What's the difference between demagogism and practice?

Demagogism


Definition:

  • (n.) The practices of a demagogue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re going to have our country back, and protect our second amendment.” After each demagogic slogan, the crowd screamed its approval, waving placards that called themselves the “silent majority for Trump”.
  • (2) He admired the demagogic black separatist Louis Farrakhan for his insistence that blacks and whites could never live together, and the dictatorships of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and Ayatollah Khomeini for their hatred of Jews.
  • (3) So the student question must be addressed on its own merits, not thrown into a demagogic hotpot marked "immigration" (aka "bloody foreigners").
  • (4) Fidel called President Obama's conference remarks ' deceitful, demagogic and ambiguous ,'" a cable said.
  • (5) The Ocean Hill-Brownsville affair had a lasting and damaging effect on the politics of the city, since in the past Jews and African Americans had formed a powerful liberal bloc; now many Jews drifted to the "neo-conservative" right, while many black New Yorkers were alienated from mainstream politics and driven to back more or less demagogic black politicians.
  • (6) The HDP and other Erdogan opponents contend that the current political climate has been stoked by the demagogic Turkish president, who, stung by the election setback in June , is eager to put the pro-Kurdish party back in its corner.
  • (7) Instead of being an expansive, outward-looking, globalist power, the United States has definitively turned inward, shutting its borders to Mexicans, Muslims and any number of other perceived enemies of Trump’s demagogic imagination.
  • (8) Liberals will describe this as a failure of consensus politics that has been driven by the lowest suspicion and prejudice available in American society, manipulated by big business, pandered to by lax or demagogic media companies, such as Fox News, and ridden by ambitious politicians who promise a fantasy land that they cannot deliver.
  • (9) In these backlash countries, LGBTI people are increasingly demonised by politicians to win popular support In these backlash countries, LGBTI people are increasingly demonised and scapegoated by demagogic politicians and fundamentalist clerics as a cheap way to win popular support.
  • (10) As to the demagogic meddling of the mayor of London – who thinks it would have been "wholly commonsensical" to arrest Mitchell – it's if nothing else a useful reminder that Boris Johnson is never knowingly outshitted.
  • (11) Instead of Roosevelt, the supposed lackey of Jewish finance, Johnson and a friend, Alan Blackburn, fixed on Huey P Long, and then, when that odious Lousiana governor was assassinated, a demagogic priest from Michigan, Father Coughlin, as allies.
  • (12) Conspiratorial, at times smacking of racism when he spoke of droves of Arab citizens of Israel being bussed to polling stations, and playing on the notion of the right as the victim of an alliance of the left and unnamed foreign powers, it was an appeal both demagogic and pitched to be alarmist.
  • (13) Proactively, it seeks to meet the crisis on every level on which it manifests itself by changing strategies, winning over popular layers with "demagogic promises", and pre-empting and isolating opponents.
  • (14) Talking about ‘defending Europe’ is not just demagogic, it’s unworthy.” The activist movement’s leaders, who call themselves ‘Identitarians’ , are in Catania awaiting the arrival of C-Star, which left Djibouti earlier this month.
  • (15) Demagogic in style and undemocratic in nature, there is no percolation of political ideas from the membership to the leadership.
  • (16) In true demagogic fashion, Trump bypassed the head and spoke directly to the gut, to the biles and bubbling acids of raw emotion.
  • (17) "It is a perfectly demagogic tactic … No one is taken in.
  • (18) German’s doughty finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, has warned of the scourge of “demagogic populism”, while the EU’s economic affairs commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, suggested Europe’s voters might be poised “to destroy it”.
  • (19) On Monday Seracini described the petition as sour grapes, an attempt "by the excluded to block extraordinary research", adding: "This demagogic attack risks Italy being derided around the world."
  • (20) Avoiding demagogic confrontation will be a priority for Berlin, the provider of the bulk of Greece’s €240bn bailout.

Practice


Definition:

  • (n.) Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
  • (n.) Customary or constant use; state of being used.
  • (n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
  • (n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
  • (n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
  • (n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
  • (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
  • (n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
  • (n.) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
  • (v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
  • (v. t.) To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
  • (v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
  • (v. t.) To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
  • (v. t.) To make use of; to employ.
  • (v. t.) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
  • (v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
  • (v. i.) To learn by practice; to form a habit.
  • (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
  • (v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (4) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
  • (7) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
  • (8) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (9) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
  • (10) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (11) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
  • (12) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
  • (13) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (14) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
  • (15) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
  • (16) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
  • (17) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
  • (18) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
  • (19) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (20) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.

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