What's the difference between marshal and sheriff?

Marshal


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.
  • (n.) An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like
  • (n.) One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.
  • (n.) One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.
  • (n.) The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists.
  • (n.) The highest military officer.
  • (n.) A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city.
  • (v. t.) To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army.
  • (v. t.) To direct, guide, or lead.
  • (v. t.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) [Naylor, S.L., Marshall, A., Hensel, C., Martinez, P.F., Holley, B.
  • (2) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
  • (3) The news comes one week after Marshall announced, in an email to staff, that there would be a shift in research priorities, away from understanding the nature of climate change, and towards adaptation and mitigation.
  • (4) The architects, whose initials stand for Robert Matthew Johnson ­Marshall, said Goodwin had been hired for his international experience.
  • (5) The carbohydrate structures of the glycopeptides and relative affinities of TBG, glycopeptides and oligosaccharides for hepatocyte plasma membrane binding are presented in the accompanying paper (Zinn, A.B., Marshall, J.S., and Carlson, D.M.
  • (6) In the 1970s, Marco Panella’s Radical party was influential in marshalling opposition to the “partitocracy” dominated by the then Christian Democrats and in championing civil rights on issues such as divorce and abortion.
  • (7) It is a small return for a six-month investigation that involved the US justice department, the financial regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission, Picard's office and the US marshals.
  • (8) The amount pumped into the Greek economy so far amounted to 1.5 times the GDP of Greece, she said, while the post-world war two Marshall plan had amounted to just 3% of European GDP.
  • (9) Richard Murphy, a former director of field operations for the Tories, has been seconded, and is hiring a dozen regional directors to marshall grassroots support.
  • (10) These values are discussed with reference to Hammett's and Marshall's equations and a general equation that predicts these equilibrium constants in the media under discussion has been formulated.
  • (11) Urine samples were spotted directly on the plate; lorapride was determined after spraying the plate with the Bratton-Marshall reagent, and measurements were carried out in the simultaneous reflectance and transmittance mode (540 nm).
  • (12) Although the two cDNAs encode Na channels with substantially different activation properties (Auld, V. J., A. L. Goldin, D. S. Krafte, J. Marshall, J. M. Dunn, W. A. Catterall, H. A. Lester, N. Davidson, and R. J. Dunn.
  • (13) This is not quite the “global village” of Marshall McLuhan’s imagination: “These new media of ours,” he said in 1964 , “have made our world into a single unit.
  • (14) We may be in the world’s last hour in which our planet can be saved,” Tony de Brum, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, told the meeting.
  • (15) The idea excited both Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, but was crushed by Marshal Philippe Pétain , who described the plan as a “marriage to a corpse”, since France was about to surrender.
  • (16) Safety plans – talking to people about how they would take their life and discussing how they might stop themselves – and a “safe from suicide” emergency team to marshal resources for those thought at immediate risk are among initiatives.
  • (17) Marshall refuted claims CSIRO was moving away from public good scientific research , labelling it disturbing and untrue.
  • (18) But he’s nothing if not a believer in facts, and so he marshaled enough evidence to persuade his father that the $930m sale to Monsanto was not just good for his business, but good for the planet.
  • (19) The Brazilian accepted the invitation to beat Marshall with a trademark shot from 25 yards and the home team continued to coast towards a fourth consecutive victory.
  • (20) The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare Read more “There are still corals bleaching,” Marshall said.

Sheriff


Definition:

  • (n.) The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An investigation into the shooting by the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s office has been completed and handed to the office of McGinty, the county prosecutor.
  • (2) Methamphetamine abuse is increasing and methamphetamine is second only to alcohol as a positive finding in cases submitted to the San Diego Sheriff's Crime Laboratory.
  • (3) Tim Casey, Arpaio's attorney, said the position of the Sheriff's Office "is that it has never used race and will never use race in its law-enforcement decisions."
  • (4) Sheriff Parnell McNamara of McLennan County will help lead the criminal investigation.
  • (5) The local sheriff wanted to bury the body as soon as possible in Mississippi.
  • (6) Around 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff’s offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.
  • (7) The local sheriff, FBI and other law enforcement officials have so far held back from confronting the militia, who are heavily armed and have lookouts on a watchtower.
  • (8) They walked past multiple sheriff’s deputies on the way out to their trucks.
  • (9) Douglas county sheriff John Hanlin said during the press conference that officials were still working to notify victims next-of-kin and said the medical examiner’s office was expected to release their names and brief biographies Friday afternoon.
  • (10) After finding him guilty of all 23 charges of assault and one of breach of the peace, Sheriff Kathrine Mackie said his claims of self-defence, provocation and a conspiracy by his ex-wives were "not credible".
  • (11) John Howard delighted in his role as George W Bush’s “deputy sheriff”, while Kevin Rudd’s Cheshire cat smile was never widest than when beaming at Barack Obama.
  • (12) There’s a new sheriff in town.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Blasts from the past.
  • (13) Dan Houston, the sheriff of Bernalillo County, admits he had never heard of White's character, or Cranston, the actor who won multiple Emmy awards for the role, when he was first approached to provide a funeral escort.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palm Beach county sheriff officers with in riot gear keep protesters against Donald Trump away from the entrance to the president’s Mar-a-Lago resor.
  • (15) All I could think of were the families once living in these homes and the day the banks and sheriff put them on the street.
  • (16) The Texas car chase started when a sheriff's deputy in Montague County tried to pull over the Cadillac around 11 a.m. local time Thursday, authorities there said.
  • (17) Photograph: Multnomah County sheriff's office Geoffrey Stanek was one of the last of the 25 to be arrested.
  • (18) #ocetisakowincamp #nodapl A photo posted by Colin McCarthy (@colinnnnn) on Nov 12, 2016 at 10:34am PST The man, identified as Richard Leingang by the Morton County sheriff’s office, was driving on County Road 82 when he was “stopped and accosted by protesters”, said Maxine Herr, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.
  • (19) Sheriff Bannerman, who calls for Johnny's help, reappears in Cujo and in Different Seasons' The Body .
  • (20) The Morton County sheriff’s office said it took action to “enforce the law and evict” the “illegal camp” after people refused to leave.