What's the difference between hardiness and hardship?

Hardiness


Definition:

  • (n.) Capability of endurance.
  • (n.) Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.
  • (n.) Hardship; fatigue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twenty drug-free patients (12 women and 8 men) meeting DSM-III criteria for major depressive disorder were given the Kobasa Hardiness Questionnaire, which contains subscales measuring feelings of powerlessness, security, and alientation.
  • (2) Hardy has a 10in tattoo of Lee along his left shin.
  • (3) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
  • (4) A heat source contained in a modified Hardy-Wolff-Goodell dolorimeter was used as a stimulus to produce pain on the posterolateral aspects of the left forearms of volunteer subjects.
  • (5) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
  • (6) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
  • (7) Most critical are (a) how hardiness is to be measured; (b) whether hardiness should be treated as a unitary phenomenon or as three separate phenomena associated with commitment, control, and challenge; and (c) whether hardiness has direct effects on health or indirect effects by virtue of buffering the impact of stressful life events.
  • (8) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
  • (9) The number of people in the group corresponded to the theoretical number of heterozygotes in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg equation, suggesting that sucrase deficiency is recessively inherited in a simple Mendelian fashion.
  • (10) The study findings did not support the buffering effects of hardiness in the presence of greater amounts of stress.
  • (11) Vegetation is low, widely spaced and hardy, most of it armed with spines.
  • (12) The favorable morphology and hardiness in organ culture of this preparation have permitted a wide range of electrophysiological, cellular, and molecular studies.
  • (13) Departures from the Hardy-Weinberg expectations, indicating an excess of heterokaryotypes, were noted and critically analysed by comparing samples obtained simultaneously in the same locality from different cow sheds, from different sections of the same cow shed and from night and day catches in the same cow shed.
  • (14) The distribution of the Blast-1 genotypes in the present study was concordant with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (p greater than 0.7), which indicates that the frequency of the Blast-1 gene in the population is derived from random mating in preceding generations.
  • (15) The observed frequency distribution of individuals with homozygous NOR-positive, heterozygous, and homozygous negative acrocentric chromosomes was in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg law in all five pairs of the acrocentric chromosomes as well as in total.
  • (16) Over 42% of the variance in family functioning was accounted for by family hardiness, functional support, family stressors, and parental age.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tom Hardy and George Miller at the press conference.
  • (18) Theoretical estimates were made of the chronological decrease in the incidence using a formula for Hardy-Weinberg expectation in a partially inbred population and applying appropriate consanguinity rates, taken from the literature, during the period from 1942 to 1983.
  • (19) An experiment is reported which tests Fazey & Hardy's (1988) catastrophe model of anxiety and performance.
  • (20) Another thing is that scientists like Sarah Hardy have been able to demonstrate a far greater richness of female flexibility in reproductive strategies.

Hardship


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
  • (2) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
  • (3) Actions achieved or a long commitment to an ideal, often through hardship.
  • (4) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
  • (5) We don't want to harm ourselves; we don't want suffering; we don't want hardship; we don't accept difficulty and disappointment.
  • (6) Woman at centre of South Korean row says she 'deserves death' Read more Presidential spokesman Jung Youn-kuk said: “The Blue House named Kim as the right person to lead the cabinet for the country’s future and to overcome current hardships.” Yim Jong-yong, the Financial Services Commission chairman, was named the new finance minister and deputy prime minister.
  • (7) He also thanked nearly everyone who had been involved in the trial: his attorneys, his family, everyone who testified “with dignity” about their “unbearable” hardships.
  • (8) There will be a hardship waiver for those individuals who still cannot afford coverage, and 95% of all small businesses, because of their size and narrow profit margin, would be exempt from these requirements.
  • (9) For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life.
  • (10) He was only four-years-old then, way too young to understand the hardships of life.
  • (11) But take back the initiative – because we've seen what happens when we let politicians take sole responsibility for how we organise our society: it's resulted in profound economic failure and material hardship.
  • (12) When combined with economic hardship, this loss makes the jobless more likely to suffer depression and even to take their own lives, as starkly shown by Sanjay Basu and David Stuckler in The Body Economic .
  • (13) The intimacy between community members and the doctor's own friendships with families, the distance to specialized services and the hardship travel might cause for patients, the economic risks in treating indigents in an already financially strapped small facility, and the physician's role as a citizen as well as health care provider are factors that cannot be ignored in treatment decisions.
  • (14) Already, 34 families have been given emergency hardship grants totalling more than £23,000, as the county offers them a lifeline.
  • (15) Is it hopelessly old fart-ish to hope exposure that to the horrors described by Buergenthal will remind all of us of the piffling nature of our next household conflagration about who gets to wear which pair of jeans, or whether homework on the weekend really constitutes a hardship – or even, somehow, temper the demand for new electronic equipment?
  • (16) Others argue that younger people are less used to dealing with hardship than their parents' generation and lack the resilience to cope with problems.
  • (17) I understood why our claims history had come back to bite us but still complained that, in these times of hardship, paying nearly £9 more each month was too much.
  • (18) Bellows is known for his powerful paintings representing the hardship and desperation and grittiness of life in New York as it emerged in to the 20th century.
  • (19) Despite years of violence, hardship and bitterly disputed votes, the hopeful mood suggested many feel change is finally within their grasp.
  • (20) Data on the economic status, number of rooms per household, number of persons per household, type of water supply, and mode of excreta disposal revealed that the majority of the population surveyed lived with economic hardship, overcrowding and poor hygiene.