What's the difference between comply and resemble?

Comply


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.
  • (v. i.) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
  • (v. i.) To fulfill; to accomplish.
  • (v. i.) To infold; to embrace.

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.

Resemble


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.
  • (v. t.) To liken; to compare; to represent as like.
  • (v. t.) To counterfeit; to imitate.
  • (v. t.) To cause to imitate or be like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (2) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
  • (3) The above results indicate that the psychopharmacological profile of SAM resembles that of antidepressants in only some tests.
  • (4) The blastocyst antiluteolytic protein therefore closely resembles the interferon-alpha family of antiviral proteins.
  • (5) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
  • (6) Because the mitogenic action of IL 2 resembles that of some growth factors, the possible role of phosphatidylinositol breakdown in the activation of T cells by IL 2 was examined.
  • (7) The absolute level of ventilatory capacity resembles that of Nepalese children and differs from that of some other groups.
  • (8) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
  • (9) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
  • (10) The new trabecular bone closely resembled that typically seen at electrically active implants.
  • (11) A nonspecific reaction of the marrow against extramedullary lymphogranulomatosis closely resembling to the so-called tumor myeopathy has to be distinguished from the localized marrow changes due to the tumor itself.
  • (12) The effect upon ethanol responding was found not to resemble a pattern of extinction, but rather was best described as a general overall reduction in responding.
  • (13) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
  • (14) Based on similarities in elution time, the metabolites of [35S]PTU in urine closely resembled those in bile of rats.
  • (15) The observed staining indicated that the epithelium of the external auditory meatus has a pattern of keratin expression typical of epidermis in general and the epithelium of the middle ear resembles simple columnar epithelia.
  • (16) The structure of L-carnitine resembles the chemical structure of other substances that have been described as being able to protect living cells against osmotic stress.
  • (17) The antimicrobial activity of mederrhodin A resembled that of medermycin.
  • (18) A temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified which at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C is unable to secrete a number of cell wall-associated proteins and thus resembles previously reported sec mutants.
  • (19) The dose response initially resembled that described by Scholer (1959) in which one million spores killed the majority of mice.
  • (20) Electron microscopy revealed a well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum, an enlarged Golgi apparatus and many highly electron-dense secretory granules resembling those of Clara cells.