What's the difference between affiliation and federation?

Affiliation


Definition:

  • (n.) Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
  • (n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.
  • (n.) Connection in the way of descent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
  • (2) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
  • (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) The affiliation set up a joint venture to operate two clinics, one on Scholl College's traditional campus and one at the teaching hospital.
  • (5) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
  • (6) Belaïd was an outspoken critic of these groups, whom he accused of being affiliated to Ennahda.
  • (7) In view of recent reports demonstrating that illicit cocaine use may cause rhabdomyolysis, we reviewed the collective experience of a university-affiliated medical center to identify patients with cocaine-induced rhabdomyolysis.
  • (8) To examine the relationship between stress and upper respiratory tract infection, 235 adults aged 14-57 years, from 94 families affiliated with three suburban family physicians in Adelaide, South Australia, participated in a six-month prospective study.
  • (9) At first, cadres worked undercover, organising clothes sales and other charitable events without stating their true affiliation.
  • (10) In order to assess the most important predictors of practice behavior, the authors conducted a survey of 163 junior and senior medical residents at five training hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
  • (11) Immunocytochemical tests with eight monoclonal antibodies against either bovine or human insulin and seven polyclonal antibodies against bovine insulin were carried out to determine the presence of insulin-like neuropeptides in the brain and affiliated neuroendocrine structures of the insect Leucophaea maderae.
  • (12) Sometimes it helps when an enterprise can point to the success of an affiliate in another country.
  • (13) Research laboratory of a metropolitan, university-affiliated medical center.
  • (14) When the mirror gave subjects visual access to neighboring animals, facial expressions, sexual, and agonistic behaviors increased, whereas affiliative behavior decreased compared with when no mirror was present.
  • (15) An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, reiterating the gunmen’s call to kill those who insult the prophet Muhammad.
  • (16) Results indicated that the clients' family relations improved, as did their leadership and affiliation skills.
  • (17) CtW works with pension funds sponsored by unions affiliated with Change to Win, a coalition of US unions representing nearly six million members.
  • (18) The aim is to: make people aware and encourage prevention in the work environment; situate the hand in a preventive context; show the importance of the hand as a work-tool; present the quantitative and qualitative extent of diseases and accidents of the hand; make the interest and difficulties in collecting information known (especially about professional diseases and workers not affiliated to the CNA); stimulate continuing search of information about prevention in the work environment.
  • (19) University hospital-affiliated physicians rated clinical and hospital pharmacists significantly higher than community pharmacists for six subject areas, and they also ranked clinical pharmacists over hospital pharmacists on four subject areas and considered them more reliable than other pharmacy drug information sources.
  • (20) Now let me be clear: we are indeed at war with al-Qaida and its affiliates.

Federation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of uniting in a league; confederation.
  • (n.) A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
  • (2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (3) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
  • (4) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
  • (5) Non-essential Federal government services will remain closed until a budget to pay for them has been agreed.
  • (6) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
  • (7) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
  • (8) Republicans embraced it as a counter to federal school initiatives.
  • (9) "Greed is not good," said Preet Bharara, the New York federal prosecutor bringing the case.
  • (10) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
  • (11) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
  • (12) Yet private student loans – given out by banks and financial institutions to the students who can’t get a federal loan – don’t get as much attention as the federal system.
  • (13) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
  • (14) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
  • (15) She said it was impossible to attribute the increase in Indigenous women’s incarceration rates to one specific factor, but law and order policies of federal and state governments should be examined.
  • (16) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
  • (17) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
  • (18) With the new federalism, nutritionists must articulate their role in comprehensive health care and market their services at the state and local levels in addition to the federal level.
  • (19) Schools that are not in compliance risk losing millions in federal funding.
  • (20) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.