What's the difference between assurance and verify?

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.

Verify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.
  • (v. t.) To prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate.
  • (v. t.) To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To maintain; to affirm; to support.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (2) Measurement of adenosine in coronary effluent and in ventricular tissue by radioimmunoassay verified that no residual elevated adenosine remained following perfusion and washout.
  • (3) Thorough clinical investigation of the patient revealed sarcoid involvement of the skin, lungs, liver and lymph nodes and an extensive retroperitoneal surgically-verified lymph tumour.
  • (4) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
  • (5) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
  • (6) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (7) In the other case, verified as bilateral multiple adrenocortical adenomas, the autonomus function of both adrenals was proved by dexamethasone suppression scanning.
  • (8) The National Basketball Players Association has asked the NBA to ban Sterling from attending playoff games and to impose the league's maximum penalties if the comments are verified to be his.
  • (9) The presence of pseudoaneurysm among the patients with abnormal scans was verified at operation in 23 of 25 patients.
  • (10) A clinical and electroencephalographic study of 107 neurologically normal children with partial seizures was undertaken to verify the existence and determine the frequency of epileptic syndromes reported in selected populations.
  • (11) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
  • (12) All four requirements were experimentally verified in calf trachea.
  • (13) A phase II trial aiming to verify the effectiveness of a regimen including carboplatin and vindesine was performed.
  • (14) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
  • (15) In order to verify whether or not all the POMC neurons are equally affected by sex steroids, we arbitrarily divided the arcuate nucleus rostro-caudally into four equal portions and used an in situ hybridization technique to evaluate POMC gene expression in these different regions of the arcuate nucleus in the female rat.
  • (16) The actual existence of the specific mitochondrial glyoxalase II was verified by showing that all of the activity of the crude mitochondrial pellet was still present in purified mitochondria prepared in a Ficoll gradient.
  • (17) The benefits of holistically identifying clients' ability to mobilize coping resources is that nurses can plan intervention more effectively if these categorizations can be consistently verified.
  • (18) One hundred and forty-four had non-allergic and 69 allergic asthma verified retrospectively by positive skin prick test in 1988.
  • (19) In the majority of the children, the diagnosis was verified by the results of a histological study of liver biopsy specimens.
  • (20) The pirlimycin reaction product was verified as being pirlimycin-3-(5'-adenylate) by NMR spectroscopy and MS. As a result of purification, this lincosaminide nucleotidylating and inactivating enzyme was separated from the macrolide phosphorylating enzyme also present in the cell-free extract.