What's the difference between complied and replied?
Complied
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Comply
Example Sentences:
(1) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(2) For each of the goals, some were far from complying.
(3) To comply with these rules, interest is not paid on Islamic savings or current accounts, or charged on Islamic mortgages.
(4) This has shown that, in spite of higher dose rates in the corridor areas because of the use of an MDR system and the increase in interstitial techniques, the doses to ward nurses have been significantly reduced by encouraging staff to comply with the ALARA principle and the introduction of afterloading systems.
(5) The department of corrections stressed that the two reviews were the initial reports into the execution and were narrowly cast to look specifically at whether the requirements of the state’s death penalty protocol had been complied with.
(6) We found that those with more symptoms were more likely to comply with this therapy.
(7) The produced poliovirus does comply with requirements for inactivated poliovaccine.
(8) The proportion of companies complying with such a law may be overestimated if information on compliance is obtained only from employers.
(9) More than 60% of the residents' working hours in this program exceeded the arbitrary 80-hour limit, emphasizing the challenge of complying with the imposition of maximum work hours.
(10) 3.05pm BST The Russian foreign ministry has again spelled out Sergei Lavrov's objections to threatening Syria with force if it doesn't comply with the chemical weapons agreement.
(11) All 45 Republican senators signed a letter to Obama asking his administration to fully comply with the congressional investigation into the IRS.
(12) The net risk age reduction in the two groups represented 32 and 40 percent, respectively, of the achievable risk age reduction when patients comply with suggestions made during risk reduction counseling.
(13) Eurozone finance ministers agreed to release €1.1bn on Monday, after Athens was found to have complied with 15 reforms required for releasing the money.
(14) Refractive error and the ocular refractive components have heritabilities intermediate between zero and one, as complied from several studies, indicating familial resemblance, but also non-genetic variation.
(15) Instead of unifying to demand greater access they chose to comply with the government’s demands and refusal to permit deliveries of aid, the report said.
(16) We are committed to giving our customers clear and accurate pricing information that fully complies with the law."
(17) About 40% of the sample complied with the goal of consuming less than 33% of energy as fat or the goal of consuming 30g or more fibre per day.
(18) I made it very clear it is essential for the Qatari authorities to ensure the country complies to international standards on the treatment of workforce and to continue at full pace with the implementation of the promised measures.
(19) Forty-six patients with rheumatoid arthritis affecting their hands were questioned to establish whether or not they complied with the medical specialist's instructions about wearing splints.
(20) Brewer has complied with standards board orders to apologise but said he had no intention of resigning.
Replied
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Reply
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) Responses to a monthly survey of 450-500 surveyors (usually 250-300 reply).
(3) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(4) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(5) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
(6) A survey sent randomly to 30 retail pharmacies got 24 replies.
(7) To which Salim replies: “But you do.” When such intimacy between two men can be broadcast to an audience of millions, we are shown that the ways of portraying gay sex can be reframed.
(8) Of 519 patients on the waiting list, replies were received from 471 (91%).
(9) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
(10) "Most technologies have their bright and dark side," he replies, buoyantly.
(11) Asked about white predominance in the sport, South African rugby journalist Paul Dobson replied: "If you suggest that again I'll get annoyed and put the phone down.
(12) #WhitePrideWorldWide.” Anonymous replied in true vigilante style on Sunday, by taking control of the KKK Twitter account and replacing the logo with its own.
(13) Asked what form the arrangements could take, the peer replied: "Wherever we think that there's something happening that is undesirable and we're looking very carefully at how to draw up those protections."
(14) Asked if he thought the committee had been misled, Whittingdale replied: "I'm not sure yet."
(15) "I can't decide by myself," Mourinho replied when asked how the injuries would influence his team selection at Anfield.
(16) Last year he was asked how it was mathematically possible for all schools to exceed the national average, and replied: " By getting better all the time. "
(17) I watched some boxing last night," he replies in his faint, lisping voice.
(18) The other example is of a woman who had a child who died at the age of 10 and expressed no regrets, but when questioned about whether she would have continued a pregnancy knowingly aware the baby would die in 10 years, the woman replied that she could not imagine how anyone could be so strong as to bear a child knowing the brevity of its life.
(19) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
(20) Rule one surely is to reply to customers' phone calls and letters.