What's the difference between biddable and compliant?
Biddable
Definition:
(a.) Obedient; docile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without the moderate Davutoğlu, a former foreign minister, to balance and temper Erdoğan’s behaviour, and with a more biddable prime minister in his place – reports suggest Erdoğan’s son-in-law, the energy minister Berat Albayrak, may get the job – the precarious EU refugee agreement could soon be in serious jeopardy.
(2) These officers are, evidence has shown, entirely biddable.
(3) It can never further harmony, however, that anyone who has done a stint of full-time childcaring, on a reasonable income, will know exactly what a privileged SAH mother means by "a difficult job" – in a home equipped with labour-saving devices – once a biddable child is over three.
(4) What if, instead of choosing Truman – whom the pair psychopathologise as having unresolved "gender issues" and portray as weak, biddable and blustering ("To err is Truman," 1940s Republicans sneered) – as Roosevelt's vice-presidential candidate in the 1944 presidential election, the Democratic convention had once more chosen the now little-known Henry Wallace to be FDR's running mate?
(5) Thus, cut out of one of the most important decisions on his own company, he promises to be a more biddable, accommodating figure than Mr Hester – whose opposition to speeding up the sale of RBS is what got him chucked overboard.
(6) Analysing a genome, stripping out the surplus genes, recreating the rest artificially and then inserting the new chromosome into a cell from which the existing one had been removed – all this is merely the modern equivalent of spotting the fact that it would be a good idea to breed from the fattest and most biddable sheep.
(7) And, some on the right would whisper in the ears of biddable journalists, the poor really had no place in the world’s biggest property bubble.
(8) He was easygoing and biddable, with a genuine smile and ceaseless energy.
(9) It is clear that the most visible of the sons, Saif and Saadi, have their own lines of communication and influence with the various state security organs, not all of whom are as easily biddable as they would like.
Compliant
Definition:
(a.) Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 8 men and 3 women were clinically stable, were known to be compliant, and had no clinical evidence of aluminum overload; they were not receiving vitamin D supplements; and they had been on dialysis for an average of 65.6 months (range: 13-188 months).
(2) The Russians call it [the Crimea operation] ‘fast power’ – there are no democratic encumbrances, executive power is sovereign, the legislature, the military, the media, the judiciary are compliant.
(3) New management at Lifeline changed the expenses policy to make it legally compliant and asked Flowers to pay the money back.
(4) "While some lenders were MMR-compliant ahead of the official launch at the end of April, using May data to assess the impact of the new rules is perhaps premature," he said.
(5) Increasing deterioration of qualitative PPG values of deep-valve assessment was found in both compliant and noncompliant patients at each testing interval.
(6) The lungs of the group treated with thyrotropin-releasing hormone plus steroid and the rabbits treated only with steroid were more compliant than the controls without surfactant therapy, and showed significant improvements in protein leak.
(7) With increasing age, the airways were found to be less compliant, and the tracheal relaxation time constant was observed to decrease.
(8) Stress reduced the quality of problem solving in both compliant and noncompliant parents, but even under high stress, compliant parents demonstrated better problem-solving abilities than noncompliant parents.
(9) In relatively stiff lungs, an even distribution of elastance may increase susceptibility to barotrauma, because the more compliant zones are subjected to a greater strain.
(10) It measures the biologic action of treatment among compliant persons.
(11) They wanted food, beverages and personal products to be sharia-compliant, but showed more flexibility in products and services such as finance, insurance and travel.
(12) All customer letters from DG Solicitors were compliant with the OFT debt recovery rules, and made clear that the firm was a trading name of HSBC and that its people were HSBC employees.
(13) That process could see Kenya’s national anti-doping agency being declared non-compliant – although insiders were keen to stress the chances of the country being removed from the Olympics were slim because the International Olympic Committee would need to kick Kenya out.
(14) However, although NA is correlated with health compliant scales, it is not strongly or consistently related to actual, long-term health status, and thus will act as a general nuisance factor in health research.
(15) A ""steal phenomenon'' or passive collapse in compliant coronary lesions during vasodilatation seems unlikely; in fact, patients were free from coronary symptoms, and the electrocardiographic alterations occurred only in seven patients in Group 2, who had a greater left ventricular mass index and required a larger pressure drop to return the diastolic pressure to normal.
(16) (Guardian Australia) Government ads could be outside the guidelines The independent advertising watchdog has warned that some of Labor's pre-election advertising campaigns for its disability and education reforms may not be compliant with the government's own advertising guidelines.
(17) It said “terminating a sub-contract agreement is the strongest message we can send to those who are found to be non-compliant”.
(18) Pressure-volume curves from nine ferrets (including the above six) revealed almost infinitely compliant chest walls so that lung and total respiratory system curves were essentially the same.
(19) Initial measurements of the time-varying wall shear rate at two sites in a compliant cast of a human aortic bifurcation are presented.
(20) The Cohen CAD Scale, based on Horney's psychoanalytic theory, measured compliant, aggressive and detached interpersonal orientations.