What's the difference between agreement and concordat?
Agreement
Definition:
(n.) State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
(n.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.
(n.) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
(n.) The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(4) Interadjudicator agreement was stronger on 'originality' than on 'aesthetic pleasingness'.
(5) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
(6) Reasonably good agreement is seen between theoretical apparent rate-vesicle concentration relationships and those measured experimentally.
(7) The data for the eubacterial ribosomes are in full agreement with the model of the 50S protein topography derived from immunological data.
(8) Cytochemical studies on renal peroxisomes were in agreement with these biochemical findings.
(9) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(10) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(11) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
(12) In agreement with the data in the literature, melanocytes incubated with IFN-gamma acquire HLA-DR, -DQ, and -DP antigens.
(13) These calculated values are compared with observed values and implications of the agreement are discussed.
(14) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(15) These data were in agreement with those from a previous comparative study which had a very different research design and a somewhat different type of schizophrenic population.
(16) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
(17) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(18) Time-resolved tyrosine fluorescence anisotropy shows global correlation times broadly in agreement with the NMR results, but with an additional faster correlation time [approximately 600 ps].
(19) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
(20) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
Concordat
Definition:
(n.) A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything.
(n.) An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801.
Example Sentences:
(1) RMT and drivers’ union Aslef have signed a concordat aimed at stopping it spreading further in any form.
(2) To keep faith with the government's commitment to localism, the plan will fall short of instructing commissioners to stop using the units, as demanded by pressure groups, but most such groups have signed up to a concordat of support for the programme.
(3) The trend towards mergers is pronounced in London – Camden and Islington are to appoint a joint chief executive, and Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham have agreed a "concordat" with a view to sharing services – but it already goes far beyond the capital.
(4) The concordat is a voluntary agreement based on goodwill, and the mayor expects every company signed up to honour their pledge.” Galliard confirmed it is launching the development in Hong Kong this weekend and then in the UK next weekend.
(5) • Improving crisis care and waiting times – the crisis concordat works towards ensuring there is access to crisis services and that at all times these are responsive and as high in quality as other emergency services.
(6) Furthermore, the gulf between the latest recommendations – from more access for families to a concordat on care - and the reality facing families, commissioners and frontline staff is too wide.
(7) Fishing is devolved so, apart from dealing with Europe, Scotland also has a concordat with England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
(8) When I visited Oxleas mental health hospital recently to launch our Crisis Care Concordat, staff demonstrated how they're taking action to reduce the use of restraint and offer more supportive, compassionate crisis care.
(9) Driving what appears to be an emerging concordat between David Cameron and the SNP leader, Alex Salmond, is a belief that both sides stand to gain quite substantially from agreement over boundary changes in return for a "devolution max" that stops just short of full independence for Scotland .
(10) The concordat sets out four commitments which require signatories to be clear about their use of animals in research; to work more closely with the media and public; to be proactive in explaining the value and limitations of animal research; and to report annually on their progress.
(11) In both countries – despite a number of positive initiatives, including the Crisis Care Concordat in Britain , attempts to improve police training as well as the introduction in some places of “street triage”, where health professionals accompany police on calls – the injury and death of vulnerable citizens after being restrained has been an enduring and shameful occurrence.
(12) Meanwhile the government’s Winterbourne joint improvement programme fell apart , despite a concordat signed by 48 organisations; numerous meetings; endless talk; initial fake cheeriness and a hefty budget.
(13) The concordat approach is simply transparency on their terms."
(14) The day before last week’s election, leaked minutes from the meeting of a key mental health steering group, the Crisis Care Concordat , warned of an NHS “system failure” that was leading to large numbers of people in mental distress turning to A&E for help, due to inadequate community-based mental health services.
(15) During his two administrations, the government succeeded in reducing inflation by trimming the system of automatic wage indexation and negotiated a new concordat with the Vatican to replace the 1929 Lateran Pact.
(16) In 1989 he signed a similar concordat with his Orthodox brothers, and in 2000 he welcomed Pope John Paul II to Egypt.
(17) More than 70 UK organisations have signed the concordat on openness in animal research, which compels them to be clear on why, how and when animals are used in experiments, and to explain the benefits, harms and limitations of the research.
(18) An ensuing concordat will detail as yet undefined moves to make use of animals more transparent, though a major public awareness campaign looks likely.
(19) Wendy Higgins, at Human Society International, said: "This concordat's version of openness is a sanitised, rose-tinted version of animal research that gives the misleading impression of honesty but the very unpalatable truth about what animals can endure in labs will remain hidden in the shadows."
(20) "Those supporting animal research, the signatories to this concordat, are perfectly entitled to roll out a public relations strategy explaining their support for animal research.