What's the difference between hardship and wardship?
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.
Wardship
Definition:
(n.) The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.
(n.) The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage.
Example Sentences:
(1) This meant that the wardship powers of the court had expired and the court had to decide if parens patriae could be invoked.
(2) Formally ending wardship proceedings, the judge, Mr Justice Baker, said it was now up to Ashya's parents to decide which of the treatments on offer he should receive – conventional radio therapy from a hospital in Southampton or the proton therapy available in the Czech Republic .
(3) While English law maintains that any wardship status would be incompatible with the rights and welfare of the mother, a Canadian court has granted temporary custody of an unborn child to the Children's Aid Society and had its mother involuntarily committed to the hospital, raising questions of how substantial a risk to the fetus necessitates invasive procedures and what rights a pregnant woman should retain to control her own lifestyle.
(4) In England the House of Lords looked at Re Eve as a misapplication of parens patriae and further wrote that in the context of the court's wardship the distinction between therapeutic and non-therapeutic sterilization was irrelevant.
(5) This case is seen as confirming the British principle that, apart from wardship proceedings, physicians bear the traditional responsibility for deciding, along with the patient and family, when treatment should be withdrawn from the terminally ill.
(6) The point of law involved, according to the Solicitor, is whether it is an abuse of wardship jurisdiction to authorize the sterilization of a girl within two months of her 18th birthday when, if she were not mentally handicapped, the court would not act.