What's the difference between announcement and avowal?

Announcement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
  • (2) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (3) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (4) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
  • (5) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
  • (6) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
  • (7) Last week the WHO said the outbreak had reached a critical point, and announced a $200m (£120m) emergency fund.
  • (8) As James said in Friday’s announcement, his goal was to win championships, and in Miami he was able to reach the NBA Finals every year.
  • (9) The PUP leader told the ABC his announcement would have international significance.
  • (10) The green fund contributions already announced (which include a $3bn pledge by the US and a $1.5bn pledge by Japan revealed during the G20 summit) “show very clearly that if we want the emerging countries and the more fragile countries to participate in this global growth, we have to ... support them,” Hollande said.
  • (11) The announcement on feed-in tariffs will be welcomed by Labour backbenchers, who staged the biggest revolt of Gordon Brown's leadership over the issue.
  • (12) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (13) The decision, announced earlier this week, will see the region’s libraries reduced from 51 branches to 35.
  • (14) Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will be charged with false accounting in relation to their parliamentary expenses, it was announced today.
  • (15) The arrival on Monday was another first for the two countries since Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama’s visit to the Caribbean island.
  • (16) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
  • (17) The announcement of Dame Helen Ghosh's departure from the top job at the Home Office the morning after the Olympics is likely to leave Whitehall looking "maler and paler".
  • (18) "We knew people would be interested in the announcement, but it's fair to say that the scale of the excitement, right across the world, took us all by surprise.
  • (19) The joint Premier League leaders announced the 21-year-old, who can play in central midfield or at right-back, had signed a contract until 2020.
  • (20) Last month Walsall council announced it would close 15 of its 16 libraries, and residents told the Guardian they stood to lose vital community spaces as well as reading resources.

Avowal


Definition:

  • (n.) An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How can she be so self-avowedly hip (Revolver, reefer) and yet so naive (swinging)?
  • (2) Discontent with the monarchy is no longer confined to avowedly republican parties or rightwingers, who have never forgiven the king for introducing democracy and transforming the state handed to him by dictator General Francisco Franco on his death in 1975, when Spain's historically fragile monarchy was restored for the second time in a century.
  • (3) The avowedly antisemitic National Socialists of the NRM are the extreme wing of this spectrum, Poohl says.
  • (4) For an avowed elitist, he had a remarkable ability to talk to a crowd.
  • (5) That, and the strong possibility that Obama was not referring to just those 1.5 million, but to some larger percentage of the 51% of Americans who disapprove of the job he's doing – a group that, statistically speaking, can't just consist of avowed racists.
  • (6) Snyder mentions Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán , who avowedly seeks the creation of an “illiberal” state, and who, says Snyder, “looks fondly on that period as one of healthy national consciousness”.
  • (7) But the rise of Ukip looks to me to be legitimising a very different view, in which the average English person will be characterised as an avowed Eurosceptic, a fierce opponent of immigration, a hang-'em-and-flog-'em merchant, and a hater of government.
  • (8) In September the telegenic Tsipras, an avowed atheist, made a trip to Rome to hold talks with Pope Francis.
  • (9) They are avowedly non-violent in their approach, but do not shy away from supporting specific “mujahedeen” groups in current conflicts, though this support has rarely been found to go beyond the rhetorical and is confined to wars within the Muslim world.
  • (10) In November 1962, six years after she left the Communist party, an MI5 officer wrote, in a file stamped “secret and personal”: “She is known to have retained extreme leftwing views and she takes an interest in African affairs as an avowed opponent of racial discrimination.
  • (11) In another video Shekau made an avowal that "we will continue to carry out such school attacks till our last breath".
  • (12) For his father, an avowed “leftist liberal”, Romanos is typical of a younger generation who, although middle-class and privileged, have been radicalised by growing up in a nation whose political establishment is blamed for the devastation wrought by its brush with bankruptcy.
  • (13) What DfE ministers and civil servants will make of this ideological clash is anyone’s guess but, since the avowed aim of the free school programme is to let a thousand flowers bloom, it would be surprising if Livingstone’s Hammersmith proposal failed.
  • (14) But they also mentioned the possibility of him cracking down on immigration, despite the mayor of London being avowedly pro-immigration .
  • (15) The Russian targets so far include a small number of avowedly secular fighters who have received limited backing from the United States and the Gulf states.
  • (16) I have remained a party member and avowedly a Trotskyist.
  • (17) Like Mandela, he was a black revolutionary, a prisoner turned president who avowed racial reconciliation and became a darling of the west.
  • (18) Factor analyses of the children's responses yielded three interpretable factors: a tendency to despise the victims of bullies; general admiration for school bullies; and avowed support for intervention to assist the victim.
  • (19) Sexual function after prostatectomy, particularly perirenal, has been reviewed in 128 patients treated in private practice for the past twenty years by one urologist with an avowed bias to encouraging postoperative sexual function.
  • (20) That may not be all that surprising given the march of Europhobia through the Tory party, but it is nevertheless striking that so many Conservatives preferred an avowed enemy of their party who describes the prime minister as a conman over their current coalition partner.