What's the difference between families and vendetta?

Families


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Family

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
  • (2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (3) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
  • (4) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (5) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
  • (6) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (7) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
  • (8) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
  • (9) This result demonstrates that branching enzyme belongs to a family of the amylolytic enzymes.
  • (10) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (11) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
  • (12) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
  • (13) Twelve families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) were studied by linkage analysis using 10 polymorphic marker loci from the X-chromosome pericentromeric region.
  • (14) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (15) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (16) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
  • (17) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
  • (18) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
  • (19) The family comprises at least three variable (V) gene segments, three constant (C) gene segments, and three junction (J) gene segments.
  • (20) Obesity in the Pimas is familial and has complex relationships with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a common disease in this population.

Vendetta


Definition:

  • (n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I followed Brooks over the seven-month period from when he was arrested until he was cleared, and the Guardian published a story stating that Brooks had been the victim of a police vendetta .
  • (2) So, too, does the bloody tradition of "rido", meaning clan warfare and inter-communal vendettas.
  • (3) Shaina Nana Chudasama, the spokeswoman for Modi's Hindu nationalist party, said that some charges against politicians were filed due to political vendettas.
  • (4) The Manchester experiment must be given a fair opportunity to succeed or fail, because local democracy is too important to be at the mercy of vendettas or changing fashions in planning policy, especially when instability plagues national politics in Britain.
  • (5) Erdoğan has also been criticised by EU countries for pursuing his vendetta with the Kurds while failing to stem the northwards flow of Syrian refugees and the southwards flow of Isis recruits from Europe and North America.
  • (6) Shiner also accused the government of pursuing a personal vendetta against him in revenge for his work gathering hundreds of cases against British forces in Iraq.
  • (7) Albanian's penal code refers to vendetta as premeditated murder, but the courts are still at a loss to know how to cope with this parallel system of justice.
  • (8) The connection was such that before long Ava had, Munn claims, chosen him as the person to whom she would confide all she knew about her ex-husband, Frank Sinatra , and his vendetta against mafia boss Sam Giancana, which in turn became the inside story of the Kennedys' involvement in the murder of Marilyn Monroe.
  • (9) It goes without saying that this charge is bogus and the result of a political vendetta.
  • (10) In a country such as Russia, where some people criticise their leaders for not being authoritarian enough, judicial vendettas are still tolerated by many – but if a genuine economic crisis hits Russia and the opposition's ranks grow further, we may be in for a wild ride.
  • (11) The decision was driven by the Tasmanian Liberals who have run a vendetta against the Greens and environmentalists since they lost their battle to flood the Franklin in 1983,” said Brown.
  • (12) The killing of Kevin McGuigan on 12 August was an internal republican vendetta for the shooting of a former IRA commander in May.
  • (13) Kandahar is a hotbed of long-running personal vendettas.
  • (14) The GOP – with its decades-running vendetta against women of people of color – allowed him to step right into the party’s candidacy, swapping over 40 years of dog-whistle politics for an attack hound bent on going after those already on the losing end of Republican policies.
  • (15) Supporters of the Anonymous hacking collective wore Guy Fawkes masks in reference to the cult pro-revolution film V for Vendetta.
  • (16) The Coalition’s Senate leader, Eric Abetz, told parliament the move was part of Palmer’s “personal vendetta” against Newman.
  • (17) V IS FOR VENDETTA Fergie pursued dangerous rivals across the pages of national newspapers with unmatched vigour.
  • (18) In 1975 Margaret Thatcher spoke of the Labour government’s “disastrous vendetta against small businesses and the self-employed”.
  • (19) The Azerbaijani media, which often acts as a mouth piece for the government, responded to the news by accusing Clooney of harbouring a vendetta against the Turkic countries of central Asia.
  • (20) It was necessary for God to come "down" personally to Earth and have himself tortured and executed, after being "betrayed" (though why it was a betrayal since getting himself executed was the main purpose of the visit, is never explained, nor is the millennia-long vendetta against Jews as "Christ-killers").

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