What's the difference between concordat and parties?
Concordat
Definition:
(n.) A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything.
(n.) An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801.
Example Sentences:
(1) RMT and drivers’ union Aslef have signed a concordat aimed at stopping it spreading further in any form.
(2) To keep faith with the government's commitment to localism, the plan will fall short of instructing commissioners to stop using the units, as demanded by pressure groups, but most such groups have signed up to a concordat of support for the programme.
(3) The trend towards mergers is pronounced in London – Camden and Islington are to appoint a joint chief executive, and Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham have agreed a "concordat" with a view to sharing services – but it already goes far beyond the capital.
(4) The concordat is a voluntary agreement based on goodwill, and the mayor expects every company signed up to honour their pledge.” Galliard confirmed it is launching the development in Hong Kong this weekend and then in the UK next weekend.
(5) • Improving crisis care and waiting times – the crisis concordat works towards ensuring there is access to crisis services and that at all times these are responsive and as high in quality as other emergency services.
(6) Furthermore, the gulf between the latest recommendations – from more access for families to a concordat on care - and the reality facing families, commissioners and frontline staff is too wide.
(7) Fishing is devolved so, apart from dealing with Europe, Scotland also has a concordat with England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
(8) When I visited Oxleas mental health hospital recently to launch our Crisis Care Concordat, staff demonstrated how they're taking action to reduce the use of restraint and offer more supportive, compassionate crisis care.
(9) Driving what appears to be an emerging concordat between David Cameron and the SNP leader, Alex Salmond, is a belief that both sides stand to gain quite substantially from agreement over boundary changes in return for a "devolution max" that stops just short of full independence for Scotland .
(10) The concordat sets out four commitments which require signatories to be clear about their use of animals in research; to work more closely with the media and public; to be proactive in explaining the value and limitations of animal research; and to report annually on their progress.
(11) In both countries – despite a number of positive initiatives, including the Crisis Care Concordat in Britain , attempts to improve police training as well as the introduction in some places of “street triage”, where health professionals accompany police on calls – the injury and death of vulnerable citizens after being restrained has been an enduring and shameful occurrence.
(12) Meanwhile the government’s Winterbourne joint improvement programme fell apart , despite a concordat signed by 48 organisations; numerous meetings; endless talk; initial fake cheeriness and a hefty budget.
(13) The concordat approach is simply transparency on their terms."
(14) The day before last week’s election, leaked minutes from the meeting of a key mental health steering group, the Crisis Care Concordat , warned of an NHS “system failure” that was leading to large numbers of people in mental distress turning to A&E for help, due to inadequate community-based mental health services.
(15) During his two administrations, the government succeeded in reducing inflation by trimming the system of automatic wage indexation and negotiated a new concordat with the Vatican to replace the 1929 Lateran Pact.
(16) In 1989 he signed a similar concordat with his Orthodox brothers, and in 2000 he welcomed Pope John Paul II to Egypt.
(17) More than 70 UK organisations have signed the concordat on openness in animal research, which compels them to be clear on why, how and when animals are used in experiments, and to explain the benefits, harms and limitations of the research.
(18) An ensuing concordat will detail as yet undefined moves to make use of animals more transparent, though a major public awareness campaign looks likely.
(19) Wendy Higgins, at Human Society International, said: "This concordat's version of openness is a sanitised, rose-tinted version of animal research that gives the misleading impression of honesty but the very unpalatable truth about what animals can endure in labs will remain hidden in the shadows."
(20) "Those supporting animal research, the signatories to this concordat, are perfectly entitled to roll out a public relations strategy explaining their support for animal research.
Parties
Definition:
(pl. ) of Party
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(3) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(4) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
(5) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(7) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(8) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(9) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
(10) A “significant” number of resignations from the party had come in on Tuesday and Giles queried whether the CLP still had the 500 members it needs to remain registered.
(11) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
(12) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(13) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(14) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
(15) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(16) Sharif's family insist that he still runs the party from jail.
(17) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(18) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(19) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(20) The Nazi party’s office of racial purity claimed that the Jewish character was essentially drug-dependent.