What's the difference between hunting and wastage?

Hunting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hunt
  • (n.) The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

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) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (3) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
  • (4) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
  • (5) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
  • (6) Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said people would see through her attempts to distance herself from Gove.
  • (7) A spokesman for Hunt told Guardian Australia: "We have been deeply respectful of the process and will continue to be so."
  • (8) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
  • (9) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
  • (10) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
  • (11) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
  • (12) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
  • (13) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (14) A further 19 hospitals are to be investigated over their links to allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile , the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has said.
  • (15) It will be only a matter of time before the body-count begins.” Jeremy Hunt says five-day doctors' strike will be 'worst in NHS history' Read more The BMA says it will call off the strikes if the government abandons imposing a tougher new contract in October, but the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt , was in a no-turning-back mood on the BBC’s Today programme this morning.
  • (16) Hunt, however, responded to the move on Sunday morning by describing it as opportunism.
  • (17) 31 October TB met the Prince of Wales after he took Prince William hunting.
  • (18) When Jeremy Hunt says the NHS is coping, he needs to really look at what is happening.
  • (19) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
  • (20) He calmly and politely volunteered: “Sir, I have to tell you I do have a firearm on me.” Police hunt and kill black people like Philando Castile.

Wastage


Definition:

  • (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reduction of wastage throughout the life-cycle is now being attempted.
  • (2) By contrast the perinatal wastage was only 7 per 1,000 births in babies born weighing more than 1,500g and this included lethal congenital malformations.
  • (3) These three factors indicate increased bicarbonate wastage from the kidneys.
  • (4) and involuntary fetal wastage, HLA-A, B compatibility between husband and wife was studied in a group of 77 couples with known obstetric histories.
  • (5) No increase in fetal wastage, congenital abnormalities or complicated pregnancies was noted, suggesting that these drugs do not damage human oocytes in the doses and time periods used.
  • (6) Estimate of wastage in all eighty-two families was 3.8%, and consumption of food by visitors accounted for 3.0% of purchases.
  • (7) However, beyond this the risk of pregnancy wastage increases with age.
  • (8) We conclude that some patients with unexplained infertility and pregnancy wastage suffer from polyclonal B cell activation.
  • (9) Current knowledge supports the view that nonviral organisms may be responsible for repeated pregnancy wastage through chronic or recurrent occupancy in the maternal reproductive tract.
  • (10) A chronic disease also occurs and this can be protracted with progressive wastage and diarrhoea.
  • (11) Gross underfunding with financial wastage, poor non-clinical and specialist advice, and top-heavy management need to be urgently reviewed.
  • (12) There is virtually no data to support that HBV, HSV and HPV significantly contribute to transmitted intra-uterine disease leading to pregnancy wastage.
  • (13) A study has been done to assess the extent to which toxoplasma was responsible for fetal wastage.
  • (14) To reduce wastage of insecticide, nozzle tips are changed periodically but the tips are expensive and the replacement schedule should be based on the cost of the tip in relation to the cost of the insecticide wasted.
  • (15) Abnormal luteal function causes failure of implantation and embryonic wastage.
  • (16) The available data suggest that different patterns of infertility and pregnancy wastage, and different etiological agents and processes, contribute to the problem of infertility in the different areas.
  • (17) In the present study, possible statistics on reproductive wastages are collected and summarized, then comprehensive examinations on the causes of habitual abortion were performed on our registered patients.
  • (18) The findings from this survey have implications for Health Authorities in relation to costs and manpower planning, and emphasize the need to provide further education and prompt referral and treatment to prevent long-term back morbidity and wastage, not only for registered nurses but also for nursing auxiliaries and aides.
  • (19) These results suggest that G-banded chromosome analysis should be a useful tool in the initial evaluation of couples with recurrent fetal wastage, rather than being recommended only after extensive investigation of other factors is unrewarding.
  • (20) Pregnancy wastage was mainly due to preimplantation and early-postimplantation mortality.