What's the difference between aid and sponsorship?

Aid


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
  • (v. t.) Help; succor; assistance; relief.
  • (v. t.) The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.
  • (v. t.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.
  • (v. t.) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.
  • (v. t.) An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
  • (2) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
  • (3) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
  • (4) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (5) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
  • (6) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
  • (7) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (8) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
  • (9) Duesberg contends that HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause AIDS.
  • (10) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
  • (11) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (12) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
  • (13) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
  • (14) Grisham said she and other aides had not been aware of the trip and “appreciate everyone’s understanding”.
  • (15) We have recently described a nonnucleoside compound that specifically inhibits the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the causative agent of AIDS.
  • (16) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
  • (17) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
  • (18) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
  • (19) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
  • (20) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.

Sponsorship


Definition:

  • (n.) State of being a sponsor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
  • (2) Last year the BBC took responsibility for paying for the World Service out of the licence fee and boosted its income by controversially becoming the first licence fee-funded operation to take advertising and sponsorship .
  • (3) A spokesman for the DWP said: "It's disappointing that a small number of organisations are protesting against their [Atos's] sponsorship of the Paralympic Games, especially given the improvements which have been made to the work capability assessment in the past two years."
  • (4) Both Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain are believed to have fallen foul of the FFP rules with sponsorship deals related to each clubs' owners.
  • (5) The letter follows a missive that Murphy sent a month ago to Nascar boss Brian France, asking him to reconsider the NRA sponsorship.
  • (6) Kettering didn't let the matter lie - after all, clubs like Bayern Munich had been coining it in on the continent for years - and so, with Derby and Bolton, they put forward a proposal to the FA regarding shirt sponsorship.
  • (7) The show has been co-produced by ChannelFlip, the company which has made webshows for talent including Harry Hill and David Mitchell.The sponsorship deal has been struck by media agency Carat.
  • (8) Socar, meanwhile, has signed one of Uefa’s biggest sponsorship deals .
  • (9) Kafala sponsorship system At the crux of the debate over how Qatar and its Gulf neighbours treat migrant workers, human rights groups have long called for the kafala system that ties workers to their employers to be abolished.
  • (10) When it was announced that Oscar Pistorius had been charged with murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, Nike pulled one of its ads from its sponsorship campaign .
  • (11) The Mr Benn approach also opens up lots of fancy dress options for TV sponsorship bumpers and blipverts.
  • (12) Sponsorship of writing had little impact on the quality of emotions experienced during the process.
  • (13) Speaking in Manila, Obama said the goal of the new round of sanctions was to change the Russian calculation in its alleged sponsorship of separatists in Ukraine.
  • (14) Like many, I assumed that the accumulated gripes about ticketing (thoroughly justified in this case), Zil lanes, G4S failures, McDonald's sponsorship and over-heavy security would have ensured healthy levels of Olympic alienation and even hostility.
  • (15) Papa Massata Diack, who is the licensed agent for negotiating sponsorship deals in developing markets, has stepped down from his position as an IAAF marketing adviser until an ethics commission investigation into the doping claims has been completed.
  • (16) It is not known how much Wonga paid for the deal, which includes broadcast, online and mobile sponsorship, but last year's show was sponsored by pizza company Domino's for £1m .
  • (17) The problems at the Tower of Football workers are not isolated, despite Qatar's pledges to monitor salary payments and abolish the kafala sponsorship system, which stops migrant workers changing job or leaving Qatar without their employer's consent.
  • (18) If you look at the sponsorship and marketing, look at the bidding contracts, and you will see more,” he said after Pound had laid out just how badly the IAAF’s processes and a collective lack of curiosity had failed to deal with the corruption in their midst.
  • (19) Virgin Media has signed up as a top-tier sponsorship partner of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games , with the expectation that brand ambassadors and Olympic champions Mo Farah and Usain Bolt will front a major advertising campaign next year to support the deal.
  • (20) Noting reports that Dahlin had connections to Chinese human rights lawyers at the centre of a major government crackdown, the newspaper warned: “Things will get complicated if Dahlin funded illegal actions of the arrested lawyers using overseas sponsorship.” The Global Times said Chinese courts should now deal with Dahlin “in accordance with the law”.

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