What's the difference between acquit and conduct?

Acquit


Definition:

  • (p. p.) Acquitted; set free; rid of.
  • (v. t.) To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite.
  • (v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
  • (v. t.) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.
  • (v. t.) To clear one's self.
  • (v. t.) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was, however, acquitted of criminal charges over this.
  • (2) Several top police commanders were acquitted, and Mubarak and his sons were found not guilty of corruption charges.
  • (3) An MRF sergeant was acquitted of attempted murder following a trial in 1973.
  • (4) She was then tried and acquitted on phone-hacking charges in 2014, leaving her to work out how to restart her career.
  • (5) 9 January 2012: Anwar is acquitted of sodomy charges.
  • (6) He was acquitted of assault by beating after a four-day trial in which his alleged victim, protester Nicola Fisher, declined to give evidence.
  • (7) After the murder he replaced Morgan at Southern Investigations to work alongside Jonathan Rees, who was tried for the murder and acquitted.
  • (8) While he was acquitted of rape, his remark that he took a shower after having sex with an HIV-positive woman to minimise the risk of infection caused fury.
  • (9) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand grenade.
  • (10) Colonel Jorge Mendonca was acquitted of failing to ensure that his men did not mistreat prisoners who were being held at a British detention centre in Basra, southern Iraq .
  • (11) In 2005 Mallah was acquitted of two terrorism offences but pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Asio officials.
  • (12) It’s about why this government chose to not upgrade Don Dale and to throw children in a derelict male prison.” Lawrence said the problems of juveniles in NT prisons had to be addressed “by a system that’s properly resourced, providing nothing less than best practice which is acquitted by fully qualified and professionally trained staff, creating appropriate behavioural programs and education for adolescent offenders of various types and backgrounds”.
  • (13) The 58-year-old, who recently served a four-month ban by the Football League for failing to pay tax on a yacht, was acquitted of customs offences on the Range Rover, which had been imported from the United States.
  • (14) Two recent high-profile cases have made the headlines: a doctor accused of administering drugs that hastened the deaths of seven elderly patients was acquitted, and France's high court authorised doctors to stop treating and feeding a young man who had been in a vegetative state on life support for six years.
  • (15) An inquest last year ruled that Harwood unlawfully killed him, but a trial jury acquitted the officer of manslaughter in July.
  • (16) If the various Ivan Milat murders had been tried individually he would almost certainly have been acquitted.
  • (17) Two years ago, Olmert was acquitted of separate corruption charges relating to his dealings with a US businessman, which had forced his resignation as prime minister in 2008.
  • (18) However, Azmi and others said that a series of terrorist cases in recent years in which Muslims had been suspected, investigated and often incarcerated for long periods before being acquitted had damaged trust in the police and, more broadly, the government.
  • (19) • This clarification was posted on 30 March 2011: An editing error in the footnote above wrongly suggested that all six men convicted, and later acquitted on appeal, of the Birmingham pub bombings were represented by Gareth Peirce.
  • (20) He directed them to acquit Payne of manslaughter and of intending to pervert the course of justice.

Conduct


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
  • (n.) Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
  • (n.) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
  • (n.) That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
  • (n.) The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
  • (n.) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
  • (n.) To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.
  • (n.) To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.
  • (n.) To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.
  • (n.) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
  • (n.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
  • (v. i.) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
  • (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
  • (2) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
  • (3) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
  • (4) The experiment was conducted on 3 groups of calves.
  • (5) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (6) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
  • (7) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
  • (8) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
  • (9) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (10) It is concluded the decrease in cellular volume associated with substitution of serosal gluconate for Cl results in a loss of highly specific Ba2+-sensitive K+ conductance channels from the basolateral plasma membrane.
  • (11) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
  • (12) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
  • (13) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (14) Studies were conducted into the relationship between arthrosis and previous trauma.
  • (15) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
  • (16) Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted at both times.
  • (17) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
  • (18) Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of acute (24 h) thermal stress on anterior pituitary function in hens.
  • (19) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
  • (20) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.