What's the difference between execution and guillotining?

Execution


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.
  • (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer.
  • (n.) The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music.
  • (n.) The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.
  • (n.) A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.
  • (n.) The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.
  • (n.) That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do.
  • (n.) The act of sacking a town.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) Ciarán Devane, Macmillan's chief executive, welcomed the rethink.
  • (3) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (4) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (5) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (6) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
  • (7) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (8) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (9) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (10) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
  • (11) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
  • (12) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
  • (13) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (14) Several types of neurons were differentiated on the basis of a study of neuronal activity in various parts of the cortex near the sulcus principalis during the execution of spatial delayed reactions by monkeys.
  • (15) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
  • (16) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (17) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
  • (18) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (19) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (20) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".

Guillotining


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guillotine

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I personally think we should go to the guillotine, but shooting is probably the right way to go,” he said.
  • (2) In cases of solid submucosal tumors confirmed on EUS, the guillotine needle biopsy enables a definitive histologic diagnosis.
  • (3) We conclude that the guillotine used in controlled circumstances is as safe as dissection.
  • (4) Twenty-nine (Group A) had a primary below-knee (BK) amputation at the site of election with delayed primary skin closure, while 44 patients (Group B) initially had a guillotine BK amputation below the site of election, with elective amputation at the appropriate level once infection had been eradicated (4-5 days later).
  • (5) A new multi-bladed air-driven guillotine is described.
  • (6) Not that I'd dare tell everyone to be vegetarian, but I can warn those silly gourmets defending F&M's right to sell this "delicacy", that come the revolution, it won't be the guillotine for them, just tubes of grain and fat pumped endlessly down their throats.
  • (7) In the event of advancing, unremitting infection involving the foot, ankle guillotine amputation may be a life-saving technique.
  • (8) They took three groups of children: one where the tonsils have been removed with both of the guillotines, then a group where only a Sluder was used, and the third group where only the Popper was used.
  • (9) Replantation of hands severed cleanly (guillotine type) and those with slight local crush injuries had the highest success rate.
  • (10) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
  • (11) Watched by a quiet, oddly tense crowd of onlookers, the couple looked almost unbearably young and vulnerable – as if, one observer joked, on their way to the guillotine.
  • (12) "Guillotine"-amputation in the acute phase and muscle plastic stump formation in the regeneration phase.
  • (13) When a patient with neuropathic diabetic gangrene of the foot has sepsis, it is not always necessary to do a below-knee guillotine amputation or a Syme's amputation.
  • (14) They range from the dorsal slit incision, the squeeze technique using the Gomco clamp or Plastibell, the sleeve resection technique, and the guillotine technique.
  • (15) Blood samples were collected via guillotine from mated and unmated controls at 1900-2000 h or 2100--2200 h. Serum LH levels were determined by two independent radioimmunoassays.
  • (16) After visualization by EUS the guillotine needle biopsy was performed in 21 patients with submucosal tumors of the stomach.
  • (17) The resultant order of preference as a standard method was compressive strength at 30 minutes after preparation of the specimen, the time to the last transverse cut on a cylindrical specimen with a "guillotine" blade and the time to nonfracture of a ball of a amalgam with a final set Gillmore needle.
  • (18) The papers tell the stories of deportees who were forced to listen to fellow prisoners being decapitated by guillotine in German prisons, or were ordered to bury those who died during forced marches across Germany at the end of the war.
  • (19) Three assay systems were used to measure pPTH levels from trunk blood samples obtained by guillotine decapitation.
  • (20) Henry Barnes Vive la guillotine Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly.

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