What's the difference between helpful and ministrant?

Helpful


Definition:

  • (a.) Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (2) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (3) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (4) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
  • (5) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
  • (6) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
  • (7) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
  • (8) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
  • (9) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
  • (10) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
  • (11) The results may help to explain the diversity in the multidrug-resistant phenotype.
  • (12) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
  • (13) Cryopreserved autologous blood cells may thus restore some patients with CGL in transformation to chronic-phase disease and so may help to prolong life.
  • (14) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
  • (15) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
  • (16) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
  • (17) "Attempts to quantify existential risk inevitably involve a large helping of subjective judgment.
  • (18) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
  • (19) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (20) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.

Ministrant


Definition:

  • (a.) Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate.
  • (n.) One who ministers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In our modern age of computerization and laboratory-based medical care, cavernous sinus thrombosis demands the diagnostic skill of the clinician, whose prompt ministrations should usually yield a favourable result.
  • (2) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
  • (3) There are also groups that have spiritual health care modalities and ministrations.
  • (4) Photograph: Tristram Kenton I have soon to surrender him again beach-side to the camera’s ministrations – he does hate being forced into unease and lack of naturalism, whether mental or physical, and asks just half-jokily of our photographer, “Why do you hate me, Alex?
  • (5) Leonard once used the law of trespass to prevent 100 men and women accepting the ministration of a female priest ordained abroad.
  • (6) A false accusation can be made when an adult has persuaded a child that the sexual events actually occurred, when a child in the oedipal stage has misinterpreted caregiving ministrations, when a child's thought processes are confused by primary process material, or when a child is secondarily involved in the projective identifications of a dominant caregiver.
  • (7) Much of what you’re paying for at this level isn’t just what you’re putting down your neck, but service and ambience – the perfection of glittering glassware, exquisite presentation, the ministrations of the senior sommelier.
  • (8) It should also be realized that urticaria all too frequently "settles down" due as much to the natural course as to the careful ministrations of the physician.
  • (9) The attractiveness of oral rehydration therapy (ORT), a new and simple ministration that averts many child deaths from diarrhea among children, is diverting attention among donor agencies from the importance of water supply and sanitation (WS&S) in developing nations.
  • (10) The essential element of the comparison is to separate (partition) the effects of the prehospital ministrations from those of subsequent hospital care.
  • (11) What it would have done, though, is spared us the ministrations of the most dangerous political type, of which Duncan Smith is unquestionably one.
  • (12) According to the health ministr, 77 people were killed in 48 hours and nearly 600 wounded.
  • (13) A vast monolith whose gothic arches resemble a house of both worship and horror, the building seems tailor-made to combine the fortressed needs of a prison with the spiritual ministrations of a church - a unique blend of punishment and salvation.
  • (14) We note nevertheless a nursing style that includes physical proximity, touch, ministrations, and accompaniment over time through the experiences that threaten clients' assurance and challenge their resources.
  • (15) Cycloleucinead ministration (a synthetic amino acid) to rats produces a selective hyperaminoaciduria bearing on dibasic amino acids (lysine, arginine, ornithine) and cystine.
  • (16) In consultation psychiatry, students are also taught that the object of their ministrations is not the patient, but all members of the ward milieu, a focus which is not characteristic of the biomedical tradition.
  • (17) Team building is based on the satisfaction of three areas of individual need: (a) ministration, which leads to mutual respect; (b) mastery or effective performance; and (c) maturation or personal growth and professional socialization.
  • (18) The resurgence of interest in the plight of the menopausal woman has stimulated an increasing number of competent investigators to attempt to solve the mysteries that until recently have been evaluated and treated by anecdote and homeopathic ministrations.
  • (19) Atos assessment doctors may be polite, but the basic ground for complaint is most likely to have to undergo their tender ministrations in the first place.
  • (20) A higher excretion of bile acids was found in the 8 overweight subjects (P less than 0.01) before ministration of fenfluramine.

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