What's the difference between canvasser and region?

Canvasser


Definition:

  • (n.) One who canvasses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
  • (2) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
  • (3) The legal team has spent more than 10,000 hours combing through evidence, spoken to more than 14,500 individuals, viewed more than 1,200 hours of CCTV and media footage, canvassed 250 businesses, completed 9,300 investigative notes and taken more than 1,000 statements from police officers, experts and civilian witnesses.
  • (4) Duncan Smith has already agreed to £11bn welfare cuts over four years, but today refused to endorse plans to lower the age of entitlement to child benefit, one of the ideas being canvassed to cut the benefits bill.
  • (5) It was stressed that British involvement in the US bombing campaign designed to drive back Isis in northern Iraq may be weeks away, even though Conservative whips are already canvassing Tory MPs to see if they will support a bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq.
  • (6) Canvasses from the UNHCR and Unicef, the children's agency, are piled haphazardly on to structures made out of wood with wicker roofs, sacking and animal skin.
  • (7) A series of Tory figures have canvassed the possibility of a formal or informal pact, including leading backbencher Nicholas Boles, former prime minister John Major and leader of the Lords, Lord Strathclyde.
  • (8) They are saying she needs to realise that she needs to build allies.” The Tory source spoke out after Kenneth Clarke blew into the open a spat between the Conservative leadership and the home secretary’s team after two of May’s special advisers declined to take part in telephone canvassing in the recent Rochester and Strood byelection.
  • (9) Implementation of the alcoholism policy of the U.S. Civil Service Commission could have been improved by canvassing supervisors and unit directors for their views, diffusing information more widely and providing more support to alcoholism coordinators.
  • (10) In May, the Ministry of Justice revealed that officials would be canvassing the opinion of judges on the matter.
  • (11) Door-to-door immunizations and a community canvass for susceptibles were marshalled to quell a rubeola outbreak in Norfolk, one of 25 outbreaks reported in Virginia from January through August 1977.
  • (12) So, too, the party must learn to turn the energy of the "word of mouth" election into Miliband's ambition of creating "the largest community organisation in the country" with as much activity on street lighting, tackling antisocial behaviour and creating community cohesion as was devoted to canvassing voters.
  • (13) Yet the moment we proposed the benchmarks, canvassed support for an ultimatum, there was an immediate recourse to the language of the veto.
  • (14) Administrators in hospitals and schools of nursing were canvassed to discover the nature of nursing administration research already in progress.
  • (15) But McGarry’s canvass highlights two other developments that both SNP and Labour activists in Glasgow East are detecting.
  • (16) And nearly everyone canvassed agreed: nobody had a bad thing to say about Our 'Enry.
  • (17) My own tribal affinity, for all that it often fails to pass the test of basic rationality, is still with Labour, but I have canvassed for the Lib Dems (in an attempt to keep the Tories out – I know, I know) and voted Green.
  • (18) At Unite Cloud, he’s planning to change strategy, moving away from community events in which like-minded people tend to show up, in favor door-to-door canvassing.
  • (19) While yes, you are moving to a better place and there is a good argument for it, the women would tend to worry about the practical arrangements in having to change all your accounts and do the practical bits of moving.” And both camps were using highly sophisticated marketing and consumer profiling software, based on the Mosaic system heavily used by retailers and advertising agencies, to analyse voter canvassing returns and polling data, to identify their target vote and divide up the electorate into even more detailed segments based on factors such as income, jobs, family size, age, location and likely attitudes.
  • (20) Matthew Cain, an active party member since his teens who lives in Hackney, east London, and opposed Gordon Brown's elevation to party leader, said he had been "moved to tears" when his wife returned from canvassing last night to discover that the work and pensions secretary James Purnell had resigned.

Region


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
  • (n.) Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.
  • (n.) The upper air; the sky; the heavens.
  • (n.) The inhabitants of a district.
  • (n.) Place; rank; station.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
  • (3) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
  • (4) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
  • (5) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
  • (6) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
  • (7) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
  • (8) Twelve families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) were studied by linkage analysis using 10 polymorphic marker loci from the X-chromosome pericentromeric region.
  • (9) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
  • (10) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
  • (11) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
  • (12) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
  • (13) Three overlapping clones, spanning a total of 19 kb of the human SC gene, including 3 kb of the 5' flanking region, were characterized.
  • (14) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
  • (15) Therefore, neither of these two regions of the Tat protein appear to be discrete activation domains.
  • (16) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
  • (17) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
  • (18) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
  • (19) The regional distribution of beta-adrenoceptor subtypes was found to be similar to that seen in the rat brain.
  • (20) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.

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