What's the difference between abscondment and decampment?

Abscondment


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
  • (2) Eleanor Hawkins' father relieved after Malaysian court frees tourist Read more The judge, Dean Wayne Daly, said: “This court accepted the plea of guilty as mitigation.” He also noted the remorse of the tourists, and accepted that although Hawkins was arrested at an airport “there was nothing to show Eleanor was absconding the law”.
  • (3) It says the very nature of the orders carries an inherent risk that the terror suspect will abscond, but that such incidents should not be allowed to undermine the principle that such restrictions should be individually tailored to each suspect.
  • (4) During prime minister’s questions, Cameron said: “We’re making progress, the buck does stop with me, but I wouldn’t mind a bit of cross-party support for the actions we need to take.” The NAO report, released Monday, revealed that one in six foreign offenders living in the community had absconded.
  • (5) I felt so alone.” But if Marina left, under the UAE’s kafala system, she would become an absconding worker.
  • (6) Mazzaro has been on the run for three months and the San Lorenzo captain is suspected of keeping in touch with him throughout that time and helping him abscond.
  • (7) "While the relocation power was used in control orders nobody absconded and the courts consistently upheld them as proportionate and lawful.
  • (8) It was triggered by a man who absconded from quarantine in Freetown, in order to visit his mother at the end of Ramadan.
  • (9) Polanski absconded before the sentencing, however, and has lived in France ever since.
  • (10) In the aftermath of his disappearance, speculation was rife that Xiros, the son of a fundamentalist Orthodox priest, had decided to abscond because he had fallen in love with a woman he met on a previous release from prison.
  • (11) The Guardian comments that people will be re-detained because of the risk of absconding.
  • (12) Judge Alistair McCreath said: "When a defendant makes a considered decision to abscond as you did he or she has shown a contemptuous disregard for that important obligation and that in itself matters."
  • (13) In the course of treatment three absconded and one died from acute pneumonia with respiratory and heart failure.
  • (14) The judge had concluded that because of the "serious" nature of the allegations against Assange, his "comparatively weak community ties" in the UK, and the fact it was believed he had the financial means and the ability to abscond, there was a substantial risk he would fail to surrender to the courts.
  • (15) It is they, overwhelmingly, who absconded to the yes camp; their elders who remained firmly no.
  • (16) Technically, if they absconded [without] the proper process of authorisation in leaving the States, does the US recognise that they’re here?
  • (17) Despite the implicit concession, the immigration minister continued to contend it was Labor’s fault for depriving the customs system of resources, and for not adjusting the security screening settings – even though Sharrouf absconded in December 2013, when the Coalition was in government.
  • (18) The judge, Howard Riddle, said Rancadore should be allowed to return home on police bail on the condition that he lives and sleeps at his address in Uxbridge, reports to the local police station twice daily, wears an electronic tag and puts up £50,000 security in case he absconds.
  • (19) "The home secretary also needs to provide information about the decisions made over Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed's Tpim [terrorism prevention and investigation measures order], how he was able to abscond and what the risks to the public are."
  • (20) The number of children absconding from a Salvation Army home for boys in Queensland reached unprecedented levels at a time a child prostitution ring was believed to be operating in the area, an inquiry into child sexual abuse has been told.

Decampment


Definition:

  • (n.) Departure from a camp; a marching off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
  • (2) The ECB has decamped to Slovakia, Bratislava for today's meeting.
  • (3) Morsi had decamped from Itahadiya palace, the traditional seat of the president, which is now surrounded by makeshift concrete walls in anticipation of Sunday's protests.
  • (4) Charles's years in Italy had had their disappointments, notably the end of his marriage to his wife, Peggy, who at one stage decamped with a bathing attendant.
  • (5) Originally the article stated that "detectives also conducted a search in the tabloid newsroom while staff were asked to decamp to a nearby bar."
  • (6) The tension ratcheted up when the team decamped to Paris before the show, especially when American Vogue editor Anna Wintour swung by to cast her eye over the work.
  • (7) Speaking from the constituency office where they had decamped for the day of the local and European election polls, the rebel said: "We are a bit unsure about how to deal with the problem of receiving hoax emails.
  • (8) On Saturday, City fans decamped to Wembley to watch their team surprisingly lose to Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup final.
  • (9) But the government eventually decamped first to Valencia, then to Barcelona.
  • (10) Once Yohan Cabaye decamped to Paris Saint-Germain in 2014 Pardew gave up any pretence of adopting a passing style but the downside was that Newcastle, as now, could never be said to be in command of matches.
  • (11) John Darr, the sheriff of Muscogee County in Columbus, Georgia, has created the new facility in an attempt to break the cycle of recidivism by providing them with specialist services to help them deal with the problems they carry with them when they decamp.
  • (12) On Saturday nights, the Musgraves clan would decamp to local oprys around Texas, where Kacey would perform traditional, crowd-pleasing material.
  • (13) After 2010 the Brown government decamped to the opposition benches, its thinking and personnel largely unchanged, with a result that was entirely predictable.
  • (14) The original stated that "the seat's Muslim immigrant community had decamped from Labour en masse to Galloway's fundamentalist call for an immediate British troop withdrawal...".
  • (15) During the spring fair ( Feria de Abril , 30 April-7 May), half the city decamps to the casetas of the Recinto Ferial to parade on horseback, drink sherry with lemonade, and dance sevillanas .
  • (16) With the latter decamping to the north-west, Manchester became the scene of a prolonged final act in which Richard Bevan, the chief executive of the LMA, mediated with Newcastle's board and Keegan's lawyers were briefed for battle.
  • (17) He signed up to an optimistic delivery date of 10 months and, because his writing cell wasn't quite ascetic enough, decamped to Berlin to write in complete isolation.
  • (18) In a gilded room at the Grosvenor House hotel, Uefa's Park Lane base for its Champions League final decampment to London, Michel Platini is extolling England's cherished role in football history.
  • (19) There is a rebranding of the ready-to-wear and the studio is decamping from Paris to LA, where Slimane now lives.
  • (20) At night the tens of thousands decamped within the jungle are impossible to locate – the CAR is regarded as the least light-polluted country in the world , its darkness due to its lack of development.

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