What's the difference between grantee and vassal?

Grantee


Definition:

  • (n.) The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We present a case in which the dissenting views of a coinvestigator were suppressed because the principal investigator and grantee institution informed a medical journal that the coinvestigator was not "authorized" to use the data generated by a publicly funded grant and because the editor of a scholarly journal refused to review the dissenting manuscript and to submit that dissent to external reviewers for peer review.
  • (2) The principle investigator and the grantee institution claimed that the coinvestigator was not authorized to use data from the publicly funded grant, and the editor of a scholarly journal refused to review the dissenting manuscript or submit it for external peer review.
  • (3) Information on Title I EMAs is based on analysis of their 1991 applications, bylaws of their HIV service planning councils, intergovernmental agreements between Title I cities and other political entities, and contracts executed by Title I grantees with providers for the delivery of services.
  • (4) Future grant support will be a maximum of $4,000 in the first year, and up to $3,000 with a provision of $1,000 in matching funds from the grantee in the second year.
  • (5) A mail survey was conducted to document the experience, critical comments, and recommendations of a sample of applicants and peer reviewers who participated in the 1983 grantee selection process conducted by the National Institute of Handicapped Research.
  • (6) Interviews with personnel in several Title I EMAs, including planning council members and grantee staff members, provided additional information.
  • (7) Looking at the primary grantees in our database doesn’t provide a complete picture of where our funds end up and who they benefit.
  • (8) of Health, Education, and Welfare family planning grantee agencies.
  • (9) Four lessons can be drawn from this study: Donors need to plan funding phase-outs carefully, in conjunction with grantees; grantees need to assess the costs of the procedure realistically, and assign fees accordingly; management needs to seek alternative funding sources in lieu of, or in addition to, increasing fees; and caseloads can be increased and costs recovered by diversifying services.
  • (10) A greater percentage of grantees now have multiple grants and the cost of multiple grants is greater on a per grant basis.
  • (11) There are lots of grantees of ours whose members have political views that would be well outside the mainstream in this room.
  • (12) The good news is, there are different ways in which civil society “fundermediaries” can help: by disbursing smaller grants to smaller organisations in the global north (as Forum Syd does in Sweden), by using regional mechanisms (like the African Women’s Development Fund ) or by tapping into community foundations close to the ground (like the grantees of the Global Fund for Community Foundations .
  • (13) It added: "We regret that these new policies have impacted some longstanding grantees, such as Planned Parenthood, but want to be absolutely clear that our grant-making decisions are not about politics.
  • (14) At the same time, a common requirement among donors has become for grantees to show how gender perspectives have been incorporated or "mainstreamed" in projects.
  • (15) The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has established a Mycoplasma Contamination Testing Service for NIA grantees studying cellular aging on cell-culture systems.
  • (16) The grants are not tied to specific programmes, which means grantees can decide how best to spend their money.
  • (17) The accomplishments of NCI research grantees and contractors in radiotherapy-related areas have been considerable over the past 45 years.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Charlize Theron with young participants of one of her project’s grantees, WhizzKids United, which helps young people gain self-confidence through football.
  • (19) Grantees who failed to publish took about 16% of sustained project grants and 10% of such funding.
  • (20) This resource is designed to support NIA grantees, prospective grantees, and other laboratories engaged in cellular aging research.

Vassal


Definition:

  • (n.) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
  • (n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.
  • (a.) Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
  • (v. t.) To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A eurozone nakedly dominated by one state, Germany, enforcing destructive austerity on its vassals with such brutality, can have no enduring legitimacy.
  • (2) Data previously obtained (Tartakoff, A.M., and P. Vassalli.
  • (3) Does it occur to you that this process is totalitarian and that you behave as if the hundreds of thousands of teachers, parents, students and academics involved in education are your vassals?
  • (4) Another significant reason that Kenyan forces may be trying to create in Somalia a vassal state – or "buffer zone", as the Kenyan government prefers to call it – is to protect its own projects.
  • (5) The disputed subtropical archipelago lies between Japan and Taiwan, and in the course of its history was a vassal state of China , paying tribute for years before coming under Japanese sovereignty.
  • (6) They pointed out that the kingdom had previously been a Chinese vassal state, adding that the ruling Qing dynasty had been too weak to resist Japan's advance.
  • (7) He said such a situation would fail to give the sovereignty over laws and borders that people wanted through the leave vote, he said, adding: “To adopt the Norwegian situation would be to become a vassal state, because you actually end up paying money into the EU budget but you have less control over the regulations than you do now with a seat round the table.” The question of the single market is opening up another potential divide for Labour after Corbyn also insisted the UK would have to leave the grouping when Brexit takes place.
  • (8) Farm subsidies are the 21st century equivalent of feudal aid: the taxes medieval vassals were forced to pay their lords for the privilege of being sat upon.
  • (9) Gardiner also used the interview to claim that the UK would become a “vassal state” if it tried to replicate Norway, which has unfettered access to single market through its membership of the European Economic Area.
  • (10) The party believed Scotland was theirs for keeps, that voters could go nowhere else (whoops); and, in turn, Westminster Labour saw Scottish Labour as its vassal, too.
  • (11) We now want to focus also on cultural tourism, valorising our archaeological sites like Carthage, El Jam and the Bardo National Museum, where the richest collection of Roman mosaics in the world is kept.” Much of the compound was designed by and for the Beys, vassal-kings who ruled the area on behalf of the Ottoman empire from the early 18th century.
  • (12) Measurements of leukocyte enzymes confirm the findings of Vassalli et al.
  • (13) It wasn't all wrath and fury – although Putin made sure to point out that the US feared Russia's geographical size and its nuclear arsenal and "didn't want allies, but vassals".
  • (14) Here, Benedita Rocha, Pierre Vassalli and Delphine Guy-Grand discuss the rules of selection of extrathymic T cells, assess the possible role of these cells in the defence of epithelial integrity and their potential role in autoimmune disease.
  • (15) Editors, two of whose journalists had been jailed at the time of the scandal concerning the Soviet spy John Vassall, were reluctant to cross the Macmillan government again.
  • (16) The participants include not just practicing architects – such as the French duo Lacaton & Vassal, masterminds of the barely-there Palais de Tokyo in Paris – but also artists (like Pedro Reyes) and hybrid outfits such as the Turner Prize-nominated collective Assemble.
  • (17) Several cell types display binding sites for [125I]urokinase (Vassalli, J.-D., D. Baccino, D. Belin.

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