What's the difference between disarmament and reduction?
Disarmament
Definition:
(n.) The act of disarming.
Example Sentences:
(1) Progress on treaties underpinning nuclear disarmament – which have too long been stalled – has also recently begun to look more hopeful, with renewed prospects for achieving the entry into force of the comprehensive test ban treaty and for starting negotiations on a treaty to ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive purposes.
(2) Foreign policy has long been one of his personal priorities, especially support for unilateral disarmament and Palestinian rights.
(3) "Nuclear disarmament is one of the things that Obama really cares about, and he decided to stake his personal credibility on this vote," said Anne Penketh, Washington programme director of the British American Security Information Council .
(4) Reaffirming his long-standing opposition to Trident in a BBC Scotland interview, Corbyn said: “In the House of Commons I was chair of the CND [Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament] group and one of the vice-chairs is from the SNP, and yes, we will be voting with them on this – or they will be voting with us, whichever way you want to put it.” Have you joined Labour since Corbyn became leader?
(5) The news is the latest in a series of recent blows to Barack Obama's attempts to keep alive his vision for global nuclear disarmament.
(6) Unfortunately, they have a track record of dishonouring their commitments.” Critics counter that demands for disarmament and withdrawal will have to be interpreted flexibly if a deal is to be done since the original resolution was too favourable to Riyadh.
(7) Japanese officials have not demanded an apology, preferring to frame Obama’s visit on 27 May as a catalyst for more global action on non-proliferation and disarmament.
(8) The new relationship, for the time being, is to be built around nuclear disarmament, which Obama said was a "good place to start" to reinvigorate a relationship he argued had been allowed to "drift" in recent years.
(9) The most contentious aspect of the treaty was the wording of article VI on disarmament which called upon states "to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament".
(10) The project is the part of NPA’s humanitarian disarmament strategy, which helps people in DRC and other war-affected countries to again start living normal lives free from the threat of injury or death.
(11) Julian Borger (@julianborger) A deserved Nobel prize for the OPCW, a disarmament success story, showing its worth in Syria.
(12) She added negotiations over any United Nations resolution enforcing the Syrian chemical weapons disarmament would take place separately in New York.
(13) The other will announce the resumption of talks on nuclear disarmament aimed at reaching a deal by the time the strategic arms reduction treaty (Start) expires on December 5.
(14) The presence of this staphylococcus is considered as a factor of risk and the indicator that the development of staphylococcal infections is highly possible, which makes the "immunological disarmament" in patients with a protracted course of EMPRN even more pronounced.
(15) Support for the humanitarian consequences pledge is making Australia’s position more difficult; it is galvanising public and political opinion, and Australia finds itself running against the domestic and international tide.” Thakur said Australia’s earlier leadership on nuclear disarmament had diminished over the past four years.
(16) The London demonstration was organised by Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Muslim Association of Great Britain.
(17) What they are prepared to do is tweak the existing doctrine," said Rebecca Johnson, the head of the Acronym Institute, a pro-disarmament pressure group.
(18) But on this day of all days it would be foolish, and maybe even dangerous, to imagine that the disarmament of a few would lead to all others suddenly and for ever giving up on their atomic weapons, or on the intention of building one.
(19) It was seen in Nye Bevan's shift from "no first use" to deriding disarmament as an "emotional spasm" that would send Britain " naked into the conference chamber ".
(20) He served more than a decade as Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations , where he developed an intricate knowledge of the workings of the Security Council, as well as deep experience in international disarmament efforts, including in Iraq.
Reduction
Definition:
(n.) The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.
(n.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.
(v. t.) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.
(v. t.) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.
(v. t.) The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.
(v. t.) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
(v. t.) The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.
(v. t.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(3) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(4) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
(5) By 1978, the reduction in incidence of measles will exceed 90%.
(6) Osteoporosis is characterized by a reduction in bone density.
(7) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
(8) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(9) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(10) Maximal covalent binding of [4,5-14C]ronidazole to DNA also required four-electron reduction, consistent with previous studies of the covalent binding of this agent to immobilized sulfhydryl groups [Kedderis et al.
(11) Optimum rates of acetylene reduction in short-term assays occurred at 20% O2 (0.2 atm (1 atm = 101.325 kPa] in the gas phase.
(12) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(13) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(14) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
(15) Anatomic and roentgenographic criteria used for the assessment of reduction in ankle fractures are highlighted in this review of ankle trauma.
(16) By increasing luminal air pressure from 10 to 20 cm H2O a significant reduction in GBF was observed.
(17) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(18) The results show that in TMO-treated animals the time to the onset of convulsions, the time to the onset of NADH oxidation-reduction cycles, and the survival time were significantly longer than in the control group.
(19) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.
(20) The analysis of total seizure days showed a significant reduction during LTG treatment (p less than 0.002).