What's the difference between driven and relentless?

Driven


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Drive
  • (p. p.) of Drive. Also adj.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ten animals served as sedentary controls, the 10 experimental animals were subjected to a training program with gradually increasing intensity of 18 weeks duration on a motor-driven treadmill.
  • (2) The analyzed tRNA gene behaved like a single transcription unit driven by its own promoter.
  • (3) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
  • (4) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
  • (5) The neoplastic T cells of three patients had helper activity on both PWM- and IL-2-driven Ig synthesis, and in addition produced IL-2 in response to PWM stimulation.
  • (6) But for the mid Atlantic, the models showed that only human-driven global warming could explain the increase in saltiness – the first time such an explicit link has been made between climate change and salinity.
  • (7) However, only a small fraction of the neurons (2 of 13 tested) which received such convergent inputs could be antidromically driven from the upper thoracic spinal cord.
  • (8) It reveals just how China's appetite for wood has grown in the past decades as a result of consumption by the new middle classes, as well as an export-driven wood industry facing growing demand from major foreign furniture and construction companies.
  • (9) Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD) inhibits this carrier in a time- and concentration -dependent manner as shown by the following evidence: it inhibits the carrier-mediated pH gradient driven monoamine uptake without collapsing the pH gradient; it affects the binding of the specific inhibitors [2-3H]dihydrotetrabenazine and [3H]reserpine.
  • (10) We provide direct experimental evidence supporting the facts that these additional mechanistic components do exist and that the liver glutamate dehydrogenase reaction is indeed driven by just such machinery.
  • (11) The proton ionophore FCCP abolished the H(+)-gradient-driven but not the Na(+)-gradient-driven uptakes of both substrates.
  • (12) Euromaidan was a delayed echo of the social unrest wave , driven by the country's economic failure; it collided with a diplomatic situation that was already fractious over Syria.
  • (13) You have to prove there is a need.” Brian, a researcher with a PhD in medical science, was shocked and furious to find himself driven to food banks after a car accident, marital breakdown and sudden unemployment left him without enough money to live on.
  • (14) They had to see off a driven and capable Everton team and Roberto Martínez was not being disingenuous when he said the final score felt like a deception.
  • (15) And HAP has shown that the key finding that debt slows growth was driven overwhelmingly by the exclusion of four years of data from New Zealand.
  • (16) Setting out how Britain would have a lever over the rest of the EU to demand repatriation of UK competences, Cameron said: "What's happening in Europe right now is massive change being driven by the existence of the euro.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A storm driven wave crashes against the sea wall at Saltcoats.
  • (18) If Thatcher's government is in part to blame, then Bill Clinton's is even more so; driven by a desire to let every American own their own home, it was Clinton's decision to create the ill-fated sub-prime mortgage system .
  • (19) Cytokine-driven hepatic VLDL production during infection most likely represents a part of the acute phase response.
  • (20) The Sunni, driven from power and office by the invaders, were unwilling to accept their newly diminished status.

Relentless


Definition:

  • (a.) Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
  • (2) The history of events at the end of 2010, from the moment on 4 November when Cable called in the regulators, shows how relentlessly James Murdoch and his PR man Frédéric Michel lobbied and berated the politicians who were trying to stand in their way.
  • (3) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
  • (4) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
  • (5) While none of the fears that have rattled markets are yet realised, the relentless focus on possible risks will likely see another soggy Asia-Pacific trading session.
  • (6) But when he decided to teach you a lesson, he was relentless, and he took no prisoners.
  • (7) A handful of the global superstars – Usain Bolt and now Mo Farah – have enhanced their personal value, but most have driven themselves relentlessly for the glory alone.
  • (8) The pressure from Fulham became relentless and in the 66th minute West Ham's defences burst.
  • (9) The last few months have seen the former secretary of state dogged by a relentless focus over her use of a private email server , dipping favorabillity numbers and the rise of Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who is challenging her for the Democratic party’s nomination.
  • (10) The competition has dozens of star players, almost all the most famous managers, and creates enough drama to feed a relentless media appetite.
  • (11) The story of the past 30 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain, the single biggest change to the British economy in the postwar era.
  • (12) Medication, splintage, and physiotherapy are useful in helping to suppress and reduce the effects of the disease, but in some patients arthritis attacks in acute episodes, while in others arthritis chronically and relentlessly pursues its destructive course.
  • (13) Each sentence seems more absurd than the last until you are finally and irredeemably overwhelmed by its relentless meaningful meaninglessness.
  • (14) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
  • (15) He’s extra confident in my ability to get forward and to develop as a player.” Of his role under the German, Clyne says: “I’ll say definitely pressing on the front foot, setting the trap for the opposition team, and getting more forward on the pitch, and [being] solid defensively as well.” Despite a near-perfect performance when Liverpool handed Manchester City a lesson in high pressing and relentless energy during their 4-1 victory at the Etihad Stadium on 21 November, Klopp never stopped shouting on the touchline.
  • (16) It doesn't look like that, of course, when the doctor's surgery starts putting up signs in Polish, or your child can't get in to the nearest primary school, and the trajectory of the jobless figures seems relentlessly upwards – even when it is not.
  • (17) Joanne Segars, NAPF's chief executive, said: "The pressures on final-salary pensions are relentless and their rate of decline seems to be shifting into a new gear.
  • (18) The movement has been relentlessly promoted by Fox News, which belongs to a more familiar billionaire.
  • (19) This report demonstrates that it’s time we applied the same relentless focus on transparency and results to funding to the private sector,” he said.
  • (20) Right-to-work advocates are relentless, he indicates: “We have seen a literal campaign from the other side sprout up in the early summer: ‘Don’t forget to leave the union.’” He calls the 5,000 members who have jumped ship “not a tremendous loss” in the context of current workers.