0 present participle of guillotine --
1 to cut someone's head off using a guillotine: --
During the French Revolution, thousands of people were guillotined.
2 to set a fixed time before a final vote must be taken on a particular law in Parliament: --
That makes the guillotining of the debate even more important.
There is a fundamental difference between timetabling and guillotining.
With 1997 hindsight, can he now say that the guillotining of the poll tax legislation was justified?
Why does she not accept this reasonable amendment instead of guillotining it and preventing it from being discussed?
If he meant that the opinion of parents should be retained, why not accept the amendment, instead of guillotining discussion of it?
Of course, there are many precedents for guillotining constitutional measures.
It is seriously over-congested and the guillotining regime is far too aggressive.
He is wrong to use the term "guillotining".
