What's the difference between assurance and continence?

Assurance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
  • (n.) The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
  • (n.) Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
  • (n.) Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
  • (n.) Betrothal; affiance.
  • (n.) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.
  • (n.) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (2) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (3) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (4) The absence of uniform definitions prevents meaningful intersystem comparisons, prohibits explorations of hypotheses about effective interventions, and interferes with the efforts of quality assurance.
  • (5) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
  • (6) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
  • (7) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
  • (8) "Recent developments have once again brought into question the validity of assurances by the US about its use of Diego Garcia," say the MPs.
  • (9) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
  • (10) The scheme has an important role in histopathology quality assurance.
  • (11) At the very least, Arsenal have assured themselves of a place in the Europa League.
  • (12) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
  • (13) When accreditation is viewed and administered appropriately, it is an opportunity for self-improvement and a tool for quality assurance.
  • (14) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
  • (15) Current residency training does not assure competency in all of the procedures the general internist does in practice.
  • (16) Ten patients (16.67 per cent) of the mortality group were in the ninety-ninth percentile of risk, whereas these factors or variables of similar weight produced an equivalent risk of only 0.34 per cent of the survivors; thus, operative death in these circumstances could be predicted with an estimated 98.0 per cent assurance.
  • (17) This is a correlative study of normal anatomy of the lumbosacral spine and pelvis demonstrated by SPECT and radiography in order to assure that morphologic detail resulting from SPECT is recognized and matched with radiographic landmarks in the same area.
  • (18) Until the dental profession defines quality to include psychological, sociologic, and economic factors and establishes measurable standards of performance, dental quality assurance cannot exist in any meaningful way.
  • (19) A comprehensive quality assurance (QA) program should be implemented for all teleradiology and picture archival and communications (PACS) systems.
  • (20) Until that point, Bravo had looked assured, often straying 30 yards off his goal-line and confident enough to try a couple of passes that many goalkeepers would consider too risky.

Continence


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Continency

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
  • (2) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
  • (3) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
  • (4) Piling refugees on trains in the hopes that they go far, far away brings back memories of the darkest period of our continent,” he told Der Spiegel.
  • (5) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
  • (6) Persistence in the treatment of these patients is essential because multiple operations often are necessary to achieve continence.
  • (7) Ninety-two per cent of patients who irrigated their colostomies gained fecal continence.
  • (8) To overcome the problem of incontinence which failed to respond to standard measures, an animal model was designed for continent diversion without cystectomy.
  • (9) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
  • (10) 12 children (38%) showed modifications of bladder-sphincter equilibrium, without acquiring socially sufficient continence.
  • (11) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
  • (12) She attributes her interest in helping the continent to a "better perspective" on life derived from Kabbalah.
  • (13) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
  • (14) Measurements have been made continously with an electrochemical cell sensitive to oxygen.
  • (15) About 53% of the continent’s total land mass is used for agriculture.
  • (16) The potassium concentrations in erythrocytes, serum and urine were continously determined in 3 patients who had taken acetyldigoxin (45 to 100 tablets Novodigal à 0,2 mg) in order to commit suicide.
  • (17) Besides first follow-up results of patients with bladder substitution or continent urinary diversion, analysis of experimental investigations and functionally comparable clinical conditions enables an insight into potential following physiopathological interrelationships.
  • (18) We conclude that the Kock continent urostomy offers an important alternative to noncontinent forms of diversion.
  • (19) On the basis of continence results from these patients, the influence of the primary operation on postoperative anorectal continence is discussed.
  • (20) Individuals undergoing delayed bladder closure without iliac osteotomy had no notable difference in the incidence of bladder dehiscence (p greater than 0.5) but they had a statistically significant difference in the ability to gain urinary continence (p less than 0.01).