What's the difference between agenda and temporal?

Agenda


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Agendum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
  • (2) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
  • (3) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
  • (4) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
  • (5) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
  • (6) In many ways, they are leading the agenda.” The sustainable growth in focus is funded by UPS.
  • (7) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (8) Although “there are serious questions and doubts in our minds over the government’s seven-day working agenda … it isn’t clear what this strike action is for and what the position of the BMA is now,” he told the Guardian.
  • (9) Obama is expected to offer personal condolences to his counterpart Park Geun-Hye over the tragedy, but the South's unpredictable northern neighbour is set to dominate the agenda.
  • (10) "It's a ticket that is going to win in order to bring out an agenda of transformation.
  • (11) If people approach it in the right way and we show that this is a development agenda – it’s competitiveness, it’s jobs – then why wouldn’t it be adopted.” Read more like this: How much do you know about the circular economy?
  • (12) Afghanistan will be the main item on the agenda at a meeting on Wednesdaybetween Cameron and Barack Obama in the Oval Office on the main day of the visit.
  • (13) This proposal is a purely partisan move that will backfire on the government disastrously.” The Green party accused Osborne of making “efforts to limit the democratic scrutiny of his austerity agenda”.
  • (14) They constitute a template from which a standardized agenda or schedule of inquiry is generated, as needed, for a particular research investigation.
  • (15) While Claude Moraes MEP's committee on surveillance is admirably pursuing this agenda, member states remain unresponsive.
  • (16) Climate change is also high on protesters’ and politicians’ agendas, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for the industrial powers to throw their weight behind a longstanding pledge to seek $100bn (£65bn) to help poor countries tackle climate change, agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.
  • (17) It's not what they say on the streets, but it's a very clear agenda about how you change our economy so it works for all working people and not just a few people at the top."
  • (18) The issue has in some respects been inappropriately dichotomized as a conflict between public health agendas and the traditional priorities of drug treatment.
  • (19) "Every exchange you have with a witness will be analysed and considered in order to reveal a hidden agenda.
  • (20) Climbing Table Mountain and hitting the nightlife are on the agenda too, as well as surfing Cape Town’s more challenging spots, from Long Beach to Kommetjie.

Temporal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
  • (n.) Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
  • (n.) Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.
  • (n.) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (2) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
  • (3) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
  • (4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (5) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (6) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
  • (7) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
  • (8) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
  • (9) In this series there were 45 patients (40%) with independent focal interictal EEG epileptic abnormalities over frontobasal cortex (with or without independent spiking over interomedial temporal region).
  • (10) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
  • (11) It is found that, whereas the spatial resolution achievable with such a system is only dependent upon its temporal resolution, the scattering characteristics of the tissue being imaged will strongly affect the ultimate imaging performance of such a system.
  • (12) Out of 50 epileptics in 31 cases temporal-lobe epilepsy was present, in 15 the seizures and EEG changes were generalized, in 4 cases focal non-temporal-lobe epilepsy was recognized.
  • (13) Many of observed functional changes in freshly reimplanted lungs are temporally related to changes in extravascular water.
  • (14) Treatment modalities included: partial temporal bone resection, subtotal temporal bone resection, total temporal bone resection, radical mastoidectomy followed by radiation therapy, radiation therapy alone, and chemotherapy.
  • (15) The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a temporal association between the introduction of a Fetal Diagnostic and Treatment Center and changes in fetal mortality.
  • (16) We have investigated the temporal pattern of appearance, cell lineage, and cytodifferentiation of selected sensory organs (sensilla) of adult Drosophila.
  • (17) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
  • (18) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
  • (19) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
  • (20) After the fourth dose of L-asparaginase, he presented with severe headache and a CT scan showed a right temporal infarct.