What's the difference between circumstance and identity?

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.

Identity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.
  • (n.) The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.
  • (n.) An identical equation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
  • (2) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
  • (3) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
  • (4) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (5) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (6) Amino acid sequence analysis showed that both peaks had identical N-terminal sequences through the first 28 residues.
  • (7) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (8) However, its identity requires further characterization.
  • (9) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
  • (10) In the process, HDL3 became larger and eluted in a position identical to that of HDL2.
  • (11) However, both were identical in size when synthesized in COS-1 cells in the presence of tunicamycin or when deglycosylated after their synthesis in Xenopus oocytes.
  • (12) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
  • (13) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
  • (14) In these bitches, a strain of E coli identical to the strain in the infected uterus was isolated.
  • (15) Identical results were obtained in adult and 30 d-old male rats.
  • (16) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
  • (17) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
  • (18) This cDNA was obtained because of an identical 10 bp match with the 3' end of one of the GnRH primers.
  • (19) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
  • (20) We previously established that the binding constant (Ka) of this receptor site for the chemically synthesized model AGE, 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H- imidazole-butyric acid (FFI-BA), on cells of the mouse macrophagelike cell line RAW 264.7 is identical to that for AGE proteins.