What's the difference between circumstance and context?

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.

Context


Definition:

  • (a.) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
  • (n.) The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
  • (v. t.) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (3) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (4) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (5) In this experiment animals were trained to lever press in two distinctive contexts.
  • (6) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
  • (7) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
  • (8) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (9) Therefore, it is now important to look at TGF-alpha in its normal physiological context.
  • (10) Cyclosporine has a remarkable hepatotropic effect that may be helpful in the context of liver transplantation.
  • (11) A very important point to consider in this context is the immunological situation in the female genital tract which is a target organ for sex hormones.
  • (12) So when President Obama went before his country on Wednesday, this is the context in which what he had to say about his plans should be considered.
  • (13) The toxicological findings of this case are compared to the results of two chloroquine suicide cases and discussed in the context of the referring literature.
  • (14) A patient with long lasting non-parathyroid hormone mediated hypercalcaemia occurring within the context of hepatitis B virus chronic hepatitis is reported.
  • (15) A theory which includes the individual's activity as an essential mediator between the individual and the context is outlined.
  • (16) The issue has arisen in both a due process context and an equal protection context.
  • (17) Minor and major congenital anomalies were studied in 395 neonatal risk children and 107 normal school children at the age of nine in the context of follow-up of the risk children.
  • (18) Our results indicate that the Ah receptor-dependent, dioxin-responsive enhancer can activate transcription when in a regulatory context and in a chromosomal location different from those of the cytochrome P450iA1 gene.
  • (19) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.
  • (20) England’s next assignments, to put it into context, come against San Marino and Estonia in October.