What's the difference between accede and adhere?

Accede


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.
  • (v. i.) To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.
  • (v. i.) To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like Cameron, who is disappointing Eurosceptics with the timidity of his reform programme, the Swiss have been forced to accede to the realities of negotiating with a much bigger player.
  • (2) Abbas is under considerable pressure from Israel, the US and Britain in particular to renounce the option for the Palestinian Authority to accede to the ICC.
  • (3) But the jurors acceded to the convicted soldier's plea to have the hope of being reunited with his son and sentenced him to life with the possibility of parole after less than 10 years.
  • (4) He said there was no plan for McCluskey and Miliband to meet shortly, and also insisted there was no plan to accede to the Unite request for the issue to be discussed by the full national executive.
  • (5) The centre has collapsed: after acceding to Mrs Merkel's terms, Mr Papandreou's Pasok has gone from being a reliable centre-left party of government to a husk of its former self.
  • (6) It found the PA had failed to ratify international conventions on child labour after it acceded to the UN Conventions on the Rights of the Child.
  • (7) David Cameron is moving towards signing up Boris Johnson to his campaign to keep Britain in a reformed EU after signalling that he is prepared to accede to the London mayor’s demand to assert the sovereignty of parliament.
  • (8) Villa did not accede to his requests for a weekly salary of around £60,000, leading to Everton attempting to buy him, but the latter’s offer of around £5m was rejected.
  • (9) Renowned scientific societies acceded to this action.
  • (10) By the end of the episode, a secret letter from Matthew granting his share of the estate to Mary – passing over George, his son – has turned up; Lord Grantham has bravely acceded to a partnership with his most peevish daughter; Lady Cora has found a new maid and Carson has come to terms with his past.
  • (11) There followed protracted negotiations between the US and Israeli governments which resulted, in November 2009, in Netanyahu reluctantly acceding to a temporary construction freeze in West Bank settlements.
  • (12) It is more essential than ever for the institutions and the political leadership of Europe to accede to the realism with which the [Greek] government has been moving for the past three months.
  • (13) There is a clear need for an estimate to be produced on migration whenever EU countries accede.
  • (14) The besieged president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, finally acceded to the demands of the Houthis on Thursday.
  • (15) All the parts need to be acceded permanently and in the proper way.
  • (16) Hopes of ending eight months of political paralysis in Spain have risen after its acting prime minister acceded to a list of demands from the centrist Ciudadanos party and finally agreed to submit himself to a confidence vote in a bid to avoid the country’s third general election in a year.
  • (17) The prime minister ruled out race, poverty and spending cuts as factors behind last week's riots, but showed signs of wanting to look deeper into their causes by acceding to Labour's demands for a public inquiry.
  • (18) North Korea's use of nerve agent in murder sends a deliberate signal to foes Read more North Korea is thought to have one of the world’s largest stockpiles of chemical weapons, and is one of six countries not to have signed or acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) , according to the US non-profit organisation the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
  • (19) For the tour Van Gaal has had many of his wishes acceded to with regard to ensuring best possible preparation.
  • (20) Following further lobbying from Malone, AT&T acceded to his demands and hived off AT&T's content arm, rebadged as Liberty Media.

Adhere


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
  • (v. i.) To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.
  • (v. i.) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (2) Preincubation of the bacteria at 56 degrees C for 30 minutes and ultraviolet irradiation resulted in a noticeable decrease in adherence.
  • (3) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
  • (4) In this study, tritiated leucine placed on the isolated maternal side of amniochorion with adherent decidua was incorporated into newly synthesized tritiated human decidual prolactin.
  • (5) In normal lymphoreticular tissue, IgGEA selectively bound to areas colonized by macrophages, IgMEAC to B-dependent areas, whereas E showed no adherence.
  • (6) Results of this study provide preliminary evidence that tracheal adherence and HA of B avium are closely related.
  • (7) Bacterial adherence to vascular sutures was evaluated in vitro using radioactively labeled Staphylococcus aureus.
  • (8) In contrast, newly formed secondary myotubes are short cells which insert solely into the primary myotubes by a series of complex interdigitating folds along which adhering junctions occur.
  • (9) Alveolar macrophages (greater than 97% esterase positive) were isolated form bronchoalveolar lavage fluids by adherence onto plastic.
  • (10) IgG-gold also adhered to M cells and excess unlabeled IgG inhibited IgA-gold binding; thus binding was not isotype-specific.
  • (11) Newborn suppressor T cells were characterized as being non-adherent to Ig-anti-Ig affinity columns, soybean agglutinin receptor negative (SBA-), and susceptible to lysis by anti-T-cell specific antiserum plus complement.
  • (12) Approximately 70% of DN thymocytes became bound to FN-precoated culture plates, whereas 30 to 40% of DP and only 10 to 20% of SP cells adhered to FN.
  • (13) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
  • (14) E. coli strain S22-1, serotype O103:H2, isolated from a child with diarrhoea, contained two plasmids; one of these (pDEP12) hybridized with the CVD419 DNA probe derived from a plasmid found in E. coli O157:H7 and associated with expression of fimbriae and ability to adhere to Intestine 407 cells.
  • (15) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
  • (16) At present significant effects have been documented only for the stage of bacterial adherence to the damaged valve.
  • (17) Binding of fibronectin, an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein, to Candida albicans was measured, and adherence of the fungus to immobilized ECM proteins, fibronectin, laminin, types I and IV collagen, and subendothelial ECM was studied.
  • (18) Thrombospondin (TSP), a 450-kDa trimeric glycoprotein secreted by platelets and endothelial cells at sites of tissue injury or inflammation, may play an important role in polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) adherence to blood vessel walls before diapedesis.
  • (19) [3H]-leu leukocyte adherence inhibition assay ([3H]-leu-LAI) was modified to identify activity of Sp-TFM.
  • (20) is related to the presence of adherent clots along cerebral arteries and when severe may lead to cerebral infarction.