What's the difference between empowered and sceptred?
Empowered
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Empower
Example Sentences:
(1) Many would argue that patient education has been used to serve the needs of the health care professional (through compliance) rather than empowering the patient.
(2) Long-term: The defeat of Isis is a political shaping exercise – you find moderate Sunni leaders, empower and install them in Syria and Iraq.
(3) What emerges strongly is the expressed belief of many that Isis can be persuasive, liberating and empowering.
(4) Read more “We know Tafe can be transformative for people who are doing it hard, bringing new skills to Indigenous communities, helping close the gender pay gap, empowering mature-age workers with the chance to retrain – not standing by while people from Holden and Ford are cast on the scrapheap,” Shorten will say.
(5) The genius of a democracy governed by the rule of law, our democracy, is that it both empowers the majority through the ballot box, and constrains the majority, its government, so that it is bound by law.” Turnbull added: “Why does Daesh [another term for Islamic State] hate us?
(6) To empower these nurses to respond effectively, it is imperative that the profession be reclarified as a specialty with a distinct philosophy and mission.
(7) We believe that listening to staff and empowering them to improve and contribute means there is likely to be a proportionate improvement in our patients' experience.
(8) The public, throughout the years of the coalition government, has been empowered to distrust teachers.
(9) Violent relationships aren’t limited to black eyes so it’s vital women are empowered to deal with psychological abuse as well, Australian of the Year Rosie Batty says.
(10) CAL is seen as a means of empowering the patient, rather than the nurse to take control, and this is viewed as a positive move in the direction of self-care.
(11) The revolution proved that a framework enabling people to self-organise in small but coordinated communities will empower them and set free their creative energies.
(12) These choices now open the way for Mr Juncker to pick the rest of his commission team, all of whom will face confirmation hearings at the newly empowered European parliament before the new commission takes over the reins in two months’ time.
(13) To counter this trend, Pol DHuyvetter, a Belgian who has lived in Babilônia since 2012, launched solar power project RevoluSolar, empowering residents to become energy self-sufficient as electricity bills have risen.
(14) Big Society Capital recently launched a £1m investment in Developing and Empowering Resources in Communities (Deric) , which has been proven in trials to increase care time by around 25%.
(15) These stages helped in shaping the characteristics of the discipline as a human science, a practice science, a science with social goals to empower nurses to provide effective and quality care, and one in which gender differences and the need for understanding minorities are areas of primary concern.
(16) Introduce 'new homes zones' But we need also to unlock land for development, empowering those who want to build high-quality homes quickly with the means to do so.
(17) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
(18) This is supposed to "empower" them and make it much easier for them to be held to account when budgets go awry, as they have a habit of doing in defence.
(19) The law also empowers courts to bar the journalists from working in their profession for up to a year.
(20) It may also be empowered to set limits on the size of loans that can be granted relative to a borrower's income.
Sceptred
Definition:
() of Sceptre
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
(2) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
(3) Of the two most successful imprints, with a pair of titles longlisted, Chatto (Flanagan, Mukherjee) is in the top group, but Sceptre (Hustvedt, David Mitchell) is a mere third-tier outfit in Booker terms, entitled to only two submissions.
(4) Much was made of the royal couple's modernity (the aeroplanes, radio and television), and the young Queen's femininity, able to juggle children and a handbag, along with the crown of state and orb and sceptre.
(5) It comes amid a spate of knife killings in London that has prompted Scotland Yard to renew its anti-knife initiative, Operation Sceptre .
(6) The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions by Rolf Dobelli is published by Sceptre, £9.99.
(7) Wintering, inspired by Plath's Ariel poems, by Kate Moses is published by Sceptre
(8) More powerfully still, we are made to visualise the horrific scenes in Rosenberg's most ambitious war poem, "Dead Man's Dump", from its very first lines: The plunging limbers over the shattered track Racketed with their rusty freight, Stuck out like many crowns of thorns, And the rusty stakes like sceptres old To stay the flood of brutish men Upon our brothers dear.
(9) I hesitated before taking the tiny hollow sceptre, but not for too long.
(10) But the Prince of Wales was determined not to let go of the only woman who had truly understood his loneliness and he and Camilla gradually began to be accepted as a couple by the ordinary people of this sceptred isle.
(11) The head of the Metropolitan police’s anti-knife initiative, Operation Sceptre, has admitted past failures in engaging with communities most affected by youth violence, amid criticism of the force’s latest strategy to tackle the problem.
(12) A mace head, a high-status object comparable to a sceptre, and a little bowl burnt on one side, which he believes may have held incense, suggest the dead could have been religious and political leaders and their immediate families.
(13) And, yet, if the Tory manifesto is more or less par for the course, although a bit too leftish in its message for the old party faithful (who wants riff-raff joining in the governance of these "sceptr'd isles"?
(14) The Met launched the eighth phase of Operation Sceptre at the beginning of the month, making 511 arrests and recovering 380 knives.
(15) When it’s a life and death situation, where you are seriously thinking that you’re going to be killed, you don’t care what the law says because the law’s not going to be there to protect you.” As part of the Operation Sceptre initiative, police said they were also recruiting community “role models” to deliver anti-knife messages to young people.
(16) The 18th-century Spanish crown and 17th-century sceptre were displayed rather than put on the king's head or in his hand, no foreign dignitaries or royals were invited and the afternoon reception for 2,000 guests featured finger foods rather than an elaborate banquet.
(17) The deaths have come amid a spate of stabbings in the capital that has spurred the Metropolitan police to revisit its anti-knife initiative , Operation Sceptre, with the formation of a dedicated 80-strong “murder suppression” unit.