What's the difference between catering and indulgence?

Catering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cater

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (2) Kurdish officials on Thursday demanded more help in catering for refugees.
  • (3) Many shops are now catering to these high spenders.
  • (4) Twenty years ago, before the reign of Charlie Mayfield, the present CEO, the company's cleaners and caterers were all outsourced to save money.
  • (5) The truth was that he had failed his maths O-level at his local school and completed a City and Guilds in catering at Glasgow College of Food Technology.
  • (6) It is suggested that a transcultural approach be adopted in managing cases in which the parents feel particularly anxious and uncomfortable about prematurely erupted teeth in order to cater for the social well-being of the child and family.
  • (7) This family-run stables genuinely caters for all abilities and you get to ride straight out on to Dartmoor.
  • (8) Quantitative observations were made of 200 groups in bars catering for young adults.
  • (9) The Royal School for Deaf Children, Margate, caters for children with a wide range of needs; screening involving a single-assessment structure for all pupils is felt to be inappropriate.
  • (10) "I thought the Korean burger was quite good," the hipster goes on, without much kimchi-fired enthusiasm, "but I think a lot of people don't make their food with enough shbang … They kind of cater to the middle of the road."
  • (11) And the letters themselves are detailed to a fault, telling ministers far more than they need to know about the importance of the Patagonian toothfish, the single farm payment and the recent report of the Local Authority Caterers Association on school meals.
  • (12) Turner Contemporary, which opened in 2011, has helped transform Margate into an emerging destination for the arts , while new hotels, such as the Albion House in nearby Ramsgate , cater for visitors looking for boutique-style accommodation.
  • (13) Some can't afford their own uniforms or pencil tins and we have to teach them the most basic things, like how to queue up for dinner,” said Cater-Whitham.
  • (14) British commuters to mainland Europe and short-term contractors who work on the continent say the British proposal does not cater for them.
  • (15) PHE will continue to support local authorities to provide effective weight management services, to influence the regulation of fast food outlets and provide healthier catering in hospitals and schools, which will all help people to lose weight.
  • (16) A study was undertaken to determine the incidence of systemic postoperative complications and the operative mortality of patients undergoing elective aortic surgery in a hospital that caters to a homogeneous population group.
  • (17) They weren't aware that MSG was what they'd liked in Japan - but the US Army catering staff noticed that their men enjoyed the leftover ration packs of the demobilised Japanese Army much more than they did their own, and began to ask why.
  • (18) Our agreement with the LLDC will see West Ham make a substantial capital contribution towards the conversion works of a stadium on top of a multimillion-pound annual usage fee, a share of food and catering sales, plus provide extra value to the naming rights agreement.
  • (19) Viravaidya maintains that the tourist sex industry (catering to Americans, Europeans and Japanese) is only a contributory factor of the epidemic.
  • (20) During Mr Thompson's big speech in Banff three years ago, after which he was marked out by many as a DG in waiting, he laid out a vision of a multichannel age in which the BBC would move from mixed genre, high audience channels to a range of digital services catering for niche audiences.

Indulgence


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.
  • (n.) An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification.
  • (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory.
  • (v. t.) To grant an indulgence to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
  • (2) The lender will also have to take a 5% hit, to ensure it does not indulge in offering risky loans.
  • (3) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
  • (4) I believe that both Nan and I had such a strong marriage that it was possible.” And she was prepared to indulge his experiments?
  • (5) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
  • (6) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
  • (7) When election strategists brought in to pour over Ghani’s speeches told him to swear off coffee on rally days to strengthen his voice, he gave up one of his very few indulgences immediately.
  • (8) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
  • (9) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
  • (10) This was the logic that initially led the coalition to reject Heathrow expansion, so why is it now, indulged if not quite supported by the opposition, drifting inexorably towards a new runway in the south-east?
  • (11) This is a character deliriously doomed to repetitive self-indulgence.
  • (12) They cut taxes on corporate Britain while indulging in entirely destructive gimmicks such as scrapping the 10p tax rate.
  • (13) However, it seems that other types of viruses (e.g., tobamoviruses, tombusviruses) do not indulge in regular gene exchange and that common gene pools, distinct from each other, do not occur.
  • (14) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
  • (15) There were also significantly elevated risks associated with occasional indulgence in these four habits.
  • (16) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
  • (17) It was another popular choice at a closing night ceremony indulgently received by the Cannes crowd.
  • (18) This is not about benevolent indulgence but achievement of genuine equality in support and contribution.
  • (19) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
  • (20) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.