What's the difference between advise and attorney?

Advise


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
  • (v. t.) To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk.
  • (v. t.) To consider; to deliberate.
  • (v. t.) To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with; as, to advise with friends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
  • (2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (3) Adviser to Solidarity, then member of parliament in 1989.
  • (4) Even though the administration of demethylchlortetracycline did not produce significant decreases in the glomerular filtration rate or renal blood flow in our patient, it is advisable to control the renal function in individuals treated with this drug since it may on occasion determine renal insufficiency.
  • (5) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
  • (6) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
  • (7) For Bush Sr, the dilemma is all the more agonising as some of the White House advisers he now criticises are former employees he bequeathed to his son.
  • (8) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
  • (9) Appropriate vitamin E supplementation is, therefore, advisable for all patients with chronic fat malabsorption who have low serum vitamin E concentrations.
  • (10) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
  • (11) Combining drugs may only occasionally be advisable to supplement a desired effect or to attenuate an unwanted one.
  • (12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
  • (13) Results are discussed in relation to the time of treatment and the pathogenic agent involved, and a classification of the antibiotics into three groups is proposed: recommended; not advised; not sufficiently studied.
  • (14) The experience illustrates the danger of assuming that all pneumococcus peritonitis is the primary variety and the advisability of routine Gram stain of the peritoneal fluid at operation in order to select the appropriate antibiotic.
  • (15) Within 4 months of Holter monitoring, the advised coronary angiography was performed in 77% of the patients with variable threshold angina and in 89% of the patients with fixed threshold angina (p less than 0.05).
  • (16) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
  • (17) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
  • (18) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
  • (19) The independent Low Pay Commission will advise on the path future increases should take, taking into account the state of the economy.
  • (20) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.

Attorney


Definition:

  • (n.) A substitute; a proxy; an agent.
  • (n.) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.
  • (n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.
  • (v. t.) To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
  • (3) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
  • (4) An Associated Press analysis found no evidence that Texas authorities were investigating threats to pharmacies, though the Oklahoma attorney general said he was examining an alleged bomb threat to a pharmacy in Tulsa .
  • (5) At a home less than a block away, a man identifying himself as Tamir’s uncle said the boy’s family was not commenting and referred reporters to an attorney.
  • (6) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
  • (7) The attorney, Thomas Bergstrom, declined to say where in Philadelphia his client will live while prosecutors appeal the superior court ruling.
  • (8) 'Snooper's charter': Theresa May faces calls to improve bill to protect privacy Read more Ken Clarke, the Conservative former home secretary, and Dominic Grieve, the Tory former attorney general, suggested there could be improvements to the new laws that overhaul the state’s surveillance powers.
  • (9) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
  • (10) The shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said Heydon had “got it wrong” in his decision and had “not really approached this as an ordinary, fair-minded person would”.
  • (11) Decisions concerning appropriate treatment are often made by patients, attorneys, the disability determination system, employers, and judges for extraneous reasons, which include financial gain or personal bias and often reflect lack of current information.
  • (12) I want to make it very clear that the state’s attorney’s office did not release the Freddie Gray autopsy report,” she said.
  • (13) Because many of these issues are unresolved, it is important for health professionals to be aware of current professional standards and guidelines, as well as to consult with the hospital's attorney or risk manager when confronted with a legal or ethical dilemma.
  • (14) An official in the Chicago police department’s office of legal affairs, Victor Castillo, has told the Guardian’s attorney that he needed the mayor’s office to sign off on the disclosure of at least one Homan Square-related document.
  • (15) Police and an attorney for the Gray family have said previously that Gray suffered a severe spine injury.
  • (16) His attorneys allege that the department contracts with the Apothecary Shoppe to provide the drug set to be used in Taylor’s 26 February lethal injection.
  • (17) Police are expected to seek talks with government legal officials and may seek guidance from the attorney general.
  • (18) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
  • (19) Tim Casey, Arpaio's attorney, said the position of the Sheriff's Office "is that it has never used race and will never use race in its law-enforcement decisions."
  • (20) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.