What's the difference between circumstance and conjuncture?

Circumstance


Definition:

  • (n.) That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
  • (n.) An event; a fact; a particular incident.
  • (n.) Circumlocution; detail.
  • (n.) Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
  • (v. t.) To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
  • (2) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
  • (3) This paper details the circumstances of some of the cases and cites precautions to be taken in the use of this therapeutic mode.
  • (4) Attention should be paid to the circumstances under which the chart is applied, as normal micturition behaviour seems to be highly dependent on social factors.
  • (5) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
  • (6) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
  • (7) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
  • (8) The circumstances surrounding 142 hospital admissions for acute asthma in 110 children during a one year period were examined.
  • (9) The length of the interpulse interval for LH release secretion decreased in unilateral decorticate animals, whereas the length of the cycle of FSH secretion increased in this circumstance.
  • (10) However, there are exceptional circumstances in which it is in a child’s best interests to be resettled in the UK.
  • (11) Differences in incidence of unplanned pregnancies among women was more a result of socioeconomic circumstance and the tendency to have a large family than attitude towards children.
  • (12) Ten patients (16.67 per cent) of the mortality group were in the ninety-ninth percentile of risk, whereas these factors or variables of similar weight produced an equivalent risk of only 0.34 per cent of the survivors; thus, operative death in these circumstances could be predicted with an estimated 98.0 per cent assurance.
  • (13) Under certain circumstances, the effects of chlordiazepoxide appear to be best predicted by knowledge of maintaining conditions.
  • (14) It is proposed that although the same retinoblastoma cells in different circumstances are responsive to HPD-PDT, no clinical response is demonstrable utilizing this model, due to the absence of tumor vascularity.
  • (15) • Police would be given discretion to remove face masks from people on the street "under any circumstances where there is reasonable suspicion that they are related to criminal activity".
  • (16) Naturally, in individual patients, special circumstances may exist which alter these decisions.
  • (17) In such circumstances faith in the project inevitably ebbs among the faithful.
  • (18) During this period, however, the cows were housed in a stable with markedly worse environmental circumstance than those in production stable.
  • (19) A Home Office spokeswoman said: "It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public.
  • (20) In the second phase of diagnosis are further neurophysiological investigations, which are only indicated in more special circumstances.

Conjuncture


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination.
  • (n.) A crisis produced by a combination of circumstances; complication or combination of events or circumstances; plight resulting from various conditions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This showed that regardless of the small territory of the country the districts are sufficiently differing between each other (due to the various degrees of integration) so that they could not be grouped together by similar values of intensity of poultry breeding and epizootic conjuncture with regard to Newcastle disease.
  • (2) In light of this historical finding, an alternative Marxian analysis of the current medical conjuncture is briefly presented.
  • (3) However, Eric Heyer of the Economic Conjuncture Observatory, was sceptical: "It has never been done before," he told French journalists.
  • (4) The conjuncture between migration as an issue, and nationalism and anti-Europeanism is creating a toxic backdrop for an already difficult economic climate in Europe, and this is leading to the growth of movements like Ukip, Le Pen and Geert Wilders and so on across Europe,” he added, referring to Britain’s Ukip party, Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s Front National, and Dutch politician Geert Wilders – all of whom are vehemently anti-immigrant.
  • (5) Now a unique conjuncture of economic and political developments has created an opportunity for Eurasia to emerge from its historical slumbers.
  • (6) Every historical conjuncture is different and analogies are usually superficial and misleading (Eden thought 1956 was 1936 and that Nasser was Hitler: look where that got him).
  • (7) When a radical activist movement has become so successful that it is called upon to do the work of the state, not just by vulnerable citizens but by the state itself, the political conjuncture is striking in its uniqueness.
  • (8) In this present conjuncture, though, he sees everywhere the hangover – indeed, the ongoing orgy of an essentially economic agenda.
  • (9) What we are witnessing is a potentially cataclysmic conjuncture of the continuing crisis of modern finance capitalism and the inherent defects of the eurozone as originally conceived.
  • (10) If you're analysing the present conjuncture, you can't start and end at the economy.
  • (11) The conjuncture and technological analysis was made of the current status and approaches to further development of the drugs--chondroprotectors on the basis of glycosaminoglycans.
  • (12) Finally, we point out that many characteristics of the Day Units, often called intrinsic or potential, issue from conjunctural factors such as the small size of the unit, the convenient geographical situation, the facility for utilization of new therapeutic technics etc.
  • (13) But in fact, this is merely a conjunctural form of a wider problem.
  • (14) The model is compartmental, with transfers compatible with all observed erythropoietic and hemolytic mechanisms as well as with most plausible conjunctured mechanisms.
  • (15) Ten years on, he says, "I find the political conjuncture toxic, vile and really upsetting.
  • (16) The gestation process is followed through the contest between specific groups and interest in key conjunctures of mexican history.
  • (17) In every "today" one of the critical factors on which the configuration at any given conjuncture is the creativity of the intellectual and managerial élite.
  • (18) It should be running at least £30bn a year higher than the Treasury currently spends, financed either by taxation or borrowing, depending on the particular economic conjuncture.
  • (19) Based on observations made in 112 cases of toxico-septic conditions that had developed in surgical and obstetrical conjunctures, the authors propose a unified codification of the major therapeutical means (etiologic therapy, general, non-specific and specific therapy, adapted for functions and organs).
  • (20) Through this study, the authors make a capital a critical analysis about the national conjuncture within the field of health, and settle a relationship with the problems experienced by the municipality of Londrina.

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