What's the difference between arrondissement and department?

Arrondissement


Definition:

  • (n.) A subdivision of a department.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) De Bruijn also described the attack on Facebook: "Last night, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, Olivier and I were badly beaten up just for walking arm in arm.
  • (2) Investigators are also considering whether he planned to carry out his own suicide attack in the 18th arrondissement of the French capital, and perhaps backed out.
  • (3) The three men - described by a police union spokesman as “commandos” – are on the run after walking into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris’s 11th arrondissement at about midday on Wednesday and fleeing in a getaway car driven by a fourth.
  • (4) Paris’s 10th and 11th arrondissements are full on Fridays, and home also to the Bataclan, a pagoda-like theatre painted in vivid yellows, reds and citruses, which looms over the Boulevard Voltaire like an eccentric aunt.
  • (5) - video explainer An Isis statement about the evening’s bloodshed claimed an attack in the 18th arrondissement, where none took place, but investigators did find a suicide belt and car linked to Abdeslam.
  • (6) Tour Montparnasse, Paris Photograph: Steven Strehl When it opened in 1973, towering over the 14th and 15th arrondissements in the south of the capital, almost no one had a good word to say about the first – and only – skyscraper to rise in central Paris.
  • (7) He has already indicated that we would rather live with Trierweiler in their modest nondescript flat in Paris's 15th arrondissement with its Ikea furniture than the 370-room Elysée Palace with its private cinema and 900 staff, including white-gloved factotums who set the pendulums on its scores of gold clocks.
  • (8) The 16th arrondissement of Paris has only around 2.5% of its properties designated as council housing, far short of the 20% required by law.
  • (9) Television cameraman Charles Pitt said he was outside a cafe in the city’s 11th arrondissement where people were shot at about 9.10pm.
  • (10) At Aux Délices du Palais, customers in the long queue snaking to the door in the 14th arrondissement agreed that Teixeira and his family made exceedingly good bread, not to mention excellent macarons – for which they have also won prizes – and mouthwatering pâtisserie.
  • (11) Le Bataclan, in the 11th arrondissement, was hosting a show by Eagles of Death Metal in front of a crowd of around 1,500 when three terrorists armed with assault rifles entered the room and began shooting and throwing hand grenades.
  • (12) The following year, we were away for eight months – Ben was offered a post-doctoral fellowship in Italy and, when that finished, we moved to Paris because it was cheaper to rent an Airbnb property in the 20th arrondissement and commute to London once a week via Eurostar than it was to rent a flat in as good a location as our place in the UK.
  • (13) A fter a midnight appearance on stage among rock singers and party stalwarts at Paris's Bastille to address the crowds gathered to celebrate his election, François Hollande , who has so far stayed true to his "Mr Normal" reputation, arrived back at his nondescript, modern apartment building in Paris's 15th arrondissement at 2am, ready to start work as France's new president-elect.
  • (14) The well-developed community psychiatric services in the 13th Arrondissement use a large number of places in sheltered accommodation.
  • (15) Photograph: AP After allegedly dropping three of the suicide bombers off at the Stade de France on the 13 November, he headed for the Place Albert Kahn in the 18th arrondissement of the French capital, where he bought a mobile phone sim card at about 10pm.
  • (16) It is significant that in the omnibus film Paris Vu Par … (Six in Paris, 1964), Chabrol's episode takes place in the upmarket 16th arrondissement with Chabrol himself playing the self-satisfied père de famille .
  • (17) He introduced into his beautiful capital trees and flowers, and populated it with statues.” Story of cities #13: Barcelona's unloved planner invents science of 'urbanisation' Read more Today, Haussmann is remembered by the grand boulevard that bears his name, on which the Palais Garnier sits, and a statue on its corner with Rue de Laborde in the 8th Arrondissement.
  • (18) In the summer, two miles (3.3km) of highway from the Tuileries in the 1st arrondissement and the Arsenal port near Bastille in the 4th arrondissement along the right bank of the Seine were closed to traffic.
  • (19) They were panicked, wounded, screaming, blood was running all over them, people were having panic attacks, it was horrific.” The bar was locked down but after police allowed it to reopen, she began running down the street towards the 3rd arrondissement to get away as fast as possible.
  • (20) After a few minutes he ventured gingerly out into the street in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, packed minutes earlier with diners, revellers, and friends enjoying an end of week beer.

Department


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Act of departing; departure.
  • (v. i.) A part, portion, or subdivision.
  • (v. i.) A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
  • (v. i.) Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
  • (v. i.) A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
  • (v. i.) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
  • (2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (3) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (4) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
  • (5) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
  • (6) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
  • (7) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
  • (8) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
  • (9) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
  • (10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
  • (11) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
  • (12) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
  • (13) The records of all patients treated for thymoma in the Department of Radiotherapy of the University of Torino between 1970 and 1988 were reviewed.
  • (14) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
  • (15) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (16) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
  • (17) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
  • (18) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
  • (19) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (20) In the last 2 years at our department we have developed a new technique in which the resorption has up to now been minimal.

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