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