What's the difference between event and tribulation?

Event


Definition:

  • (n.) That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
  • (n.) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
  • (n.) The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.
  • (v. t.) To break forth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (2) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (3) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (4) Stress is laid on certain principles of diagnostic research in the event of extra-suprarenal pheochromocytomas.
  • (5) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
  • (6) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
  • (7) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
  • (8) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
  • (9) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
  • (10) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
  • (11) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (12) A second Scottish referendum has turned from a highly probable event into an almost inevitable one.
  • (13) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
  • (14) Cardiovascular disease event rates will be assessed through continuous community surveillance of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke.
  • (15) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
  • (16) A good understanding of upper gastrointestinal physiology is required to properly understand the pathophysiological events in various diseases or after operations on the upper gastrointestinal tract.
  • (17) We have examined the initial events in myelin synthesis, including the insertion and orientation of PLP in the plasma membrane, in rat oligodendrocytes which express PLP and the other myelin-specific proteins when cultured without neurons (Dubois-Dalcq, M., T. Behar, L. Hudson, and R. A. Lazzarini.
  • (18) These findings suggest that in hamsters (i) A and B antigens are tumor-related antigens; (ii) H, Le(b), Le(x) and Le(y) are oncofetal antigens; and (iii) fucosylation is an important event in cell differentiation.
  • (19) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
  • (20) Additionally, the "early warning" capability of SaO2 monitoring was analyzed by recording the severity and outcome of hypoxemic events during treatment.

Tribulation


Definition:

  • (n.) That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gotti Jr's sister, Victoria Gotti, has been the star of the TV series Growing Up Gotti, which endeavoured to show the trials and tribulations of life bearing the infamous Gotti name.
  • (2) After many trials and tribulations, this treatment modality has experienced a resurgence of interest in recent years.
  • (3) The very troubles and tribulations of the week will be cited as evidence of how his heroic deal-making abilities can overcome any hurdle, even the rightwing House Freedom Caucus – though another battle will loom in the Senate.
  • (4) I’ll make sure they stay interested.” Trump’s post-convention tribulations just prompted Time magazine to publish a stylised image of his head dribbling like hot wax beside a single word headline: “ Meltdown ”.
  • (5) His life became a tribulation, and a survival of sorts – an industrial accident working at an abattoir in Denmark, then finding a wife – "I woke up one morning and I was married" – and having three children.
  • (6) We'll be keeping track of their trials, tribulations and, hopefully, their triumphs.
  • (7) Guy Anderson, a defence analyst at IHS Jane's, said: "A merger between BAE and EADS is unlikely and wouldn't happen without a lot of trials and tribulations.
  • (8) There is little doubt that the Syrian government has, through various means, attempted to inflame the Lebanese theatre as a means of distracting attention from its own tribulations, and reminding all of its old game as the indispensable troublemaker and problem-solver : "If you want a stable Lebanon, you need the Assad regime."
  • (9) Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding In this third instalment of the diaries , our hapless hapless heroine continues to agonise over the tribulations of modern life large and small, from single parenthood and dating in the age of social media to the perils of the skinny jean.
  • (10) Even then, I was lucky enough to avoid the tribulations faced far too often by my friend Emma, manager of the BrewDog bar in Camden.
  • (11) As Sebald unfolds the story of Rousseau's tribulations ("a dozen years filled with fear and panic"), the essay seems, in its placeless antiquity, like one of Rousseau's own Reveries of a Solitary Walker , and suddenly it's not Rousseau's obsessive inability to stop thinking that is the theme, but Sebald's own obsessive inability ("the thoughts constantly brewing in his head like storm clouds").
  • (12) A lot of trials and tribulations led to this, people think everyone has no reason.
  • (13) Tellingly, the book's title as a work in progress was Tribulation.
  • (14) Their trials and tribulations should encourage future generations of cardiac surgeons to proceed with further developments in this field.
  • (15) Sir Alex Ferguson has sprung to the defence of Louis van Gaal and urged fans to be patient during Manchester United’s current tribulations.
  • (16) These traits were well depicted in Il Divo, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, which narrates the events surrounding Andreotti's trials and tribulations of 1991-92.
  • (17) The show, which revolves around twentysomethings finding their way in New York, presumes sympathy for the tribulations of college-educated young women with generous parents funding their identity crises.
  • (18) Weeks of trials and tribulations had opened my eyes to a profession I was not strong enough to be part of.
  • (19) Dr Crippin Description: "The trials and tribulations, the pleasures and pitfalls of family medicine in the modern British National Health Service."
  • (20) We present four brain tumor cases with his unpublished sketches and direct quotations to illustrate both the trials and tribulations of those times and Cushing's innate surgical genius.