What's the difference between memoranda and memorandum?

Memoranda


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Memorandum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The onerous terms of the deeply unpopular “memoranda”, agreed with foreign lenders to keep insolvent Greece afloat, would be overturned.
  • (2) A grand and sombre staircase - dark, looming, pitiless - leads up from the Axes to the exhibits, allowing Libeskind to play one last trick on the visitor by luring him up a final flight that goes nowhere, before his voice gives way to the memoranda of Jewish history.
  • (3) Lines of communication were established with the six attending physicians by means of work rounds, telephone calls, and both official and unofficial memoranda.
  • (4) He said the newly discovered memoranda showed that US officials could have saved his life.
  • (5) Then he reads an article about wartime mass murders of Serbs, Bosnians and Jews by Croatian thugs, backed by the Nazis, one of whom was a young clerk who was given an award by the king of Croatia for preparing memoranda on "the necessary resettlements".
  • (6) There was one free delay condition and two conditions with interference from visual material of either similar or quite dissimilar patterns to that of memoranda.
  • (7) In that period, Steele produced 16 memoranda citing mostly Russian sources as describing a web of alleged contacts and collusion between Trump aides and Russian intelligence or other Kremlin representatives.
  • (8) Following the vote, Syriza’s leader, Alexis Tsipras, said the country had experienced “a historic day”, adding: “In a few days the Samaras government, which pillaged the country, will belong to the past, as will the memoranda of austerity.” Athens’s 300-seat house voted by 168-132 in favour of Dimas, the sole candidate for the post of president – falling short of the 180 votes required for his installation.
  • (9) It will conduct roundtables and ministerial visits to developing countries with business representatives and create special contact points, "strategic relationship review meetings", and memoranda of co-operation with priority companies, it said.
  • (10) "But in some areas Congress has been more progressive, having recently demanded legal memoranda that claim to authorize the illegal killing programme."
  • (11) A 17-page statement from the regulator gave graphic detail based on internal memoranda regarding how executives were aware of the problems they faced at least four years before.
  • (12) Both patient groups were similarly affected by the degree of relatedness between the distractor and the memoranda.
  • (13) Mr Blair hopes the memoranda will overcome British court objections that deportations to such countries breach the European Convention on Human Rights, since they would make them liable to torture or degrading treatment.
  • (14) The Korsakoff patients' verbal retention, however, became increasingly impaired, relative to the controls, as the level of similarity between the distraction and the memoranda increased.
  • (15) These results suggest that Korsakoff patients have difficulty performing verbal analyses which incorporated the distinctive physical, phonemic and semantic features of the memoranda into the development of their verbal memory traces.
  • (16) US justice department legal memoranda released this week by Barack Obama show top attorneys in the justice department approved nudity and the deprivation of sleep and food as interrogation techniques.
  • (17) Some stunned congressional Republicans were forced out of their usual passive support for the president, with Jason Chaffetz, the chairman of the oversight and government reform committee, formally asking the FBI to turn over to the committee all “memoranda, notes, summaries and recordings referring or related to any communications between Comey and the president”.
  • (18) An educational program for health care workers, including physicians, was initiated in July 1985 by issuing a series of government memoranda and distributing pamphlets and posters.
  • (19) At Krass’s confirmation hearing in December, Udall publicly disclosed the existence of a document that has proved to be crucial to the committee’s fight with the CIA: a document the committee calls the “internal Panetta Rreview,” prepared for former CIA director Leon Panetta and listing internal memoranda and other materials the agency provided to the committee’s inquiry.
  • (20) Deportations of extremist clerics will start after finalising memoranda of understandings with as many as 10 countries including Jordan, Algeria and Lebanon to try to ensure anyone deported there would not be subject to torture.

Memorandum


Definition:

  • (n.) A record of something which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory.
  • (n.) A brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
  • (2) She was presented with a memorandum, rated “top secret and strictly personal”, by Charles Powell, her foreign affairs adviser.
  • (3) This Memorandum discusses the problems and techniques involved in the detection of carriers of haemophilia A (blood coagulation factor VIII deficiency) and haemophilia B (factor IX deficiency), particularly with a view to its application to genetic counselling.
  • (4) Each trial was initiated by a brief alerting diffuse flash preceding presentation of the memorandum (sample); the latter was a lighted circle (red or green, 1.5 s) to be retained by the animal during a subsequent delay for correct behavioral response (color match).
  • (5) In an open letter to the college Fran Fuller, chair of BASW, says that the plans were a surprise, as the organisations have a memorandum of understanding in place and have spent "many weeks" positively discussing the college's development.
  • (6) The leaked memorandum makes clear that the target of the heightened surveillance efforts are the delegations from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea and Pakistan at the UN headquarters in New York - the so-called 'Middle Six' delegations whose votes are being fought over by the pro-war party, led by the US and Britain, and the party arguing for more time for UN inspections, led by France, China and Russia.
  • (7) Europe must save Greece to save itself | Timothy Garton Ash Read more Moreover, the government has failed to articulate a concrete, progressive, forward-looking reform agenda, and move beyond its populist talking points to aggressively embrace the urgently needed structural reforms, many of which are outlined in the memorandum.
  • (8) The firm, i4Health, lobbied the new Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) in July 2013 for a memorandum of understanding to "ensure that requests [for patient data] from life sciences receive prompt attention", an examination of the stakeholder forums of HSCIC shows.
  • (9) Or the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Netherlands and Mexico pledging to work together on flood risk management .
  • (10) He said there was no sign of an economic turnaround and Italy should sign a memorandum of understanding with the EU on structural reforms to get lower borrowing costs.
  • (11) Tony Abbott signed memorandums of understanding with all state premiers and territory chief ministers at Friday’s Council of Australian Governments (Coag) meeting.
  • (12) Yet Caroline Krass, a top lawyer in the office of legal counsel, whom Obama nominated to become the CIA’s chief attorney, told the panel on Tuesday that the Senate panel was n ot entitled to the memorandums , which she described as “pre-decisional” and therefore beyond Senate prerogative.
  • (13) This memorandum proposes a standardized system of reporting the histology of human lymph nodes based on commonly used simple staining techniques.
  • (14) It called for the bill to “be amended or, if not possible, the explanatory memorandum of the bill be clarified, to confirm that the commonwealth director of public prosecution must take into account the public interest, including the public interest in publication, before initiating a prosecution”.
  • (15) This memorandum reviews recent developments in viral immunopathology, with special reference to animal model systems, and indicates the possible relevance of the new concepts and techniques for certain diseases of man.
  • (16) In a memorandum of understanding setting up this project, user requirements were to be defined for the hardware and software used for data acquisition, processing and presentation.
  • (17) But aides insist that while the party's tone may have changed – a byproduct of being forced to grow up abruptly – its overarching objective remains the same: abolition of the memorandum outlining the terms of Athens's bailout and renegotiation of the loan agreement it has signed with its partners.
  • (18) It sounds terribly woolly, and it is – the report is full of "principles of stewardship", memorandums of understanding and statements of best practice.
  • (19) "It is food that is aimed for the thousands of Greek families blighted by the genocidal policies of the memorandum," said the party, referring to the loan agreement Athens has signed with international creditors to keep the debt-crippled country afloat.
  • (20) In other conditions placed on the new memorandum of understanding, Israel would no longer be allowed to spend over a quarter of the military aid on home-produced weaponry, and would instead be required the full amount on US arms.

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