What's the difference between equitant and horseback?
Equitant
Definition:
(a.) Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.
(a.) Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris.
Example Sentences:
(1) A national plan is proposed for the equitable allocation of extrarenal organs, with particular reference to the liver.
(2) "GNH is an aspiration, a set of guiding principles through which we are navigating our path towards a sustainable and equitable society.
(3) "Unless and until vulnerabilities are addressed effectively, and all people enjoy the opportunity to share in human development progress, development advances will be neither equitable nor sustainable," Clark said, noting that protection for vulnerable people should be included in the sustainable development goals, which will replace the millennium development goals when they expire next year.
(4) Like them, Benjamin is not a revolutionary; he doesn't want to make a new, more free or equitable society.
(5) Well, news from the commuters and the rail users is that we don't like it, and we want a cheaper more equitable service.
(6) It represents a temporary drop in traditionally defined living standards, in exchange for a more equitable and sustainable future – a concept that our grandparents' generation embraced, as they endured rationing but also produced the NHS, social housing and social security.
(7) Continuous modification of the core curriculum in a systematic and equitable manner is essential to meeting the needs of future graduates.
(8) Instead, it was to find out if such abortion was obtainable equitably across Canada, and the answer is "no."
(9) O’Brien’s successor as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Leo Cushley, said: “I am confident that the decision of the Holy Father is fair, equitable and proportionate.
(10) Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey said: "While respecting Ineos's right to make this decision, it is regrettable that both parties have not managed to negotiate a fair and equitable settlement that delivers a viable business model for the plant.
(11) This study indicates the need for further analyses of activities by differing patient groupings to facilitate rational and equitable health care planning.
(12) Tanzania should also balance the distribution of resources between urban and rural so as to comply with the objective of the national health policy of comprehensive basic health services equitably to all within the limited available resources and to be able to reach the ultimate goal of health for all the people in the country by the year 2,000.
(13) I will propose a new school funding model from the commonwealth which will be flatter, simpler, fairer to all the states and territories and equitable between students,” he said.
(14) A reliable delivery system and effective management of the system determine the availability and equitable distribution of vaccines.
(15) Greece thus lacked a mechanism to negotiate a social compact to cut wages, pensions, and other obligations in an equitable way.
(16) The rights of individuals to human dignity and charity are well established and could contribute to a peaceful solution in an equitable and humane society.
(17) A laundry facility supplying linen to several hospitals needs to keep a good account of the numbers of different types of linen which enter and leave its premises so as to allocate the costs fairly and equitably among member hospitals.
(18) Fortunately, it is eminently possible to transform our economy so that it is less resource-intensive, and to do it in ways that are equitable, with the most vulnerable protected and the most responsible bearing the bulk of the burden.
(19) So, in the time left to me as editor, I thought I would try to harness the Guardian’s best resources to describe what is happening and what – if we do nothing – is almost certain to occur, a future that one distinguished scientist has termed as “incompatible with any reasonable characterisation of an organised, equitable and civilised global community”.
(20) These would put workers and governments on an equitable footing and give them the chance to establish adequate social protection.
Horseback
Definition:
(n.) The back of a horse.
(n.) An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
(2) Police, some on horseback, began to gain control of a 200-metre stretch of the high road by around midnight, allowing fire-engines to tackle the raging fires.
(3) Other attempts to boost his image as a tough man of action have included photos of him hunting, arm wrestling, riding horseback and fitting a collar to a tranquilised polar bear.
(4) Police charged the 1,000-strong group on horseback.
(5) Photograph: Dan Chung These days travellers along the route come by bus or plane rather than camel or horseback; laden with cameras rather than goods.
(6) Soldiers on horseback charged into the crowd, and water cannon were used in an attempt to push back the protesters.
(7) The Sudanese government responded by unleashing the janjaweed (Arabic for devil on horseback) militia on the rebels.
(8) In March, up to 400 elephants were killed in a few hours in a park in Cameroon by a Sudanese gang on horseback bearing machine guns .
(9) The point is profit.” It easy to laugh at some of the creations, and some will surely travel to the city just to see the hilariously clumsy statues of painters wielding paintbrushes, large-breasted maidens, and the dozens of rugged warriors on horseback.
(10) To sceptics, he was an opportunist prone to gimmicks – such as the attractive policewomen who paraded around Dalian on horseback when he ran the city.
(11) This report summarizes a study by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to characterize all horseback-riding-associated deaths during 1979-1989 and to determine what proportion of riders had used alcohol before death.
(12) Officers were making extra patrols on foot, in vehicles, on bicycles and on horseback.
(13) The article surveys some of the scientific fundamentals of hippo- and riding therapy, and its methods using the characteristic horseback three dimensional rhythmic movement impulses for its therapeutic values, particularly in cerebral palsy.
(14) At Thursday's MPA meeting, Joanne McCartney, a MPA member, pressed Stephenson to clarify the situation over the horseback charge by officers.
(15) In our family, one of the more “liberal” in our church, we were usually allowed to wear pants at home (when we weren’t around other ATI families and for activities like horseback riding), but jeans were strictly forbidden.
(16) After one lieutenant was doused in water from a bottle hurled from the crowd, five officers on horseback arrived from behind the station and positioned themselves around five yards from the police front line.
(17) Charles I had good reason to be grateful to his favourite portraitist who, in paintings such as a famous barn door-sized image of the king in armour on horseback, made his diminutive form into a towering emblem of wisdom and majesty.
(18) About 3,000 officers will be on duty, with another 120 on horseback.
(19) An easygoing ride on horseback is the best way to take in the scenery and, within a couple of hours, I'm beginning to get used to Tango and his ways.
(20) Only about 200 Pegida supporters were present in the Dutch city, outnumbered by police and leftwing demonstrators who shouted: “Refugees are welcome, fascists are not.” Dutch riot police detained several people as officers on horseback intervened to separate the two groups.