What's the difference between concur and grant?

Concur


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To run together; to meet.
  • (v. i.) To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
  • (v. i.) To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
  • (v. i.) To assent; to consent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
  • (2) An analysis of my own practice prescriptions showed that only 31% were repeat prescriptions, and this concurs with national figures.
  • (3) These do not concur with clinical experience but the figures for overt resistance, at 39% and 69%, correspond with expected non-responders to these regimes.
  • (4) Key informants concurred that general health settings and multiservice agencies were the most appropriate for reaching Mexican Americans, and that mental health services must include bilingual and bicultural staff members.
  • (5) The surgical residents and a consultant surgeon at the hospital where she was treated concurred with the diagnosis of the referring medical officer.
  • (6) In combination with an extensive neuropsychological test battery, the three methods produce data that concur with the evaluation made of EEG recordings.
  • (7) Overall, the findings of ultrasonography concurred with those of urography in 144 cases (93%).
  • (8) These two sets of data concur to show that tumor growth rate or proliferation rate correlates with the probability of metastatic dissemination.
  • (9) Thomas appeared to concur: "We are not concerned with whether this is a good case or a bad case but whether what is charged amounts to a crime."
  • (10) We report here our experience with 16 such patients (13 males, 3 females) and concur with the original observers on the benign nature of this syndrome.
  • (11) Measurements conducted in plexiglas, animal muscle, kidney and brain concur with tabulated values and show a scatter from 5-15 percent from the mean; measurements made in perfused muscle and brain compare well with the nonperfused values.
  • (12) Maximal velocity of LSC measured at saturating intracellular lithium concentration was lower in the patients than in the controls; this may concur with previous reports on possible links between impaired activity of LSC and bipolar affective illness.
  • (13) Simon Pryor, natural environment director at the National Trust , concurred: “This report shows that government should take the time to get biodiversity offsetting right.
  • (14) The present results relative to cytotoxicity of macrophages derived from the CFC concur with and extend our previous findings indicating that the cytotoxic property of macrophages originates in its ancestral stem cell or CFC and that factors responsible for increasing the CFC population do not selectively stimulate precursor cells responsible for production of the cytotoxic macrophage.
  • (15) Finally, a report on the use of behaviour therapy for an autistic child is outlined in order to explore the psychobiological correlations between social behaviour and language, which concur with extensive experiments on brain stimulation.
  • (16) Assessing the time of injury based on clinical records concurred with prenatal origin in 32% of the children thought to have prenatal origin of hemiplegia by CT.
  • (17) While most physicians concur, they disagree as to the volume of lung needing to be resected to achieve the best survival results.
  • (18) These results concur with previously reported levels of insulin secretion in the perfused rat pancreas.
  • (19) This finding concurs with a previous report and raises the possibility that HLA-DR2 may be associated with Paget's disease of bone, probably by predisposing the bone cells to viral infection.
  • (20) As for the rib-diameter Homo concurs more with the Pongidae than with the Cercopithecidae.

Grant


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
  • (v. t.) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
  • (v. t.) To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
  • (v. i.) To assent; to consent.
  • (v. t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
  • (v. t.) The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
  • (v. t.) The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
  • (v. t.) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
  • (2) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
  • (3) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
  • (4) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (5) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
  • (6) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
  • (7) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
  • (8) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (9) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
  • (11) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
  • (12) Some clinicians believe that increasing resistance by relatives to granting permission contributes to the falling rates, but this is a minority view.
  • (13) Australia has also previously granted refugee status to people who fled these countries.
  • (14) Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cut-off results from the charity's newly adopted criteria barring grants to organisations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities.
  • (15) The committee's report also said it was concerned about decisions to grant asylum to people "who later emerge to be involved with terrorist activity".
  • (16) The Coalition has also been warned about the costs of voluntary grants schemes.
  • (17) She is still waiting to hear whether she will be granted asylum.
  • (18) Students from low-income backgrounds will be eligible to apply for top-up grants up to a further £3,250, dependant on household income (ie the full £3,250 grant will be available up to a household income of £25,000 and a partial grant up to a household income of £60,000).
  • (19) The award to Sorrell is thought to be the second-largest granted to a FTSE 100 chief executive, behind only the £92m in shares and cash paid to Bart Becht while he was chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser in 2009.
  • (20) The following criteria were used to document program enhancement after the implementation of a microcomputer laboratory: faculty and student attitudes toward computer-assisted instruction (CAI); student anxiety scores toward state board examinations; increased visibility of the college (number of authored CAI modules, CAI grants, computer committee memberships, faculty attendance at computer courses); and relationship involving learning style, attitude, and student learning.