What's the difference between concordat and state?

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.

State


Definition:

  • (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
  • (n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
  • (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
  • (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
  • (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
  • (n.) Estate, possession.
  • (n.) A person of high rank.
  • (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
  • (n.) The principal persons in a government.
  • (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
  • (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
  • (n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
  • (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
  • (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
  • (a.) Stately.
  • (a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
  • (v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish.
  • (v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
  • (n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
  • (2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (3) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (4) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (5) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
  • (6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
  • (7) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (8) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
  • (9) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
  • (10) However, the firing of 5-HT neurons appears to relate to the state of vigilance of the animal.
  • (11) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
  • (12) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
  • (13) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (14) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (15) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (16) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (17) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (18) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
  • (19) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
  • (20) 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.

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