What's the difference between looming and looting?
Looming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loom
(n.) The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage.
Example Sentences:
(1) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
(2) The initial impact was felt on the local currency market where a shortage of foreign exchange caused a looming crisis.
(3) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
(4) And few people say they are feeling much better off, or view the future with great optimism, as further cuts loom.
(5) In the longer term, a summer of crisis eurozone summits to discuss the fate of Greece looms.
(6) The New South Wales and South Australian premiers have joined forces to tell treasurer Scott Morrison that finding extra federal funding to head off a looming hospitals and schools funding “cliff” is a “non negotiable” condition of their support for increasing the GST.
(7) The impact of such reforms will be reflected in slower growth in both the short and long terms.” “But the biggest unknown, without question, is the looming trade war with the US.
(8) An investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority is looming.
(9) The first series of Jed Mercurio's Line of Duty on BBC2 missed out at awards time two years ago; expect it to loom large next year.
(10) Updated at 11.27am BST 11.18am BST Another reminder that the debt ceiling is looming: James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) Washington fell off the government shutdown cliff ... and there is not another cliff to break its fall until Oct. 17 - Wash. Research Group October 1, 2013 11.16am BST How much will the shutdown cost?
(11) Hammond’s budget measures promised to stave off the looming crisis for Southwold – at least temporarily.
(12) But the talks risk being overshadowed by the looming Greek crisis.
(13) It charts a path ahead for the NHS that will largely hold good, whatever the outcome of the looming general election.
(14) 4 October 2009: George Papandreou becomes prime minister Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) party wins power after New Democracy calls a snap general election, asking the Greek people for a new mandate to tackle the looming financial crisis.
(15) In an economy still struggling with high joblessness and the threat of renewed recession still looming, convincing some of the party's stressed base might not be easy.
(16) Extra supplies are also looming from the US, where stockpiles are growing as extra drilling rigs are put into operation.
(17) Abbott said the government “wanted to ensure we have all the tools we need” to address a looming terrorist threat and that the democratic process of getting the changes through parliament would be “the most important safeguard” to ensure the legal rights of the innocent were protected.
(18) Maybe it will do him good to go away with England.” Such is the cyclical life of goalscorers, there are times when those fractions that can be the difference between a ball ending up nestled in the net, or agonisingly wide, or foiled by a goalkeeper that probably seems 10 feet tall, loom large.
(19) Next week's meeting of the Fed's monetary policy committee is already looming over markets -- after last Friday's Non-Farm Payroll showed more new US jobs created in November than expected.
(20) On Wednesday the protests were large but a lot calmer At the intersection of North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore a small group of protesters congregated as the curfew loomed but gradually departed, leaving empty streets.
Looting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loot
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(2) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
(3) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(4) This might be because they have not been paid and are motivated by a desire to loot, as well as to settle old and new scores with the opposing force.
(5) We want the painting back, with the admission that it was looted art,” he said.
(6) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(7) The primary need of the people is not western-style educational patronage, but an end to the arms trade and multinational looting of resources.
(8) Neither do we accept the owner could not have known it was looted.
(9) They just hear bullets and are on the loose running anywhere, looting, raping and doing anything.
(10) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
(11) They were looting, not shoplifting, and challenging the police for control of the streets, not stealing [policemen’s] hubcaps.
(12) And while large stores were targeted, some smaller shops had not escaped the looting.
(13) Parts of the town have been burnt, our facilities were completely looted, but people are coming back and are not afraid any more.
(14) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
(15) On Wednesday the town of Mubi, home to Adamawa State University, was overrun by Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian soldiers fled, leaving its barracks to be looted of weapons.
(16) Photograph: Dr Oetker “This is an outstanding example of a private company doing the right thing with regards to Nazi-looted art and sets a standard of best practice in this field,” he said.
(17) Belgium was arguably the cruellest of all colonisers, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko looted the nation's wealth for 32 years, then a civil war sparked by genocide in neighbouring Rwanda left more than 4 million people dead and brought about the biggest peacekeeping operation in UN history.
(18) The judge said – in a written ruling – that the Sony distribution warehouse had been destroyed and looted shortly before midnight on 8 August 2011 during "the widespread civil disorder and rioting which took place in London and elsewhere" after a man was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London.
(19) The looted art trove may help to shed light on one of the more obscure chapters in Nazi Germany's history.
(20) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.