What's the difference between circumstance and otherwise?

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.

Otherwise


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
  • (adv.) In other respects.
  • (adv.) In different circumstances; under other conditions; as, I am engaged, otherwise I would accept.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) The reference cohort consisted of 1725845 men otherwise gainfully employed.
  • (3) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
  • (4) Such factors can mask any interactions between biologic factors of the aging female reproductive system and other social factors that might otherwise detemine fertility during the later reproductive years.
  • (5) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • (6) Thus, D1 receptor-mediated grooming and perioral movements seem to be exceptions to the otherwise general finding that co-stimulation of the two receptor subtypes needed for the expression of D1 or D2 agonist effects in normosensitive rats and mice.
  • (7) The benefit of routine preoperative CT in patients with otherwise resectable colonic or rectal cancer remains unclear.
  • (8) An otherwise progressive rise in blood ammonia concentration was halted in the treatment group.
  • (9) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
  • (10) Otherwise sodium- and calcium-heparin are equal in effect and side effects provided they come from the same heparin source.
  • (11) One may speculate whether clinical conditions exist--apart from hereditary retinal dystrophies--in which the retina becomes more sensitive to light from strong artificial or natural sources, which are otherwise innoxious.
  • (12) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
  • (13) The reaction was treated with T5 D15 exonuclease to selectively destroy partially polymerized single-stranded phage DNA that may otherwise contribute to an increased background of wild-type transformants.
  • (14) Otherwise, a positive relationship was found between antihypertensive effects of Ket and BPV.
  • (15) It is noteworthy that intracardiac evaluation is necessary when there is longstanding and inveterate tachyarrhythmia in otherwise healthy children.
  • (16) A pre-operative diagnosis of otosclerosis was made but at tympanotomy, the stapes crura in each ear was found to be disconnected from the footplate, the ossicular chain being otherwise normal.
  • (17) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
  • (18) Where the mass proves soft, radical excision may be possible, but not otherwise.
  • (19) The finding of lower levels of T-lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of individuals with mammary cancer is of particular significance since all the patients in this study were otherwise in apparently good general health and undergoing no treatment.
  • (20) Results obtained with the probe were instrumental in modifying the operation in two of the four "positive" patients with recurrences, allowing the removal of tumour masses that would otherwise have been overlooked.