What's the difference between attendance and courtier?

Attendance


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Attention; regard; careful application.
  • (v. t.) The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence.
  • (v. t.) Waiting for; expectation.
  • (v. t.) The persons attending; a retinue; attendants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
  • (2) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
  • (3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (4) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
  • (5) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
  • (6) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
  • (7) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
  • (8) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
  • (9) Data from 579 medical students from the classes of 1979-80 through 1983-84 attending a midwestern medical college were analyzed via moderated multiple regression.
  • (10) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
  • (11) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
  • (12) The level of infection by Chlamydia trachomatis in patients attending different units of urogenital diseases was evaluated.
  • (13) Information from nurses differs from that provided by attending physicians.
  • (14) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
  • (15) Simon Cross, 46, his partner Lizzy Gilliland, 42, and their son Gabriel, two, from Nottingham, expressed the views of many attending.
  • (16) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
  • (17) Finally, the contribution of regular dental attendance to periodontal health is discussed.
  • (18) It showed that the proportion of patients attending with recurrent herpes had increased from 18% in 1972 to 31% in 1982.
  • (19) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
  • (20) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.

Courtier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
  • (n.) One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the bad memories - the bloody purges, the violent anarchy of the Cultural Revolution - are officially classified as "mistakes", committed when Mao was old and no longer in control of his evil courtiers.
  • (2) Maybe Geithner, the veteran courtier, never made an effort to get to know the public.
  • (3) Among the most senior honours, the dominance of Sir Humphreys and courtiers is striking.
  • (4) In the published extracts she depicts Buckingham Palace and Clarence House as being at war, with feuding courtiers, dejected aides and dark constitutional menace should Charles III ascend the throne.
  • (5) The pits are filled with figurines of courtiers and animals, and you can see the fossilised remains of wooden chariots.
  • (6) Given the guile of those courtiers, that's quite a task: he'll need all the support he can get.
  • (7) Donald Trump's courtiers bring chaotic and capricious style to White House Read more Patrick Leahy, ranking Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, said Trump “seems intent on precipitating a constitutional crisis”.
  • (8) Washington power-brokers and their media courtiers do not discuss him, and he does not make frequent (or any) appearances on US cable news outlets, but outside of those narrow and insular corridors - meaning around the world - few if any political thinkers are as well-known, influential or admired (to its credit, the Guardian, like some US liberal outlets , does periodically publish Chomsky's essays ).
  • (9) That has left the 33-year-old at the mercy of a range of courtiers.
  • (10) But more likely, the Times has needed encouragement to get to this precipice – Wendi or her courtiers (shades of Princess Diana) are fanning the flames.
  • (11) His curriculum vitae is depressingly like that of most Westminster courtiers - some dabbling in research, a bit of media PR, and time as a Whitehall aide de camp.
  • (12) The duke only resumed public engagements at the World Economic Forum in Davos in late January where he was pursued by reporters and used a short speech “to reiterate and to reaffirm” the existing emphatic Buckingham Palace denials of what courtiers described as “lurid and deeply personal” claims.
  • (13) Francis suggested that some members of the Vatican's large bureaucracy, which was last year plunged into crisis during the "Vatileaks" scandal, were indeed courtiers; but the main problem with the curia was its self-interested nature.
  • (14) "He is not just some leader with lots of money to throw at a football club," a senior courtier said.
  • (15) Like Blatter, Platini is surrounded by courtiers who tell him what he wants to hear.
  • (16) But like his fellow courtiers, Cohen takes his cues from the throne.
  • (17) Speaking of the council of cardinals, the advisory panel that met this Tuesday for the first time in what has been likened to a papal G8, he said: "[They are] not courtiers but wise people who share my feelings.
  • (18) Henry VIII's desperation for a male heir, meanwhile, turned Anne Boleyn's bedroom into a 16th-century Lindo Wing, with every contraction monitored by flocks of ambitious courtiers and the eventual emergence of the conspicuously non-male infant greeted with the sort of reception usually reserved for bears and third-degree cheese burns.
  • (19) Some courtiers – and the sovereign herself – fear that neither the crown nor its subjects will tolerate the shock of the new,” the book states.
  • (20) Still, they meant the Queen's partner had an affinity with her subjects that the ducal stuffed-shirt favoured by her courtiers might not have enjoyed.

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