What's the difference between behalf and intercede?

Behalf


Definition:

  • (n.) Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
  • (2) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
  • (3) The success and failure of various therapeutic attempts made in behalf of this patient have been monitored by repeated Tl-201 administrations.
  • (4) The following correction was made on Tuesday April 3 2007 Dr Seyed Safavi would like to make it clear that he was conducting research on his own behalf, and not for his brother General Yahya Rahim Safavi, as we stated in the article below.
  • (5) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
  • (6) The details are a bit sketchy but I've just had it confirmed from Old Trafford that the people who were in Spain, apparently negotiating on their behalf for Ander Herrera, were not sent there by the club and can accurately be described as 'imposters'.
  • (7) Insurance claims for medical services submitted on behalf of a group of workers in the construction industry were collected over a 20-month period.
  • (8) He was bidding on behalf of an unknown and clearly stupendously rich buyer.
  • (9) I am writing on behalf of people who have dementia but do not have family or friends and who are in hospital.
  • (10) That conclusion fits with Gerry Kelly’s remark last week on behalf of Sinn Féin that “the IRA has left the stage”.
  • (11) Abaifouta, who is now president of the Hissène Habré victims association in Chad, spends his days campaigning on behalf of others like him; tireless in his efforts to bring justice, he has worked closely with Human Rights Watch and other groups.
  • (12) I also think to some Republicans, even the word ‘association’ is slightly sketchy.” He then told the crowd that he was accepting the award “on behalf of psychopathic billionaires everywhere.
  • (13) Andrew Strauss accepted the award for team of the year on behalf of the England cricket team while a moving tribute to Seve Ballesteros - presented the lifetime achievement award by José María Olazábal - was streamed live from Spain.
  • (14) A line was drawn, and to extend it to the Winter Games would have been a strong, principled move on behalf of the league.
  • (15) The Guardian understands that the club were not prepared to risk testing the legal framework of the system and pulled out of the deal, later seeking to distance themselves from another unsuccessful bid by claiming the lawyers were "not acting on their behalf".
  • (16) Money intervened on his behalf, and the case was dropped his week, but he says the matter was hugely stressful and time consuming.
  • (17) The fact that they failed to do so is beyond terrible – it’s unconscionable.” Lichter Immigration, where Cintron works, has filed multiple state bar complaints against Taylor Lee & Associates on behalf of five women, including Lourdes Chavez Ramirez.
  • (18) The GMB union said that there was a risk that vulnerable people could be made homeless, but in the event of insolvency, Southern Cross's 31,000 homes would be run by local authorities or landlords on behalf of an administrator.
  • (19) Among the special cases considered are: the competent adult patient who refuses treatment on religious or privacy grounds; the incompetent patient whose own wishes were never expressed, but whose family refuses treatment; the incompetent patient who expressed the wish not to be treated before becoming incompetent; and parents who refuse treatment on behalf of their child.
  • (20) His lawyers argued their ability to organise witnesses on Terry's behalf was seriously hampered by Chelsea's demanding season.

Intercede


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pass between; to intervene.
  • (v. i.) To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead in behalf of another; to mediate; -- usually followed by with and for; as, I will intercede with him for you.
  • (v. t.) To be, to come, or to pass, between; to separate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Overall, the six neurotoxins were shown to be composed of highly conserved amino acid domains interceded with amino acid tracts exhibiting little overall similarity.
  • (2) It is unusual for an official of Dai's rank to intercede.
  • (3) With few exceptions, pulmonary complications in the immunocompromised host will proceed to death unless the clinician intercedes.
  • (4) This may be the opportunity for the profession to proceed with controlled quality assessment before outside agencies intercede.
  • (5) This technique also eliminates circumferential compression of the interceding tissues as well as providing easy access to the wound for daily care.
  • (6) Asked by Jon Snow whether he had interceded with the Saudis over the planned execution of the Shia activist Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Cameron admitted he himself had not raised the issue directly but the foreign secretary and the embassy had.
  • (7) These data were interpreted to indicate that: (a) the effect(s) of trypsin in reversing (or preventing) tolerance at the cellular level does not depend necessarily on the susceptibility of the tolerogenic moiety to the action of the enzyme, and (b) the generation of the tolerance-inducing signal involves metabolic cellular processes that can be delayed somewhat by low temperature leaving such cells relatively more susceptible to intercedent manipulations such as trypsinization.
  • (8) Andreotti, who had interceded on behalf of endless supplicants like a true padrino (godfather), did not use his power to pursue personal wealth or to enhance the prospects of his closest relatives.
  • (9) The data provided offer further evidence that these homologues can intercede in blood coagulation.
  • (10) These results suggest that some patients with arteriovenous malformations and without clinical deficits who are near a critical level of "near ischemia" may be thrown out of balance by an acute interceding event.
  • (11) Because children with CLP have additional difficulties (i.e., facial disfigurement, speech and language deficits, multiple surgeries), professionals should intercede to prevent or interrupt negative psychosocial outcomes, particularly for adolescent girls.
  • (12) New adjuncts include two promising surgical barriers, one absorbable (oxygenated regenerated cellulose, or Intercede) and one nonabsorbable (polytetrafluoroethylene, or Gore-Tex).
  • (13) Thus it is possible to suppress both clinical signs and pathology by interceding at several steps of the cell-mediated immune reaction.
  • (14) She calls for other closet prolifers to become involved by praying and interceding, becoming informed by contracting prolife groups, spreading the word, voting for prolife candidates, and educating local media and elected officials.
  • (15) Treatment efforts in the past have focused on attempts to prevent such injury by interceding during labor in term infants and improving neonatal care in preterm infants.
  • (16) Both local and long-distance dependencies were explored, as well as the effects of additional interceding words.
  • (17) A decade later, during a long siege involving the Montana Freemen in 1996, outside intermediaries were so common the FBI allowed a clutch of them, including a couple who went off script and were never invited to intercede again.
  • (18) The ability of traditional sex therapy to intercede successfully in these problems is discussed.
  • (19) Ordinary Russians do the same to Putin during a yearly phone-in (in this year’s show, he gave a schoolgirl a puppy, and offered to intercede for a young man whose girlfriend wouldn’t marry him).
  • (20) The proper use of new diagnostic tests may permit the physician to intercede effectively if these life-threatening diseases are suspected.