What's the difference between captaincy and jurisdiction?

Captaincy


Definition:

  • (n.) The rank, post, or commission of a captain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although Hodgson accepts the FA's decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy – the issue which fractured Capello's relationship with his former employers – he intends to sit down with the Chelsea defender and Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand to gauge whether they can be in the same squad.
  • (2) The England manager, Fabio Capello, has stressed that Terry will be considered innocent unless proven guilty and will therefore retain the captaincy of the national side, but has not spoken on the subject since formal charges against Terry were announced.
  • (3) It is understood that the defender was informed of the decision, the second time that he has lost the captaincy for off-the-pitch reasons, shortly before 10am this morning.
  • (4) John Terry was today stripped of the England captaincy by Fabio Capello during a 12-minute meeting at Wembley Stadium this afternoon.
  • (5) A belated convert to the English captaincy cult, Capello decided to put the matter to bed after watching the Denmark game and forming the conclusion that England needed strong leadership during games.
  • (6) Steven Gerrard, who was Ferdinand's deputy during the United player's captaincy and has been third-choice for the post since, now appears to be next in line for the role.
  • (7) It is the second time that he has lost the captaincy for off-the-pitch reasons.
  • (8) Stripped of the captaincy in February over revelations in his private life - there will be some within in the squad who still feel overriding sense of loyalty to the absent Wayne Bridge - there must be a part of him that still resents the embarrassment his demotion generated.
  • (9) With the captaincy, especially in England, we maybe go a bit overboard on it.
  • (10) "After much thought I have made the decision that it will be best for me to take the captaincy away from John Terry ," said Capello, who replaced him immediately with the vice-captain, Rio Ferdinand, and moved the third choice, Steven Gerrard, up to the deputy's role.
  • (11) Last season’s dash for the tape ended with Brian O’Driscoll adding one more piece of silver to a considerable collection, and the man with whom he shared the Irish captaincy for much of a decade left Murrayfield for the last time on a Six Nations night with a championship trophy, a winner’s medal around his neck and the praises of his coach ringing in his ears.
  • (12) But it was in an astonishing response to the BBC’s Jonathan Agnew about persistent criticism of his captaincy, specifically from Shane Warne , that Cook most highlighted the alarming gulf between his foot-in-mouth tendencies and the smooth statesmanship of his predecessor Andrew Strauss.
  • (13) "Captaincy is like coaching, the more you do the more you learn.
  • (14) That dish will be seasoned with salty personal attacks on Miliband, who, despite incremental improvements in presentation, is still seen in Number 10 as a laughable candidate for national captaincy.
  • (15) • Terry stripped of captaincy as Capello gets tough • Gallery: John Terry's career in pictures • David Lacey: Captaincy role is over-rated • Defender's highs and lows with Chelsea and England "To bounce back after such a huge ­disappointment maybe persuaded him," he said, when standing next to Capello.
  • (16) I know him well enough and think he is a great player, a good man and in Steven's absence and with Daniel Agger out of the team I could not think of anyone better [for the captaincy]."
  • (17) I had a long conversation with him and he’s prepared to accept the pressures the England captaincy brings.” Asked if he expected the move to spur Rooney on to even greater heights, Hodgson said.
  • (18) In the cool light of the next few days I expect he will realise that.” Neill retained the captaincy for Ange Postecoglou’s first game in charge of the Socceroos, and the defender’s behaviour could harm his chances of leading the side at next year’s World Cup.
  • (19) He then, though, points out that Jayawardene binned the captaincy to save his batting, which makes more sense.
  • (20) Steven Gerrard’s departure for LA Galaxy has created a void in midfield – and potentially for the captaincy, with Milner a possible challenger to the current vice-captain Jordan Henderson for the role – and Liverpool are also closing in on the Burnley striker Ings.

Jurisdiction


Definition:

  • (a.) The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission.
  • (a.) The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate; the right of making or enforcing laws; the power or right of exercising authority.
  • (a.) Sphere of authority; the limits within which any particular power may be exercised, or within which a government or a court has authority.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (2) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
  • (3) But she had particular backing from those on the Labour benches who want to stop May’s hardline Brexit plan to leave the single market, customs union and jurisdiction of the European court of justice.
  • (4) This proportion varied between the jurisdictions: from 43 per cent in Tepatitlan to 70 per cent in Ameca.
  • (5) In September the court was asked to issue one for the arrest of Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, under the 1988 Criminal Justice Act, which gives courts in England and Wales universal jurisdiction in war crimes cases.
  • (6) An attempt by the UK to challenge the court's jurisdiction was defeated.
  • (7) The Gambian government has not officially confirmed reports but a statement issued late on Friday said: "All persons on death row have been tried by the Gambian courts of competent jurisdiction and thereof convicted and sentenced to death in accordance with the law.
  • (8) Jurisdiction in the Supreme Court though, has shown the way of going on.
  • (9) We note the ongoing work under the UN General Assembly of an Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction.
  • (10) The repurposing of the devices of unwitting users in foreign jurisdictions for covert attacks in the interests of one country’s national priorities is a dangerous precedent – contrary to international norms, and in violation of widespread domestic laws prohibiting the unauthorised use of computing and networked systems,” they conclude.
  • (11) Along with the organization of control and supervision while conducting sanitary and hygienic and anti-epidemic measures at the territories within the jurisdiction of SES, the role and participation of sanitary and epidemiological institutions in the control of health status in view of harmful effect of environmental factors and prevention of diseases among population are demonstrated.
  • (12) Because he was outside British jurisdiction at night, this allowed him to extend the number of days he could stay in the UK without paying tax.
  • (13) In jurisdictions that sometimes award compensation, the reasons for acceptance or rejection of a claim vary from case to case and are not necessarily based on our present knowledge of the disease.
  • (14) In Iceland, the first jurisdiction to pass legislation to put tobacco out of sight in 2001, the number of young smokers fell significantly, and laws have now been successfully implemented in nearly all Canadian provinces and Ireland too.
  • (15) All deaths coming under its jurisdiction will be reported in a timely manner and, when required, authorization for autopsy will be granted from the AFME.
  • (16) The US took jurisdiction after the second world war and turned them over to Japan in 1972.
  • (17) In question time on Tuesday, Pyne said officials were still finalising the details of the in-principle agreements with the three jurisdictions to benefit from the restoration of the $1.2bn, but the government was treating the states as “adult” administrators.
  • (18) In its defence, Luxembourg quickly pointed the finger at other jurisdictions — Belgium and Ireland among them — claiming they too offered attractive but confidential tax rulings in an effort to lure inward investment.
  • (19) This boundary was chosen because MSAFP values that predict a greater risk than this point for younger women or a lower risk for older women are likely in many jurisdictions to alter a decision about amniocentesis that would be reached without knowledge of MSAFP.
  • (20) Other drugs, which are legal in some jurisdictions, were classified as soft.

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