What's the difference between exoneration and onerous?

Exoneration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were completely exonerated and released in 2004.
  • (2) Google agreed to change the ways it presents some search results and runs search advertising, but was exonerated of the results bias claims.
  • (3) In the past King has hinted at select committee sessions that Labour allowed public spending to rise too fast but his latest remarks are one of his clearest exonerations of Labour for the financial crash.
  • (4) The residents were exonerated of all charges by a review panel with lay and physician representation after testimony of expert witnesses.
  • (5) A negative FNA biopsy result does not exonerate the clinically suspicious lesion.
  • (6) In public they have welcomed an inquiry because they believe they will be exonerated of any accusations of profiteering or non-competitive actions.
  • (7) The underlying meaning of the first phase of this trial is, Clarke’s opening statement made clear, not to exonerate Tsarnaev completely of the 30 charges against him, but to win the jury’s trust for the second, death-penalty phase, when they will hear arguments as to whether to sentence Tsarnaev to die.
  • (8) Blatter himself was exonerated by Fifa because the receipt of commercial bribes was not a crime in Switzerland at the time he knew the money was paid to Havelange.
  • (9) Romania's agriculture minister Daniel Constantin angrily said an official investigation had exonerated his country's abattoirs.
  • (10) The 'judge-led inquiry' that never was is shut down and investigating kidnap and torture in freedom's name will be left to a watchdog that never barks and which exonerated the spooks six years ago."
  • (11) This is no surprise from someone who doesn’t like to read , is not fond of history showing he was sued for housing discrimination, and won’t apologize for calling for the execution of the Central Park 5 years after they were exonerated.
  • (12) This methodology resulted in an exoneration from the manual graphic-calculatory expenditure and in comparison to the traditional calculation method it did not show any statistically significant differences.
  • (13) In former times, up to the first world war, about a percentage of 74 of all criminal cases in connection with poriomania was exonerated on the erroneous assumption that the behaviour of the so-called poriomania would be caused by epilepsy.
  • (14) Having helped exonerate 16 clients already, Zellner said she intends to press forward with the Griggs, Johnson and Harris cases even if the DNA evidence is inconclusive.
  • (15) In 1967, BP chartered the vessel but was widely exonerated.
  • (16) Exonerated By the following morning, on 4 April, Patel's preliminary diagnosis on cause of death was being taken to mean the case was closed, while the information from Moore, Smith and Jackson did not appear to be making any difference.
  • (17) Why do we punish Dakota pipeline protesters but exonerate the Bundys?
  • (18) The sensible and motorial deficit can be decisively influenced by an early exoneration of the neurovascular septum.
  • (19) A government investigation has exonerated Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and his finance minister Luis Videgaray of any wrongdoing regarding the purchase of mansions and holiday homes from public contractors .
  • (20) Adams insists the report exonerates him and told the Guardian he denies any wrongdoing.

Onerous


Definition:

  • (a.) Burdensome; oppressive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Onerous new regulations could threaten the shale energy revolution, America’s role as a global energy superpower, and the dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions made possible by an abundant and affordable domestic supply of clean-burning natural gas,” Jack Gerrard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said in a statement.
  • (2) Picking positives from a third successive league loss, the first time Chelsea have endured that since Gianluca Vialli’s stewardship, must have felt onerous even if Willian was excellent once again and Eden Hazard – for all that he has gone 1,375 minutes without a Premier League goal – arguably produced his best performance of the season.
  • (3) The retailer has also taken a £70m hit from onerous leases, and distribution centre closures in Harlow and Weybridge cost £30m.
  • (4) Bank credit is available, but only at a price, and on conditions businesses consider too onerous.
  • (5) With the growing AIDS problem, the serious TB burden in sub-Saharan Africa may become even more onerous and may critically overload the stressed African health care systems.
  • (6) But that was a clear demotion, unlike Hague whose decision to stand down at the election paved the way for a less onerous cabinet post.
  • (7) The radiologic and histologic problems of differential diagnosis, and the subtle distinction between benign and malignant make decision an onerous task for surgeons, orthopedists, pathologists, oncologists and radiotherapists.
  • (8) The most onerous challenge for the Football Association in its search for a new England manager may no longer be whittling down a list of impressive coaches, but convincing the successful candidate that they will still have a career of note when it all falls apart.
  • (9) Conservative MP David Morris, the government’s ambassador for small businesses, warned that the self-employed were concerned the new system would be onerous and lead to overpayments in some cases.
  • (10) The onerous terms of the deeply unpopular “memoranda”, agreed with foreign lenders to keep insolvent Greece afloat, would be overturned.
  • (11) If the government lifted its gag orders on the companies, the co-operation would appear "a lot less onerous and problematic for civil liberties.
  • (12) Over-onerous rules, such as borrowers having to be experienced landlords or earning significant minimum incomes have eased a little, making buy-to-let an even more attractive investment."
  • (13) "Our ratios put a cap on the salaries staff can be paid because of onerous requirements on numbers.
  • (14) Issues with buying Five, which made losses of €41m last year, include onerous foreign programme deals such as a lifetime series commitment to contribute to the production of Home & Away and its TV sales operation increasingly suffering against larger rivals in the market.
  • (15) Trying to follow through a complaint in relation to a non-Queensland police officer, either interstate or internationally, would be an onerous task and unlikely to generate a reasonable outcome,” he said.
  • (16) Many financial firms will be exempt from the most onerous requirements of the Financial Services Authority's new code on bonuses, it emerged today – just as David Cameron stepped up his rhetoric against City pay.
  • (17) As lead singer, Michael's schedule was more onerous than that of his brothers.
  • (18) I don’t think six months is unduly onerous.” The trust’s public value test – the first time it has used such a procedure to look at the closure of a service rather than the launch of a new one – will look at how the proposals will impact on licence fee payers and look at value for money, reach, quality of service and whether it is an effective use of public funds.
  • (19) Yet dealing with AIDS in this traditional society is an onerous task.
  • (20) Worse, the debt is structured so that the compound interest rate effect of not paying it off early makes it even more onerous, an effect vastly more likely to hit students from disadvantaged homes.

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