What's the difference between intrusion and rampart?

Intrusion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.
  • (n.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.
  • (n.) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.
  • (n.) The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that the procedure used in this study is a non-intrusive intervention that is an extension of the current literature pertaining to sensory extinction.
  • (2) Although the debate in the US has led to some piecemeal reforms – including the USA Freedom Act and modest policy changes – many of the most intrusive government surveillance programs remain largely intact.
  • (3) Depressive symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were hypothesized to derive from illness intrusiveness--illness-induced lifestyle disruptions.
  • (4) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
  • (5) Now US officials, who have spoken to Reuters on condition of anonymity, say the roundabout way the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion originated in China , possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy service.
  • (6) It is argued that for Resistance veterans only the intrusive reminiscences of the stressful events discriminate this constellation of symptoms from subjects with an anxious-depressive symptomatology.
  • (7) A less intrusive way to make a city smarter might be to give those who govern it a way to try out their decisions in virtual reality before inflicting them on live humans.
  • (8) Simulated territorial intrusion promoted increased plasma levels of both T and 11KT while access to vacant territories without neighboring territorial males did not.
  • (9) This paper challenges the present policy on two grounds: consent from adults who donate kidneys is generally not informed, and therefore it is inconsistent to use the consent requirement as a justification for excluding children; and renal donation by adults can be seen as a procedure done for the benefit of the donor (as well as the recipient), and the appropriate rules for using children as donors should therefore be those pertaining to beneficial intrusions on nonconsenting subjects.
  • (10) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
  • (11) Expansion of the sensory area is apparently the result of size increase in sensory bulbs and by intrusion of supportive cells between sensory bulbs.
  • (12) The investigator administered the Territorial Intrusion-Personal Space (TIPS) Scale questionnaire to measure various feelings in response to intrusions.
  • (13) Civil libertarians have long expressed alarm that the only judicial body charged with protecting Americans from undue, intrusive federal surveillance so frequently endorses the government's requests.
  • (14) Flashback patients reported more frequent intrusive items on average and, specifically, more frequent daytime mental imagery.
  • (15) The purpose of the study was to investigate whether root resorption of the upper incisors occurs during intrusion of maxillary incisors.
  • (16) Intrusive tooth mobility was recorded on anterior teeth in four adult male animals by linear variable-differential transformers.
  • (17) The commission's move would grant Brussels intrusive rights over national authorities in licensing practices and scrutiny of member states' monitoring of the companies.
  • (18) But the system still relies on a high degree of intrusiveness and communal pressure to achieve targets.
  • (19) Heaviest intrusion emerged within the physical life sphere and the behavioural and activity domain, followed by the impact on global life satisfaction and habits.
  • (20) 29 min: There have been so many offside decisions in this game, the referee's whistle is currently more aurally intrusive than the vuvuzelas.

Rampart


Definition:

  • (n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.
  • (n.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.
  • (v. t.) To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We bartered for almonds and olives in the market, where there wasn't another tourist to be seen, and sat on the ramparts, watching the sun fall away beyond the horizon.
  • (2) The turbine housings, which are half-complete, resemble the jagged ramparts of a fort.
  • (3) How Google's antitrust headache began not from castle ramparts Read more An investigation by the Guardian into Google’s multifaceted lobbying campaign in Europe has uncovered fresh details of its activities and methods.
  • (4) The find is a few miles from Bredon hill, which has been a scene of human activity down the ages and still boasts the earthen ramparts of an iron age hill fort.
  • (5) Here, Main, Sidney Bracken, 65, Paul Radley, 52, and David Robinson, 63, are cooking an outdoor breakfast, after hanging a huge banner around the ramparts of the fort.
  • (6) There have been many initiatives, reports and government level strategies in recent years but few, perhaps none, have hammered at the ramparts of care for learning disabled adults with the force of BBC's Panorama expose Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed .
  • (7) Analysis of the errors showed that one of the focal problems of the Gilbert-McKern system was the difficulty in judging whether the ventral rampart was building up or breaking down.
  • (8) They have gone, instead, for the candidate who seems best placed to appeal beyond the Republican ramparts, to swing voters and independents, just as they did in 2008 by choosing John McCain.
  • (9) The ridged area, where sweat ducts are distributed, is constructed of grooves and ramparts.
  • (10) O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming” – what does it mean?
  • (11) Things soon get serious with a tough climb onto Shoulsbarrow Common, beneath the ramparts of an iron-age hill fort.
  • (12) Voters, buffeted by unemployment, dismayed by immigration, scared of terrorism, and angry at growing inequality, crave the alleged certainties of a past where the strong nation state was a rampart for its citizens.
  • (13) Adults £85 per day, children (aged 13-17) £60 per day, overnight kayak camping expeditions an additional £15 per person per night Eilean Donan, Dornie Photograph: Alamy Clamber around the ramparts and explore the dimly lit nooks and crannies of one of the most romantic castles in Scotland.
  • (14) 2 Go through the gate on the right and follow the surfaced path through the ancient ramparts of the hill fort to the summit trig point.
  • (15) "They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.
  • (16) They have also used their nine-month siege of the north to dig in, creating elaborate defences, including tunnels and ramparts using construction equipment abandoned by fleeing construction crews.
  • (17) By the break of dawn the citadel's ramparts had been draped with banners proclaiming: "Peoples of Europe rise up."
  • (18) Offshore, a recognisably Viking kingdom boasts a fleet of longships; Westeros itself, like dark ages England, was once a heptarchy, a realm of seven kingdoms; the massive rampart of ice which guards its northernmost frontier is recognisably inspired by Hadrian's wall.
  • (19) But his passion for conservation isn’t confined to the 80 acres of streets and historic buildings within the fort’s Dutch-built ramparts.
  • (20) On this larger project, a stronger more robust New Orleans, the progress that you have made is remarkable.” Leo Watermeier, a longtime resident of North Rampart Street in the French Quarter and community activist, told the Guardian in an email that “I agree we’re moving forward.” “The influx of new people after Katrina has brought a new energy, that’s both pushing for needed changes and respectful of our traditions,” Watermeier said.