What's the difference between brant and grant?

Brant


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.
  • (a.) Steep.
  • (a.) Steep; high.
  • (a.) Smooth; unwrinkled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brantly said he was first tested for malaria, but to his dismay, the results came back negative.
  • (2) The other missionaries, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol , were recently discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they were treated for several weeks.
  • (3) At the hospital, one person in protective clothing guided another, believed to be Brantly, towards a building.
  • (4) Brantly said the virus was not on the radar when he and his family moved to west Africa two years ago, but he noticed a steady increase in Ebola patients in June and July.
  • (5) On Tuesday, Brantly and his wife, Amber, sat down with NBC News' Matt Lauer to speak for the first time about his experience fighting the deadly disease.
  • (6) That’s his heart,” said Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for the non-profit medical mission group Samaritan’s Purse, which Brantly was working for in Liberia.
  • (7) Today is a miraculous day,” Brantly said at a press conference at Emory hospital on Thursday to announce his discharge from care.
  • (8) His wife and children returned to the US on 20 July, but Brantly stayed on to continue his work.
  • (9) Aid workers Dr Kent Brantly of Texas and Nancy Writebol were the first Ebola patients to be treated in the US.
  • (10) Robin Brant (@robindbrant) in spite of description of responsibilities under his name on .gov.uk i am told that mark francois is the new min for armed forces.
  • (11) She and the couple’s children were living in Liberia with Brantly but left before he developed symptoms.
  • (12) Brantly and Writebol were both treated in the hospital’s containment unit, which is specially equipped to care for patients with serious communicable diseases.
  • (13) Brantly said he was thankful Amber and his two children had already left the country by the time he fell ill. His wife and children had returned to Texas for a wedding.
  • (14) Brantly and Writebol were both treated in Emory hospital’s containment unit, which is specially equipped to care for patients with serious communicable diseases.
  • (15) Sacra had gone back to Monrovia after fellow missionaries Brantly and Writebol were diagnosed.
  • (16) These secretory variants contain frameshift mutations leading to products with normal amino acid sequences to the points of the mutations followed by short, aberrant C-terminal sequences and then premature termination (Nukiwa, T., Takahashi, H., Brantly, M., Courtney, M., and Crystal, R. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (17) Nancy Writebol and Kent Brantly are the first Americans to survive the deadly virus that has claimed more than 1,500 lives, according to the World Health Organization.
  • (18) Brantly said he woke up on 23 July feeling a "little off".
  • (19) Hell yeah, I’m very worried.” Three Americans contracted Ebola in west Africa and were flown to the United States for treatment and later released: Kent Brantly, Nancy Writebol and Rick Sacra.
  • (20) Writebol said the next few days were a blur, as she was transported to the US where she joined her colleague Brantly in a two-room isolation unit at Emory University hospital.

Grant


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
  • (v. t.) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
  • (v. t.) To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
  • (v. i.) To assent; to consent.
  • (v. t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
  • (v. t.) The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
  • (v. t.) The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
  • (v. t.) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
  • (2) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
  • (3) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
  • (4) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (5) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
  • (6) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
  • (7) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
  • (8) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (9) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
  • (11) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
  • (12) Some clinicians believe that increasing resistance by relatives to granting permission contributes to the falling rates, but this is a minority view.
  • (13) Australia has also previously granted refugee status to people who fled these countries.
  • (14) Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cut-off results from the charity's newly adopted criteria barring grants to organisations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities.
  • (15) The committee's report also said it was concerned about decisions to grant asylum to people "who later emerge to be involved with terrorist activity".
  • (16) The Coalition has also been warned about the costs of voluntary grants schemes.
  • (17) She is still waiting to hear whether she will be granted asylum.
  • (18) Students from low-income backgrounds will be eligible to apply for top-up grants up to a further £3,250, dependant on household income (ie the full £3,250 grant will be available up to a household income of £25,000 and a partial grant up to a household income of £60,000).
  • (19) The award to Sorrell is thought to be the second-largest granted to a FTSE 100 chief executive, behind only the £92m in shares and cash paid to Bart Becht while he was chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser in 2009.
  • (20) The following criteria were used to document program enhancement after the implementation of a microcomputer laboratory: faculty and student attitudes toward computer-assisted instruction (CAI); student anxiety scores toward state board examinations; increased visibility of the college (number of authored CAI modules, CAI grants, computer committee memberships, faculty attendance at computer courses); and relationship involving learning style, attitude, and student learning.

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