What's the difference between befit and mediatorial?

Befit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To be suitable to; to suit; to become.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) IN ORDER THAT ASIAN AMERICANS BE MORE ADEQUATELY PROVIDED WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO: (1) have a thorough educational campaign over a long period of time to help Asians overcome their negative prejudices against mental illness, (2) devise culturally relevant diagnostic techniques, and (3) have treatment consonant with the cultural backgrounds of the patients and befitting the role expectations of the patients.
  • (2) The road narrative befits a nation in love with the motor car and networked with roads – but also a country that is so vast.
  • (3) Meanwhile, as befits two heavyweights, there was, before Paris, an edge detectable in Tinseth's voice as he talked of the "strong rivalry" and accused Airbus of holding back orders for the show.
  • (4) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
  • (5) The sort of residence befitting the former leader of the most powerful nation on earth.
  • (6) At the FSA she gave a press conference dressed, as befits her name, in leather jacket and trousers and was promptly dubbed Sexy Suzi by the tabloids.
  • (7) His chairman, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, was more magnificently pompous, as befits an ex-foreign secretary.
  • (8) With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of “Southwark Street” incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.
  • (9) It was conjectured that subjects in the positive condition were annoyed by the disabled person's display of "normal" characteristics, whereas in the negative condition they sympathetically accepted the disabled person's inadequacies as befitting a victim of severe misfortune.
  • (10) A toast, marmalade optional, to Colin Firth, who has quit a film version of Paddington with a grace befitting this most cordial of bears.
  • (11) Steve Bruce bemoaned Chris Foy’s decision not to dismiss Gary Cahill for what he described as a dive more befitting the ballet as Hull City endured a ninth match without a win after succumbing to the Premier League leaders, Chelsea.
  • (12) Otherwise we fail to understand the thinking of others, or to realize deep down that the brother or sister we wish to reach and redeem, with the power and closeness of love, counts more than their positions, distant as they may be from what we hold as true.” To emphasize the point he added: “Harsh and divisive language does not befit the tongue of a pastor, it has no place in his heart; although it may momentarily seem to win the day, on the enduring allure of goodness and love remains truly convincing.” The pope ended his speech with two recommendations.
  • (13) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
  • (14) As befits Lewis, it was a move that was made both for his team, a way to motivate them and perhaps deflect media attention away from them, and for himself, he certainly didn't exactly seem to mind all that media attention, at least most of the time.
  • (15) Lady Gaga: Artpop Last month, as befits the first single from the third album by a multi-platinum selling popstar, the video for Lady Gaga's Applause was simultaneously premiered on the US breakfast TV show Good Morning America and video screens in New York's Times Square.
  • (16) As befitted a youth movement that had been born and flourished under Thatcherism, dance music had always been marked by a sharp entrepreneurial spirit: unlike punk or psychedelia, there was never much talk of "selling out" in clubland.
  • (17) "His behaviour is not befitting of any player wearing a Liverpool shirt and Luis is aware that he has let himself and everyone associated with the club down.
  • (18) As befits its goals, human perception of visual motion largely evades this diversity of cues for image form; direction and rate of motion are perceived (with few exceptions) in a fashion that does not depend on the physical characteristics of the object.
  • (19) Officials have repeatedly sought to justify the millions spent on Nkandla, insisting it was essential to provide Zuma with security befitting a head of state.
  • (20) Another UN official who worked in Damascus early in the conflict told the Guardian: “The UN country team knew from the early days of the conflict that neither the government nor its authorised list of local associations for partnership with the UN could be considered as befitting the humanitarian principles of independence, neutrality and impartiality.

Mediatorial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a mediator, or to mediation; mediatory; as, a mediatorial office.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
  • (2) The mediatory role of the central-m-cholinergic systems in the mechanisms of COH and that of n-cholinergic systems in the estrogen-induced suppression of COH is suggested.
  • (3) In addition, the insulin-like effect on enzyme release induced by the GTP non-hydrolysable analog, GTP-gamma-S, and its sensitivity to the pertussis toxin are in favour of a mediatory role exerted by the G proteins system, in the transduction of some actions of insulin.
  • (4) It is assumed that norepinephrine is involved in the mediatory system activating goal-directed motivational behaviour, but it does not constitute, as it seems, the major mediator of the reinforcement system.
  • (5) The data presented demonstrate that AldDG activity is connected with those cerebral structures that are supposed to possess, in the process of common and mediatory metabolism, a high level of natural synthesis of aldehydes.
  • (6) The liquor levels of enhancement mediatory amino acids, aspartic and glutaminic, rise early in poisoning, while concentration of inhibition mediator glycine tends to decline.
  • (7) The results of the present study suggest that prostaglandin E2 and CV-3988 may have acted via a similar mechanism, possibly involving inhibition of a mediatory role of platelet-activating factor in endotoxic shock.
  • (8) Complex combinations of the constant functional load exerted on the organ with the metabolic effects of the mediatory block in the tissues and disorders of their blood supply are the causes of tissue energy deficiency.
  • (9) It is possible that the structural rearrangements observed in the serotoninergic and in the conjugated to it mediatory systems make the base of functional disorders in the neocortex and are accompanied with certain changes in the integrative activity of the brain.
  • (10) In cough, on the other hand, they operate concurrently, a mediatory role for RARs and a facilitatory role for SARs.
  • (11) These results indicate that perifused bovine parathyroid cells respond to secretagogues with a time course comparable to that observed in vivo and that the temporal changes in cytosolic calcium concentration and cellular cAMP are consistent with a mediatory role for these factors in low calcium- and dopamine-stimulated secretion, respectively.
  • (12) At the same time in subjects of advanced age the reactivity of the mediatory link in systolic hypertension remains intact, this manifesting itself in a significantly increased noradrenaline passage, as compared to a low initial level following administration of insulin.
  • (13) While these findings do not strengthen the link between exercise and stress response, they demonstrate the significant mediatory roles of habituation and anticipation in laboratory studies employing a test-retest design.
  • (14) The immediate appearance of the inhibitory effect suggests the mediatory role of the nervous system in this response.
  • (15) Captopril pretreatment inhibits the aldosterone response, suggesting that the aldosterone stimulatory properties of 5-HTP require the presence of angiotensin II, although it is unclear whether it acts in a mediatory or permissive capacity.
  • (16) The mediatory stage in development of the pulmonary innervation begins on the 3d month of the human intrauterine development.
  • (17) IL-6 production by UMR-106 osteogenic osteosarcoma cells was positively modulated by IGF-I, indicating that osteoblasts are likely to be the cells responsible for increased IL-6 production by the bones, and that IL-6 might be a mediatory of IGF-I-stimulated bone resorption.
  • (18) Some regularities of mediatory function of lipoxygenase systems have been found.
  • (19) In examination of patients with thyrotoxicosis, aged from 14 to 24 years, there was revealed a reduction of the activity of the mediatory link of the sympathico-adrenal ssystem without any connection with age, the severity and duration of the disease, and also with the efficacy of drug therapy.
  • (20) All the pharmacological drugs studied could exhibit the mediatory effects on opioid peptides in heart via alterations in activity of vegetative nervous system affecting the myocardium.

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