What's the difference between committal and offence?

Committal


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 53% of the males but only a very small percentage of the female committers were alcoholized.
  • (2) Perhaps the greatest advantage to the investigator arises from the fact that once the procedural routine has been established and the computer programs written, the entire procedure can be done by technical personnel and does not necessarily require a large time committment from the principal researcher.
  • (3) He added: We call on Russia to honour all its international committments to withdraw its force to bases and to refrain from any interference elsewhere in Ukraine.
  • (4) Abuse committers were more often males than females.
  • (5) The partnership builds on committments made by agriculture ministers from the G20 nations in 2011 to co-ordinate worldwide research efforts in wheat genetics, genomics, physiology, breeding and agronomy.
  • (6) Our previous studies showed that administration of a single dose of hydroxyurea strips the rat bone marrow of approximately 50% of replicating cells within 9--10 h. The results of the present study indicate that such a severe depletion of rat marrow cells results in early committment of spleen stem cells to various blood cell lines.
  • (7) The pattern of differentiation obtained from these BFU-E suggests that the capacity for granulopoiesis is usually lost before a committment to either megakaryopoiesis or erythropoiesis is made.
  • (8) Relationships with patients, patient compliance, personal committment, and belief in the efficacy of risk reduction were most frequently perceived to contribute to effectiveness.
  • (9) Mr Bikindi, 48, laughed during his committal hearing yesterday as details of his alleged crimes were read out, including accusations that he was a commander of the notorious "interahamwe" militia.
  • (10) The Act has special provisions on important matters relating to the care of persons, for instance on consent in respect of therapeutic treatment, on sterilisation, on committal and on the dissolution of households.
  • (11) There was a trend for it to be also associated with the mother having at least completed high school, being under 30 years of age, and with the couple's non-committal on (i.e., not outright rejection of) the possibility of adopting a hard to place child.
  • (12) Psychiatrists and committing judges failed to comply with the requirements of the committment law in one quarter of the cases.
  • (13) When the demographic characteristics of those who report suicide ideation in themselves or others were compared to those of suicide attempters and committers, some consistencies were found, suggesting that such questions may be useful in identifying those "at risk."
  • (14) 10.14am BST More reasons Answering questions from the press, the committe chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, is explaining that Syria is by no means the only reason for the OPCW's win.
  • (15) The personality categories differed significantly in terms of age, sex, marital status and committal status.
  • (16) Jürgen Klopp just the man to pump up the Anfield volume for Liverpool | Raphael Honigstein Read more Klopp was non-committal about his future when asked about Liverpool’s interest at a meeting of German coaches in Leverkusen on Monday.
  • (17) The other five cases received treatment with intravenous steroid as well as chemotherapy, and three cases also received committent emergent radiotherapy.
  • (18) The committal time after periodate stimulation is identical to that after stimulation with concanavalin A.
  • (19) Conservative Eurosceptics on Sunday renewed calls for moves towards a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union after David Cameron's declaration that he was willing to consider one was criticised as too distant and non-committal.
  • (20) This committment requires the development of somewhat different skills, knowledge and philosophy from those customarily propounded in dental teaching to date which has concentrated mostly on matters relevant to young and middle-aged persons.

Offence


Definition:

  • (n.) See Offense.
  • (n.) The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.
  • (n.) The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
  • (n.) A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
  • (2) Holmes, 25, is charged with more than 166 separate offences relating to the mass shooting of 20 July in Aurora, including first degree murder.
  • (3) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (4) In adults, with the exception of the 31--40 year age-group, there was no significant increase in these offences.
  • (5) On Sunday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice confirmed a serious further offence review would take place to see if lessons can be learned from the case.
  • (6) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
  • (7) "I am not trying to minimise the gravity of these offences, just simply make the observation that a sense of proportion needs to be maintained.
  • (8) In April, Ronnie was charged with a series of offences relating to an alleged £1m fraud at the retailer.
  • (9) She said it was time there was an offence of possessing firearms with intent to supply, arguing: "Those people who are supplying the firearms are as guilty as the people using them when it comes to the impact."
  • (10) However, Ofcom concluded that the word was capable of causing offence and the context did not justify its broadcast, finding Top Gear in breach of section 2.3 of the broadcasting code, which covers generally accepted standards.
  • (11) "If at any time we had been presented with a scheme that in any way amounted to immunity, exemption or amnesty we would have stopped that scheme - consistent with our opposition to the previous Government's Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill in 2005."
  • (12) Aamer, who has not been charged with any offence, was rendered to Guantánamo on February 14 2002 – the day his fourth child was born – and is understood to be held in solitary confinement.
  • (13) Third, if they are convicted of terrorism offences by an Australian court.
  • (14) An offence of going to such a place, because you have failed to satisfy someone, presumably a judge, on presumably the balance of probabilities, that you were there for what I’ll call a good purpose or at least not a bad purpose.
  • (15) Brain pathology, especially, shows some correlation with force used in offences and likelihood of recidivism, and for this reason alone it merits further study.
  • (16) If somebody who has participated in fighting in a foreign civil war returns to Australia, they can be arrested, they could be charged with an offence which carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment for 25 years.
  • (17) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
  • (18) The Police Foundation report said that the penalties for possession of cannabis - among the harshest in Europe - do more damage than the drug itself and called for a reclassification of drug offences.
  • (19) If officers are found to regularly fail to switch on their cameras when they should do it will be treated as a disciplinary offence, he added.
  • (20) Newspaper editors and TV bosses want to hear that their scouts have seen "must see" shows, when in fact having seen things everyone else has seen, when there are over 2,000 different shows daily, should be a sackable offence.