What's the difference between bringing and wringing?
Bringing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bring
Example Sentences:
(1) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(2) It's the demented flipside of David Guetta bringing Euro house into the mainstream.
(3) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
(4) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(5) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(6) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(7) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(8) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(9) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(10) When it was grown, it would bring both ecstasy and catastrophe to women.
(11) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
(12) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
(13) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(14) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(15) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(16) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(17) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(18) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(19) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(20) The chancellor confirmed he would bring in a welfare cap of £119.5bn, with the state pension and unemployment benefits exempted from this.
Wringing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wring
() a. & n. from Wring, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) "That would be good news for the tobacco industry in its endless search to wring profits out of new addicts, but terrible news for children and young people across Europe ."
(2) That’s not only because they hold so many title deeds, but also because modern governments are given to wringing their hands and declaring their own impotence in the face of multinationals.
(3) Poor countries have won historic recognition of the plight they face from the ravages of climate change, wringing a pledge from rich nations that they will receive funds to repair the "loss and damage" incurred.
(4) Outside, all the talk was of the corruption allegations that had led to a fresh wave of hand-wringing over the greed and grotesque sums in the game.
(5) CiU, which has governed Catalonia for 25 of the 33 years since democracy was restored, has never aspired to independence, preferring to wring more autonomy out of minority governments in Madrid.
(6) He hailed the commitment from industrialised countries to provide $100bn (£61bn) a year in climate funding without wringing significant concessions out of emerging powers as a significant victory, and signalled that the close links with China were set to continue.
(7) Long before anyone ever wrote an article about the “gig economy”, corporations had discovered the higher profits they could wring out of an on-demand workforce made up of independent contractors.
(8) Ministers rightly wring their hands over the 2,200 jobs being lost at the 98-year-old Redcar steelworks hit by low-cost Chinese competition .
(9) Rather than wringing our hands about the white working class and immigration, we need to deal with the underlying issues that make white and black people hostile to immigration; things like housing and job security.
(10) We had to wring out our clothes to drink our sweat from them.
(11) But that is informed consent – which users can’t see, but I’m putting in quotes.” Asked by the host, Alex Goldman, if OKCupid had ever considered bringing in an ethicist to vet the experiments, Rudder said: “To wring his hands all day for a $100,000 a year?”.
(12) He claimed that he would only support membership of the European Union if he could wring the right concessions from other continental leaders.
(13) Article after article tracks the coalfield’s economic decline , but no one living in post-industrial Wales needs such well-meaning hand-wringing to awaken them to their situation.
(14) Though the reforms received widespread bipartisan support at the time they passed Congress and are supported by the White House, a backlash has grown in recent weeks, with figures such as CIA director John Brennan criticising “hand-wringing” over surveillance.
(15) I feel self-conscious talking about it,” Biden said, looking down solemnly and occasionally wringing his hands.
(16) We believe the responsible approach to business and consumption is to be transparent about our own impact, and keep working to wring out waste in our own activities.” However, financial disclosure records for the US Senate indicate that Oglivy Government Relations – a standalone lobbying firm in the same Washington DC office building as Oglivy PR – represents some of the most ferocious opponents of Barack Obama’s efforts to act on climate change, including the American Petroleum Institute, the biggest oil industry lobby.
(17) The edema is measured volumetrically subsequent to squashing the rat paw under standardized conditions in a wringing-machine with two wooden rollers.
(18) A call for the people of Rome to clean up their city and show some civic pride has gone viral following months of hand-wringing about the sorry state of Italy’s capital.
(19) It is, ironically, the same people on the whole who hand-wring about our pensions deficit and the loss of living standards, who also disapprove of the state subsidising people raising many children and rail against migrants.
(20) But three years on, for all the hand-wringing, the economic upheaval and the promises of politicians, there is a whiff of business as usual in the air.