What's the difference between comply and temporize?

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.

Temporize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
  • (v. t.) To delay; to procrastinate.
  • (v. t.) To comply; to agree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (2) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
  • (3) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
  • (4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (5) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (6) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
  • (7) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
  • (8) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
  • (9) In this series there were 45 patients (40%) with independent focal interictal EEG epileptic abnormalities over frontobasal cortex (with or without independent spiking over interomedial temporal region).
  • (10) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
  • (11) It is found that, whereas the spatial resolution achievable with such a system is only dependent upon its temporal resolution, the scattering characteristics of the tissue being imaged will strongly affect the ultimate imaging performance of such a system.
  • (12) Out of 50 epileptics in 31 cases temporal-lobe epilepsy was present, in 15 the seizures and EEG changes were generalized, in 4 cases focal non-temporal-lobe epilepsy was recognized.
  • (13) Many of observed functional changes in freshly reimplanted lungs are temporally related to changes in extravascular water.
  • (14) Treatment modalities included: partial temporal bone resection, subtotal temporal bone resection, total temporal bone resection, radical mastoidectomy followed by radiation therapy, radiation therapy alone, and chemotherapy.
  • (15) The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a temporal association between the introduction of a Fetal Diagnostic and Treatment Center and changes in fetal mortality.
  • (16) We have investigated the temporal pattern of appearance, cell lineage, and cytodifferentiation of selected sensory organs (sensilla) of adult Drosophila.
  • (17) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
  • (18) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
  • (19) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
  • (20) After the fourth dose of L-asparaginase, he presented with severe headache and a CT scan showed a right temporal infarct.