What's the difference between guru and pastor?

Guru


Definition:

  • (n.) A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
  • (2) Senior figures including Lord Prescott, the former deputy prime minister; Lord Glasman, a policy guru; David Blunkett, a former home secretary; andDarling, a former chancellor, have signalled they would like to see Labour setting out its message more clearly.
  • (3) But it was his Olympics win – Freud Communications was appointed as the lead agency in promoting the 2012 games – that prompts the PR guru's rise up this year's MediaGuardian 100.
  • (4) But his intervention comes at a sensitive time for Ed Miliband , who was accused yesterday by his intellectual guru Lord Glasman of lacking a strategy, as members of the shadow cabinet express concern about the party's apparent lack of credibility on the economy.
  • (5) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
  • (6) And religious guru Asaram Bapu suggested that the victim was not blameless, asking provocatively: "Can one hand clap?"
  • (7) The message from the now retired guru of the financial markets was that the speculators would have a field day.
  • (8) In an interview with Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, investment guru and chief of the Berkshire Hathaway investment company, said: "In terms of the loss from a transaction of that size, my guess is they pretty well worked out of it by now.
  • (9) The man behind the hamster story was the British publicist Max Clifford, the disgraced PR guru who was convicted in May of eight counts of indecent assaults on four women.
  • (10) The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party, a memoir and political manual first published by Labour's focus group guru, Philip Gould, in 1998, is a book many Cameroons know well.
  • (11) The included Vladimir Bukovsky, a Soviet dissident who lives in Cambridge, whom Marina Litvinenko described as her husband’s “guru”.
  • (12) Going under the name Michael Green and casting himself as an internet marketing guru, Shapps in 2007 claimed audiences could "make $20,000 in 20 days guaranteed or your money back" – if they spent $200 buying his bespoke software.
  • (13) The PR guru Max Clifford said he had been approached by dozens of celebrities from the 60s and 70s who are "frightened to death" that they will be implicated in the Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal.
  • (14) Duddy promised to preserve the quality of the retailer, which was started in the 1960s by design guru Sir Terence Conran as an antidote to the austere furniture of postwar Britain.
  • (15) Suneel Singh, a guru in south Delhi, agreed that yoga did not belong to any one religion: “Is t’ai chi just Chinese?
  • (16) The remarks by Flight, an outspoken figure popular in Tory circles, echo an infamous warning 36 years ago by the late Sir Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher's intellectual guru.
  • (17) When I interviewed gourmet coffee guru Gwilym Davies three years ago, shortly before he took the World Barista Championship crown in the US, he told me that we were in the third wave of coffee.
  • (18) Echoing Alan Greenspan, his guru and former chairman of the Federal Reserve, he added: "The very financial instruments that were designed to diversify risk across the banking system instead spread contagion across the globe.
  • (19) She did ecstasy for the first time with, among others, psychedelic guru Timothy Leary.
  • (20) Shapps, in his guise as the multi-millionaire web guru in charge of the internet marketing company How To Corp, invited three internet entrepreneurs – Harvey Segal, Mani Sivasubramanian and Martin Avis – to Westminster in 2006 for the tour and an evening meal.

Pastor


Definition:

  • (n.) A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.
  • (n.) A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.
  • (n.) A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
  • (2) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (3) The evangelical pastor knew he faced an almighty task.
  • (4) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
  • (5) Pastoral nomadism is a way of life in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
  • (6) Then Angela Merkel , daughter of an East German Protestant pastor, became Germany's first female chancellor on 22 November 2005.
  • (7) There was no acknowledgement in the agreement of the “deep pain these decisions will cause, nor any concern for the pastoral care of [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex] Christians,” she said.
  • (8) "No one ever bothered him at the suppers," former pastor Bob Moyer of Hartland told the paper.
  • (9) Merkel, whose father was a pastor in communist Eastern Germany , has suddenly discovered a deep affection for the downtrodden people of Greece.
  • (10) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
  • (11) There was another accident on the first lap when Pastor Maldonado’s Lotus got squeezed into the barriers following a minor collision between the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen.
  • (12) How much time should be spent on reviewing progress and achieving standards, compared to pastoral care?
  • (13) Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose daughter and niece are among the kidnapped, told Agence France-Presse “Chibok was taken by Boko Haram.
  • (14) Discussion of the patient's condition, technicalities, and judicial consequences with the next of kin, attendants, a pastor, and another physician is a necessary prelude.
  • (15) I think it’s okay as a Catholic to get my guidance as a Catholic from the Pope but certainly not economic policy or environmental policy.” Trump has previously questioned the faith of another adversary, Ted Cruz, saying: “You gotta remember, in all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, OK?” Cruz’s father is an evangelical pastor who emigrated from Cuba, and the senator has pursued extremely religious voters throughout his campaign.
  • (16) These plans are a far cry from the desires of Atlah’s Rev David Manning, who became pastor of the church in 1981.
  • (17) Over the weekend, Nehemiah Fischer, a 35-year-old pastor, was shot dead by an Oklahoma state trooper after getting into a fight when told to evacuate his truck in rising flood waters south of Tulsa.
  • (18) The son of a Congolese pastor, he trained as a gynaecologist and went on to treat thousands of women gang-raped during the DRC conflict , becoming a world expert in repairing vaginas.
  • (19) Pastoral systems must focus on effective management of grazing pressure of the rangelands.
  • (20) "I acknowledge that Superman sermon notes are definitely not for every pastor or church setting.

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