What's the difference between cited and edict?

Cited


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cite

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
  • (2) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
  • (3) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (4) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (5) "The value the public place on the BBC is actually rising," said Lyons, citing research carried out by the BBC Trust earlier this year.
  • (6) This paper details the circumstances of some of the cases and cites precautions to be taken in the use of this therapeutic mode.
  • (7) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
  • (8) The hyperthermia in rabbits caused by the serotonergic stimulants cited above is also antagonized by pretreatment with MS.
  • (9) The overall clinical efficacy rate of AZT in the 110 cases with the complicated UTI was 64%, estimated by the criteria cited above.
  • (10) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
  • (11) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
  • (12) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (13) Cited studies were critically reviewed with emphasis on study size, patient sample, methods, diagnostic criteria, and reproducibility of results.
  • (14) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
  • (15) Zoopla, the property website, has warned that Brexit would reverse the gains in house prices made over the past five years, citing Treasury research.
  • (16) Work with heterosexual and homosexual men and women is cited.
  • (17) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
  • (18) Allen Mathies, president and chief executive officer at Huntington Memorial Hospital, cited a paradoxical side effect stemming from the success of his hospital's geriatric outreach programs.
  • (19) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
  • (20) The above-cited results, in conjunction with previous results obtained with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus subtilis, involve diverse biochemical pathways and suggest that nutritional manipulation to alter the pattern of carbon flow in microorganisms is a generally useful means to accomplish increased sensitivity to growth inhibition by metabolite analogs.

Edict


Definition:

  • (n.) A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Egypt's Dar el-Ifta, a wing of the justice ministry that issues non-binding religious edicts, said al-Raqisa would destroy the moral structure of the country.
  • (2) There's also a new edict from the central forestry ministry whereby communities will be able to bulldoze up to a fifth of the forest in their locality for agriculture or plantation use.
  • (3) In an interview on state TV aired late on Thursday, Morsi defended his edicts, saying they were a necessary "delicate surgery" to get Egypt through a transitional period and end instability he blamed on the lack of a constitution.
  • (4) In the past month, Dar el-Ifta, the wing of the justice ministry that issues religious edicts, may have condemned the extremism of Isis – but it has also condemned both belly-dancing and online communication between men and women.
  • (5) Only last month, a new edict allowed sub-divisional magistrates to use flashing blue beacons, though it insisted that only divisional and sub-divisional commissioners would be allowed to use red beacons.
  • (6) To Eller's most important achievements in Berlin belong the Medicinal Edict of 1725 as well as the management of the citizens' hospital opened in 1727.
  • (7) Democrats support the regulations and claim that Republicans are rolling back the edicts in order to appease fossil fuel interests.
  • (8) If that seems modest, he says he has complex planning issues to deal with, as well as edicts from central government – such as a push to sell off publicly owned land.
  • (9) US bans larger electronic devices on some flights from Middle East Read more Hours after the distribution of a “confidential” edict from the US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), senior Trump administration officials told a hastily convened press briefing on Monday night the ban had been brought in after “evaluated intelligence” emerged that terrorists favored “smuggling explosive devices in various consumer items”.
  • (10) The no-entry edict prompted residents to rush back into the zone to grab as many belongings as they could before the order went into effect.
  • (11) An edict requiring gas sterilization rather than solution soaking of these instruments is in force in all federal hospitals.
  • (12) The edicts appeared in a statement that also encouraged insurgents to join peace talks, fuelling fears that any successful negotiations would come at a high cost to women.
  • (13) Brussels has been careful to issue no centralising edicts that might confirm the leavers’ caricature of the meddling EU.
  • (14) In some ways, neither the political orientation of Bani Walid nor edicts from central government matter.
  • (15) Seventeen defendants have been charged under the 2013 edict; if convicted, they could face up to five years in prison and a fine of 50,000 Egyptian pounds, (£4,388).
  • (16) His company makes small parts, meaning material costs are higher than labor, he said: “So there very often is a case that buying the material in the US is actually less expensive.” Clinton v Trump on the economy: speeches underscore competing visions Read more Still, the company has edicts from some of its customers to use locally sourced suppliers.
  • (17) He suggests that this is the dynamic that drives unthinking partisan allegiance ("What's most distinctive about the current presidential election and our political culture [is] … how unconditionally so many partisans back their side's every edict, plaint and stratagem"), as well as numerous key political frauds, from Saddam's WMDs to Obama's fake birth certificate to Romney's failure to pay taxes for 10 years.
  • (18) In any case, he knows he’s toast if he starts threading the Lib Dem manifesto through with Old Testament edicts.
  • (19) A Department for Transport edict still bans travel there from UK airports, Tipton said.
  • (20) It's not broke, in any sense of the word – unless you're one of the countless unfortunates to have suffered at the hands of its edicts or its evildoers, of course – so what in his employer's name is Francis up to with this suggestion that something needs to be fixed?

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