What's the difference between amidst and midst?

Amidst


Definition:

  • (prep.) Alt. of Amid

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thousands of desperate Syrians remain stuck inside Syria on the Turkish and Iraqi borders amidst mounting insecurity and with winter fast approaching.
  • (2) a tumour formation amidst normal tissue, or to exclude necrotic areas.
  • (3) "Whilst business will not mourn the passing of many of the bodies announced today, some were doing valuable work which must not be lost amidst the widespread cull."
  • (4) Amidst the economic crisis, this is happening the world over.
  • (5) The majority of nerves were vascular, although several non-vascular endings were observed at the growth plate and amidst marrow cells.
  • (6) The tools of contemporary applied mathematics reveal important hidden regularities amidst the ongoing interactive feedback phenomena occurring in interactional or dynamical systems in nature where everything affects everything else.
  • (7) In those tumors in which immunological cross-reactivity to PTH was detected, the capability of secreting PTH may be restricted to derepressed cell clones amidst other neoplastic cells, whereas the greater heterogeneity of ectopic PTH may reflect hormone cleavage by proteolytic enzymes in the tumor that is less specific than the Pro-PTH cleaving enzyme in the parathyroids.
  • (8) The man who started the move, the man who produced that one moment of skill amidst the madness, adjusted his suit.
  • (9) Amidst all of this relief I still feel a sense of concern … if it’s right for me to be free, then it’s right for all of us to be free.” He paid tribute to Fahmy as an “extraordinary professional” and to Mohamed as “the most amazing family man”, calling both men his brothers.
  • (10) Occasionally small cells were observed amidst large ones during the 24 hour nidation period, i.e.
  • (11) But despite all this, and amidst all the promise and expectations, it is crucially important that this election should be seen to be free and fair, so that Ukraine and its people can finally turn over a new leaf after the revolution.
  • (12) This first report of the natural human infection caused by R. dentocariosa is the precedent for the definite establishing of this aerobic glucose fermenting actinomycete amidst the untraditional potential pathogens of human actinomycosis.
  • (13) Today, the family unit can be helped to maintain normal life amidst intensive medical treatment; the child is acutely ill at times, but also chronically ill, and even well.
  • (14) The criteria of benignity (age under 35, presence of calcification amidst the opacity) are not always absolute.
  • (15) If, through the creation of the Red Cross and later Médecins Sans Frontières, the right to healthcare even in conflict has become the norm for more than a century, then we can achieve the same for education in 2014, and prise open a window of hope amidst the increasing despair.
  • (16) Interestingly, the histology of inhibin treated rat prostate manifested amidst the epithelial lining, an appearance of apoptotic bodies which are considered to be indicative of cell death.
  • (17) 'We sit starving amidst our gold', by Jeremy Deller - a block print of his image of Roman Abramovich's superyacht being destroyed by the 19th-century arts and crafts designer William Morris.
  • (18) The role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the evaluation of thoracic disease is emerging amidst much debate and study.
  • (19) "Beware lest amidst men the flame of foolish ignorance overpowers you."
  • (20) The unyielding response of Italy, France and Germany came amidst a tsunami of global condemnation for Trump’s decision to renege on an agreement made by 195 countries after decades of negotiation.

Midst


Definition:

  • (n.) The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.
  • (n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs.
  • (prep.) In the midst of; amidst.
  • (adv.) In the middle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
  • (2) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
  • (3) Associating themselves with the freedom demonstrations has given Pegida protests an air of moral respectability even though there are hundreds of rightwing extremists in their midst, as well as established groups of hooligans who are known to the police, according to Germany’s federal office for the protection of the constitution.
  • (4) Gove's intervention has been seen as unhelpful by some Conservative party officials who are in the midst of ensuring that this week's expected vote on an amendment to the Queen's speech does not become a vote on Cameron's authority.
  • (5) In 2017, the focus is turning to the people who are suddenly in our midst.
  • (6) Theresa May has rejected a claim by the British Red Cross that the NHS is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.
  • (7) Social media has seized on the story, turning the Eastern Washington University’s professor of African studies into a figure vilified and mocked for cultural appropriation in the midst of fraught debates over transgender identity and police shootings of black people.
  • (8) There is a rich populist history of winning big victories for social and economic justice in the midst of large-scale crises.
  • (9) In the midst of those debates, Texas physicians will mount an all-out effort to push health-related issues to the top of the lawmakers' agenda.
  • (10) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
  • (11) To use a slightly dodgy analogy, standing one's moral ground in the midst of free-market capitalism might be a delusion akin to the idea of Socialism In One Country: if you believe in the usual left-liberal bundle of causes, politics is probably the best arena to pursue them, rather than fixating on what you do with your money.
  • (12) They provoked threats of a player boycott, led sponsors to withdraw support and created a racially charged image problem in the midst of the NBA playoffs that even President Barack Obama remarked upon.
  • (13) It is hard to think of a better provisional epitaph than that supplied in the midst of his later troubles by Martin Palouš, one of the first signatories of Charter 77: "Havel was the man who was able to stage this miracle play.
  • (14) Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which is already in the midst of a restructuing exercise, said it had been penalised by the methodology used by the regulators and appointed UBS and Citigroup to advise it of its options and “explore all strategic alternatives for the bank”.
  • (15) Can the conscious patient in the midst of a medical emergency provide adequate informed consent for a clinical research protocol?
  • (16) Companies fail to do so at present because the world is in the midst of a shale gas bonanza, and most gas companies are focused on finding new sources of supply.
  • (17) Evra had earlier railed against the "traitor" in the squad's midst, "who told the press what was said" at half-time against Mexico.
  • (18) Matt Shardlow, head of Buglife, said: "The report [confirms] we are in the midst of an extinction crisis and it is happening here in England under our very noses."
  • (19) Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday evening in the midst of two days of talks on the referendum campaign, Philip Hammond signalled that resistance in eastern Europe, especially to migration from the Middle East, was making it easier for London to make its case against freedom of movement within the union, since most recent EU immigrants to Britain are from the newer member states in the east.
  • (20) 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.

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