What's the difference between emphatic and resounding?

Emphatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Emphatical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
  • (2) Once more the opportunity arose from a lack of cohesion down City’s left, Victor Wanyama breaking up play in midfield and feeding Tadic, who advanced and slipped a precise ball between Kolarov and Eliaquim Mangala to Mané, who emphatically finished past Hart.
  • (3) His first hat-trick for the club, at a stadium where visiting players are not used to profiting, was emphatic proof of that.
  • (4) It was emphatically not, as the Tory right and the dismayed left have already concluded, evidence that Britain remains a fundamentally conservative country.
  • (5) Nevertheless, the usefulness of gut endocrinology in the clinical management of gastrointestinal diseases, following an emphatic start, is now restricted to gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours.
  • (6) People use it to buy things, but (as the firm emphatically proclaims) "Kickstarter is not a store" – so it doesn't have to offer the same protections.
  • (7) The composition of the different protein-containing food substrata exerts emphatic influence on the induction of these enzymes.
  • (8) Manuel Pellegrini was delighted by the style with which Manchester City knocked out Paris Saint-Germain to reach the Champions League semi-finals and the manager was emphatic they can win the competition.
  • (9) Pearson has advocated the separate document since last year, but on Monday made his most emphatic remarks on the subject at the launch of Uphold and Recognise , an organisation “committed both to upholding the Australian constitution and recognising Indigenous Australians”.
  • (10) Sánchez and Özil demonstrated their class with exquisite interplay before the German crossed for Campbell, who finished emphatically before being engulfed by team-mates delighted both for the player and for a victory that augurs well for the club.
  • (11) The finish was emphatic, an afternoon’s frustration expunged with one swing of his left boot.
  • (12) Two goals each from Wayne Rooney, Ashley Young and the debutant Reece James , plus Danny Welbeck’s opener, returned an emphatic victory in United’s opening game of their summer tour of the US.
  • (13) Most have emphatically rejected proposals that they be forced to apply for warrants to access metadata.
  • (14) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
  • (15) Indeed, the episode became part of a new escalation in hostilities between the two candidates which would later include King's charge -emphatically denied - that Respect activists were seeking to whip up Muslim antagonism against her by highlighting her Jewish background.
  • (16) Representing the German consensus, Schulz was much more emphatic about not isolating Russia and keeping the door open to negotiations.
  • (17) John Healey, shadow health secretary, emerging as a soberly effective and emphatic critic, this week exposed how new inflation figures show the NHS will suffer a real cut, alongside its most radically disruptive reorganisation.
  • (18) Most previous polls have found opinion leaning the same way, although the two-to-one margin revealed on Wednesday is particularly emphatic.
  • (19) There are clear majorities against unqualified teaching, especially emphatic among Labour voters (68%) and even more particularly Ukip supporters (73%).
  • (20) They were valid questions but Germany’s answer has been emphatic.

Resounding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resound

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
  • (2) Nor – despite today's declaration that the three-day meeting had been a resounding success – was there more than patchy progress.
  • (3) Promising to tear up bailout agreements that had created a “humanitarian crisis”, Syriza surged to a resounding victory .
  • (4) 10.03am: This from Hiraldo_TIFC, one of the Guardian Fans' Network members: Jürgen Klinsmann speaking about the process of Germany's revival in the last 6 years , worthwhile read #worldcup #GER 10.13am: Below the line, ChuckSchick asks: "Would a resounding German World Cup win, coupled with an impressive CL run by Bayern lead to greater Bundesliga coverage on UK television?
  • (5) This case resoundingly illustrates that the strength of our Program is not limited only to testing.
  • (6) He used a set of figures purporting to show high weekend death-rates that have since been resoundingly rubbished by health statisticians.
  • (7) A Guardian poll in August 2013 produced a resounding no vote on quotas for UK parliamentarians .
  • (8) That is a resounding rebuke for Berlusconi -- whose efforts to unseat Letta appear to have turned sour.
  • (9) At the end of the night guests voted a resounding 'yes' to supporting the campaign.
  • (10) Feed-in tariffs for solar panels – where the government pays people for creating their own renewable energy – have been a resounding success, but the government now intends to cut them back, a decision that has led to legal action from solar companies.
  • (11) The almost certain resounding no to the alternative vote shows clearly that the voters think otherwise.
  • (12) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
  • (13) Our current answer is not a resounding “No!” It’s a slightly interrogatively inflected “Probably not”, which is hardly a ringing endorsement of the health of American civilisation.
  • (14) But his resounding 4,091 majority delivered David Cameron a key marginal.
  • (15) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
  • (16) The astonishing popularity of the “rock-star economist ” is itself a resounding testament to our concern for inequality.
  • (17) Jubilant Republicans declared the US election race back on Thursday, calling Mitt Romney's resounding victory over Barack Obama in the first of the presidential debates a "game changer".
  • (18) Lionel Messi scored within three minutes of returning to action for the first time in more than three weeks to help fire Barcelona to a resounding 4-0 home win over Deportivo La Coruña .
  • (19) There is much evidence to suggest voters will resoundingly reject Corbynism in its current form if he makes it to the next election.
  • (20) As the Tory cheers resounded at the end of the budget speech, standing at the back was the diminished figure of Boris Johnson, wearing the look of a man that knew his future rival had set the bar somewhere he has never been in politics.