What's the difference between behalf and vicarious?

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.

Vicarious


Definition:

  • (prep.) Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.
  • (prep.) Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.
  • (prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.
  • (prep.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A second objective was to compare responses to two different passive film tasks, which differed in outcome uncertainty and the degree of vicarious active coping achieved through identification with the role portrayed by the actors.
  • (2) Recommendations are made in the areas of confidentiality, informed consent, standards of care and vicarious liability.
  • (3) Physiological substances (Mg, taurine) increase ionic transfer and there is a vicarious effect between Mg and taurine.
  • (4) But sometimes I know he's living it vicariously through me."
  • (5) Various EMG measures were obtained in order to determine the occurrence of vicarious instigation and conditioning.
  • (6) Recent evidence has underscored the importance of parental models and vicarious learning in the etiology of pain behavior.
  • (7) Fear-relevant (snakes, spiders, and rats) and fear-irrelevant (flowers, mushrooms, and berries) pictures were compared as conditioned and instigating stimuli in a vicarious classical conditioning paradigm with skin conductance responses as the dependent variable.
  • (8) Although two cases studied proved the notable acceleration of vicarious excretion in dialysis patients, this acceleration appeared only with high total blood iodine content.
  • (9) Adult phobics were administered treatments based upon either performance mastery experiences, vicarious experiences., or they received no treatment.
  • (10) chief executive, Peter Vicary-Smith, said: "A huge opportunity has been missed to inject some much needed competition into retail banking.
  • (11) Negative emotional states were induced in second-grade children by one of four processes, all of which involved social rejection content: cognition that focused on (a) the self (thinking about oneself being rejected by a peer) or (b) another person (thinking about a peer being rejected); or experience that related to (c) oneself (actually being socially rejected) or (d) observing another (vicarious: seeing a peer be socially rejected).
  • (12) Sequential single replacement of nucleosides within the decanucleotide d[GGGAATTCCC] (7) by means of a butanediol-1,3 residue allowed us to obtain a set of ten decanucleotides containing 'vicarious' (V) carbon-phosphate fragments.
  • (13) The mechanisms and pathophysiology of vicarious contrast excretion are discussed.
  • (14) Kevin and Perry Go Large is an excuse to wallow vicariously in the misery of adolescence.
  • (15) This dysphonia can occur as a compensation for anatomic or physiologic alterations within the larynx (vicarious type) or as isolated ventricular fold hypertrophy unaccompanied by other obvious laryngeal disorders (usurpative type).
  • (16) Most of us, however, are arm-chair adventurers: we enjoy the thrills vicariously, and these days they often come with the help of modern science and technology, through television and home video games.
  • (17) Whether it is vicarious liability or otherwise, they are liable.
  • (18) Similarly, senior staff at the Havens [centres for victims] suggested that the lack of occupational health support available to SOIT [sexual offences investigative techniques] officers leaves them susceptible to ‘vicarious trauma’.
  • (19) This concordance of mtDNA phylogenetic pattern across independently evolving species provides strong evidence for vicariant biogeographic processes in initiating intraspecific population structure.
  • (20) Musk is one of the high-profile investors, alongside Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the actor Ashton Kutcher, in Vicarious, a company aiming to build a computer that can think like a person, with a neural network capable of replicating the part of the brain that controls vision, body movement and language.