What's the difference between comportment and demeanor?

Comportment


Definition:

  • (n.) Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) Teacher-Student Relations emerged as the most important aspect of teacher comportment, followed by knowledge associated with Human Behavior, Substances, User Recognition and Referral, Prevention Curricula, and Legal Issues.
  • (3) The indication herewith is more founded on a possible sympathetic origin of the troubles as on the comportment psycho-affective of the patient.
  • (4) Boomers who got their start and their breaks in a forgiving welfare democracy are perennially surprised when young people without the financial capacity for independence become restive in junior jobs, readily leave them for better-paid opportunities, or comport themselves differently in the workplace.
  • (5) In response to such pressures a change of comportment takes place which puzzles the people closest to the stricken.
  • (6) This parameter, despite its limited significance can serve as a working index characterising the thermoregulatory system in different groups of experimental animals of the same species providing that the actual conditions of the experiment are comporting.
  • (7) In the wake of these successes, some on the right are offering the left advice about how to comport themselves at these events – but do we want it?
  • (8) They added that Lockett’s fate “gruesomely underscores the importance of transparency, judicial oversight, and the crucial importance of keeping some doors open to death-sentenced inmates to assert their right to be executed in a manner that comports with the eighth amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment”.
  • (9) Two hypotheses can account for these variations: a smaller or greater adaptation of the S. mansoni stock to the rat; a change in the comportment of rats which would thus be more or exposed to reinfestations.
  • (10) The highest dosis of endotoxine have comported a blok in the esterification of cholesterol.
  • (11) The goal of this study was the observations of the comportment of 5 groups of asthmatic children, followed either with weekly ambulatory control of functional respiratory capacity or with daily control of PEF at home by Asses Peak Flow.
  • (12) The avoiding phenomena observed are analyzed as elementary motor perturbations rather than a disturbance of motor comportment.
  • (13) N. Kosciusko-Morizet (@nk_m) Comportement abject et intolérable des supporters de #Chelsea dans le métro : #racisme et ségrégation.
  • (14) In most such cases, exculpation is based primarily on the specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction in which the act was committed (the lex loci delicti commissi).
  • (15) Clooney has a semi-cameo as the candidate himself, Governor Mike Morris, a role in which he comports himself with presidential smoothness, broken only by a dark confrontation at the end.
  • (16) Quandary- and rights-based procedural ethics address ethical problems and breakdown and overlook everyday ethical comportment.
  • (17) The 5 alpha-reductase activity was localised on the stromal comportment of the rat ovary.
  • (18) Comportment and most activities of daily living were preserved even when speech was unintelligible.
  • (19) The emotional state of the gravida shortly before childbirth has a predictive value for her comportment during parturition.
  • (20) The Note subsequently rejects the substituted judgment standard as a legal fiction, and endorses the best interest test which necessarily comports with the evidence, and properly accounts for the disabled person's incompetency.

Demeanor


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Management; treatment; conduct.
  • (v. t.) Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her strategy was fairly simple: show Trump as not fit for the presidency, defend herself without seeming defensive or evasive and, most important, maintain the demeanor of an all-but-president.
  • (2) I don’t know if it has to do with his stoic demeanor as he sat behind President Obama during a State of the Union, or those baby-blue eyes all over the news on Tuesday, as he announced that he wasn’t running for president this year, citing his faith in the political process ( swoon ).
  • (3) Sodium bicarbonate solution administered intravenously effectively raised blood pH and improved demeanor, ambulation and appetite.
  • (4) Rebecca Martinez (@BeckyGMartinez) Romney's demeanor feels stronger...and given that Americans don't listen to actual words, this is a problem for Obama #debates October 4, 2012 Updated at 4.18am BST 3.13am BST Oh great Mitt Romney has another list!
  • (5) Carson, whose mild demeanor and provocative commentary have propelled him ahead of Trump in the early-voting state of Iowa , cited “the many stories of people who have led very useful lives who were the result of rape or incest”.
  • (6) I’m not running against him or against anyone else.” How long Rubio can maintain the sunny demeanor that has personified his candidacy thus far is unclear.
  • (7) Boehner was referring to a Wall Street Journal report quoting an unnamed "senior administration official" as saying: “We are winning…It doesn’t really matter to us” how long the shutdown lasts “because what matters is the end result.” Boehner says he's known for his affable demeanor and fair-mindedness.
  • (8) But those very same qualities could also overshadow the former first lady , whom some regard as lacking a personable and relatable demeanor.
  • (9) And the conspiracy theorists also have pictures of a third person – someone whose general demeanor and outfit make the theorists believe he is an officer of some sort of military or militarised organisation – with just that kind of black backpack with a white square on its handle that can also be seen in the second set of photographs.
  • (10) As he speaks, he guides hospital beds through doors with the relaxed demeanor that comes after 30 years removing bullets, suturing knife wounds and watching people live or die on his watch.
  • (11) Short, energetic and with a sunny demeanor, he is fond of button-up shirts in muted colours and khakis.
  • (12) For the first time, the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev dropped his blank, impassive demeanor on Monday and cried as his sobbing aunt briefly took the stand in his federal death penalty trial, before she was asked to step down and compose herself.
  • (13) The Australian’s on court demeanor has attracted praise and opprobrium in equal measure, split between those who think the game needs more characters and those who find his behaviour unbecoming.
  • (14) His Facebook profile showed him pictured with others at Disney World, with the caption: “True friends who become family.” High school friend Eddi Anderson told the Tampa Bay Times that Vielma was known for his pleasant attitude and warm demeanor.
  • (15) Given Romney's affable demeanor in the first debate, the contrast could be considerable.
  • (16) New Jersey’s Christie has the lowest favourability rating of any candidate except Trump - a product of his in-your-face demeanor – and faces possible indictment over his involvement inthe so-called Bridgegate scandal.
  • (17) Even clad in casual clothing and past retirement age, she retained a businesslike demeanor.
  • (18) Such dramatics can be observed not only in the demeanor of neurotics, but also in their symptoms.
  • (19) Zuley’s demeanor all changed, Boyd says, after he agreed to let the detective search his apartment: Zuley returned to the interrogation room, Boyd remembered, using racial epithets.
  • (20) In pursuing diagnostic procedures, the behavioral adjustment and responsiveness of the child during the examination proceedings may be optimally managed through an appropriate atmosphere and demeanor.