What's the difference between exemplary and perfect?

Exemplary


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.
  • (a.) Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
  • (a.) Illustrating as the proof of a thing.
  • (n.) An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
  • (2) Three million of us are behind our team!” trumpets La Republica, who hail “the national team's exemplary behaviour so far, both individually and collectively.” Naturally they were saying exactly the same thing after the defeat to Costa Rica.
  • (3) He could execute in an exemplary fashion pieces of music for the organ in his repertory as well as improvise.
  • (4) The second cause for alarm is more real – the insistence on imposing exemplary, or punitive, damages on those who don't join the regulator (and, in some circumstances, even those who do).
  • (5) But Miller, in continuing to urge publishers to be "recognised" by the charter did refer to the "incentives", meaning a protection from the payment of legal costs for libel claimants (even if unsuccessful) and the imposition of exemplary damages (which would be very doubtful anyway).
  • (6) Lt General Stephen Speakes applauded Greene for a “sense of self, a sense of humility” and an exemplary work ethic, according to an account of the promotion ceremony published by the Times Union of Albany, New York, which called Greene an Albany native.
  • (7) On Friday, Hacked Off called for an urgent correction to one of the major sticking points for Fleet Street: the unintended vulnerability of the amateur blogger who, due to "bad government drafting", could have found themselves liable for exemplary damages.
  • (8) "[The CQC inspectors] saw some exemplary care, but some hospitals were not even getting the basics right.
  • (9) Her plan was angrily rejected by the food and drink industry, which claimed an exemplary code already existed that had been rigidly followed by the industry.
  • (10) These states were selected for the purpose of illustrating two different approaches and not necessarily for the presentation of exemplary evaluation practices.
  • (11) Unstable angina pectoris, a particular form of acute coronary heart disease is described in two exemplary cases.
  • (12) The intellectual elegance of her work – and its exemplary quality as an Anthropocene-aware artefact – lies in its subtle tracing of the technological and imperial histories involved in a single extinction event and its residue.
  • (13) Spotlight is more akin Argo , Ben Affleck’s big winner in 2013: it takes a conventional approach to telling a compelling true story, with assured direction and exemplary performances from its ensemble cast.
  • (14) No 10 insists Cameron was kept in close contact with the talks from his offices a quarter of a mile away in Downing Street, but it was not necessary for him to be personally present since the substantive talks had already occurred, and the purpose of the Letwin meeting was purely to tidy up aspects of exemplary damages.
  • (15) They won't put to rights the arbitration procedures that local editors fear; they'll continue to debate the rights and wrongs of exemplary damages till kingdom come.
  • (16) Sharon Allen, chief executive of Skills for Care, said the academy was doing “exemplary work” and that the award was “well-deserved”.
  • (17) This failure of supportive, exemplary democratic leadership is even more apparent in Washington, where the longer Barack Obama has remained in office, held hostage by a hostile Congress, the more myopic, seemingly, has become his global strategic vision.
  • (18) Petrolheads should have been a cast-iron hit – the logic behind it was exemplary: people love Have I Got News For You, people love Top Gear, Neil Morrissey is a beloved comic actor.
  • (19) At the Economist, we have always been supportive of the idea that anything that could be done to clean up Britain's libel laws[, should be done] … the idea of exemplary damages for people who are outside the system I find very difficult," he said.
  • (20) The investigators believe that collaboration, caring, and communication are the essence of exemplary health care.

Perfect


Definition:

  • (a.) Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
  • (a.) Well informed; certain; sure.
  • (a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
  • (n.) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
  • (a.) To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his interview, Smith accepts that the EA's response to the flooding has not been perfect.
  • (2) Selective catheterisation enabled opacification under pressure in more than 80 p. cent of cases, with perfect visualisation of the entire tubes and significant peritoneal passage.
  • (3) In fact the deep femoral artery represents an exceptional and privileged route for anastomosis that is capable of replacing almost perfectly an obstructed superficial femoral artery and also in a more limited way femoro-popliteal arteries with extensive obstructions.
  • (4) In 9 other patients studied 2-7 years after transplantation the mean level of parathormone was lower than in the previous group but levels above normal were noted in half of the patients, some of which had perfect renal function and normal serum phosphorus.
  • (5) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (6) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
  • (7) Also bear in mind that this request is just that, you are asking the club to place you on the transfer list, which they are perfectly entitled to reject.
  • (8) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
  • (9) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
  • (10) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
  • (11) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.
  • (12) The arrest warrant, which came into effect in 2004, was not perfect, but it was immediately useful, leading to the swift extradition of one of London’s would-be bombers in July 2005, Hussain Osman, from Italy, where he had fled.
  • (13) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
  • (14) Michael Grade told ITV staff today that it was the "perfect time" to hand over to a new chief executive, who would inherit a "revitalised" broadcaster.
  • (15) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
  • (16) In most cases the fingerprints of duplicates of the same cell line remained perfectly preserved even after long-time passaging.
  • (17) Incorporation of prosthodontics are expected to depend not only on technical perfection.
  • (18) That idea may seem irrelevant to those of us who live a broadband lifestyle, but Justin Smith – who tracks the company's movements on the Inside Facebook blog – says that it makes perfect sense.
  • (19) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
  • (20) Fifty percent of the amino acids are perfectly conserved in all these proteins as well as in two homologous sequences from the distantly related wolffish.