If it will please Caesar / To be so good to Caesar, as to hear me, / I shall beseech him to befriend himself.

No longer do filibustering Senators take the floor and speak until they are physically unable to filibuster any longer. Now, a filibuster typically begins when a Senator or group of Senators signals their intent to filibuster – which can be done by a private conversation with the majority leader or by quietly placing a bill or nomination on hold. Given the modern Senate's scarce floor time, this threat is usually enough to table the disputed issue until the dissenting Senators cave or until there are definitely enough votes to invoke cloture.

A nurse of the Dunhuang medical community gives a patient an intravenous injection at the central hospital of Zhuanqukou town, Dunhuang city, Gansu province, Nov 27, 2018

This income enabled him to give up general bookselling in 1762 and buy Linden House, a mansion valued at a colossal £12,000, in the suburbs at Turnham Green, where he was a regular at the Presbyterian church, kept a carriage and lived in some style. He became, through literature, 'an independent, untrading gentleman' […]