What's the difference between diligent and enterprising?

Diligent


Definition:

  • (a.) Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.
  • (a.) Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hunt’s comments were, in many senses, a restatement of traditional, economically liberal ideas on relationships between doing wage work and poverty relief, mirroring, for example, arguments of the 1834 poor law commissioners, which suggested wage supplements diminished the skills, honesty and diligence of the labourer, and the more recent claim of Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice that the earned pound was “superior” to that received in benefits.
  • (2) With guidelines thus developed for acceptable detrusor pressure in both types of bladder, silent upper tract damage can probably be prevented in most cases by proper and diligent followup and appropriate intervention, avoiding major morbidity and mortality in these high risk patients.
  • (3) We have diligently done this, with one exception: today's star-in-waiting, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, with whom we have been in email contact but were unable to speak to in time for this column.
  • (4) The visitors had looked the more settled team in the first half here, tribute to their own energetic and diligent midfield and also to a general sluggishness in Chelsea’s passing and movement.
  • (5) These included “Project Bremner”, “Project Offside” and “Project Athena”, the latter set up to complete due diligence on Cellino before Leeds agreed to sell a controlling 75% stake in the club to the Italian.
  • (6) We believe in due diligence and will NOT recklessly involve innocent individuals #OpKKK November 2, 2015 The incorrect information appears to originate from a Twitter account with the name @sgtbilko420, which also claimed to be behind a denial of service attack that allegedly took down, among other sites, the website KKK.com on 31 October.
  • (7) Charnley would ideally like to be in a position to name the new manager by Friday but is determined to undertake full due diligence on all candidates on what is understood to be a three-man shortlist topped by McClaren and Vieira.
  • (8) Careful and diligent management of tracheostomy patients can circumvent many problems and allow the patient to breath with less difficulty.
  • (9) The UK remains one of the most diligent enforcers of convention rights, but it appears to have soured into one of the least appreciative national constituencies.
  • (10) Christine Ohuruogu sides with Mo Farah amid doping claims over Alberto Salazar Read more There are also questions about the due diligence process that took place before Farah joined Salazar in 2011, under UK Athletics’ previous performance director Charles van Commenee and the head of endurance Ian Stewart.
  • (11) Bruno Monteyne, an analyst at Bernstein Research, has said: “Sainsbury’s might be keen to avoid a bidding war, but we would expect them to match the Steinhoff bid, and hope that the fact they are further down the line on due diligence will mean the board will accept their offer.
  • (12) It is what I do with it, rather than what I am worth, that I believe is more important.” Unlike some of his predecessors, such as Bendor, the 2nd Duke, who lavished diamonds on his lover Coco Chanel and wanted Britain to ally with Hitler, the 6th Duke gave to and supported a string of charities and other worthy causes – £500,000 to farmers hit by the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, for instance – and served diligently on the boards of many military and other charities, including Emmaus , for the homeless, for more than 40 years.
  • (13) The England international tracked back diligently to halt a Leicester attack and intercepted for Simon Mignolet.
  • (14) The firm asked SHKP to supply missing due diligence documents, including identification documents for Chan, in case Hong Kong investigators came asking about the company.
  • (15) All sources agree that O'Hagan did his job diligently and produced a draft manuscript by March, as required.
  • (16) A vote for Hillary means we can not count on the press to honestly and diligently keep the public informed of Hillary’s potential malfeasance.
  • (17) But during his own years in the House Balls has worked the back-benches assiduously, diligently touring round constituency dinners on damp Friday nights.
  • (18) The most important developments in gynecologic oncology in recent years have been the advent of supervoltage irradiation that allows the delivery of better and safer therapy; the diligent search for new cancerostatic drugs and hormones and their clinical application, singly and in combination; and studies suggesting the possibility of immunotherapy.
  • (19) Yes, the NHS has been weaponised, but it was the Tories who primed the guns | Polly Toynbee Read more “David Cameron’s failure to exercise due diligence on the reforms would come back to haunt him.” The huge ensuing controversy – the largest generated by any changes in the NHS – pitted the medical establishment against the coalition.
  • (20) The indebted, but diligent person, is more valuable to the lending industry.

Enterprising


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
  • (2) Mass examination in organized populations at industrial enterprises made it possible to bring to light a statistically significant different effect of the level of productive labor and sport activity on the prevalence of frequent alcohol consumption as one of CHD risk factors.
  • (3) In this review, the instrumentation essential to any microsurgical enterprise and the sutures available are described.
  • (4) As a result existing job definitions and traditional forms of organization are being challenged and attempts made to restructure work so that it becomes meaningful and rewarding in the fullest sense, to the individual, to the enterprise, and to society.
  • (5) Defining personality and its pathological variants is a hazardous enterprise.
  • (6) "I would go further: where they work properly, open markets and free enterprise can actually promote morality.
  • (7) He said he hoped the eurozone countries would "get their act together" and make it a success, adding: "The last thing we should do is say 'oh in that case we wash our hands of the whole enterprise and we'll get out'.
  • (8) The clinical structure of the revealed neuropsychic disturbances has been studied on the materials of blanket examination of several thousands of employees at a large industrial enterprise.
  • (9) That “social enterprise” is just a figleaf, which canny, profit-driven companies can manipulate (Emma Harrison, founder of A4e, famously used to call it a “social purpose company” before the Advertising Standards Authority, of all people, put a stop to it ).
  • (10) There is no shortage of aspiration-raising initiatives from social enterprises and charities offering the sort of “inspiring visitors” programmes that she proposes.
  • (11) They would work with local enterprise partnerships, set up by the coalition following its abolition of regional development agencies.
  • (12) Sometimes it helps when an enterprise can point to the success of an affiliate in another country.
  • (13) The mode of administration of chemotherapy is evaluated, in conditions of integration, and under strict supervision, in tuberculosis patients in 12 medical dispensaries and in 6 enterprise dispensaries from Craiova over a period of one year.
  • (14) In the international categories, a Nicaraguan company won the energy enterprise award for installing more than 400 kilowatt peak (kWp) of solar photovoltaic energy, often in rural areas without a national grid connection.
  • (15) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
  • (16) With social enterprises represented in an increasing number of markets, customers are being presented with choices about how they spend their money – and whether by that choice they can help to build a fairer society.
  • (17) The 126 747 examinations for risk factors revealed a succesive increase in the detection indices as follows: 0.76 per thousand among students, 1.36 per thousand in silicogen risk enterprises, 2.07 per thousand among the workers on building sites, 2.22 per thousand among diabetics, 2.76 per thousand among contacts, 2.85 per thousand among hyperergic subjects, 3.89 per thousand among former patients no longer on the files, 4.17 per thousand among alcoholics and patients under psychical treatment, 6.01 per thousand among patients with minimal lesions and 6.82 thousand among those with sequelae.
  • (18) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
  • (19) This infection affected persons working at one of sheep-breeding complexes, as well as at enterprises, technologically linked with this complex.
  • (20) Variables within the referring analyst, patient, candidate, and supervisor are examined in their interaction with the circumstances of the assessment enterprise.