What's the difference between ministration and ministry?

Ministration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of ministering; service; ministry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In our modern age of computerization and laboratory-based medical care, cavernous sinus thrombosis demands the diagnostic skill of the clinician, whose prompt ministrations should usually yield a favourable result.
  • (2) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
  • (3) There are also groups that have spiritual health care modalities and ministrations.
  • (4) Photograph: Tristram Kenton I have soon to surrender him again beach-side to the camera’s ministrations – he does hate being forced into unease and lack of naturalism, whether mental or physical, and asks just half-jokily of our photographer, “Why do you hate me, Alex?
  • (5) Leonard once used the law of trespass to prevent 100 men and women accepting the ministration of a female priest ordained abroad.
  • (6) A false accusation can be made when an adult has persuaded a child that the sexual events actually occurred, when a child in the oedipal stage has misinterpreted caregiving ministrations, when a child's thought processes are confused by primary process material, or when a child is secondarily involved in the projective identifications of a dominant caregiver.
  • (7) Much of what you’re paying for at this level isn’t just what you’re putting down your neck, but service and ambience – the perfection of glittering glassware, exquisite presentation, the ministrations of the senior sommelier.
  • (8) It should also be realized that urticaria all too frequently "settles down" due as much to the natural course as to the careful ministrations of the physician.
  • (9) The attractiveness of oral rehydration therapy (ORT), a new and simple ministration that averts many child deaths from diarrhea among children, is diverting attention among donor agencies from the importance of water supply and sanitation (WS&S) in developing nations.
  • (10) The essential element of the comparison is to separate (partition) the effects of the prehospital ministrations from those of subsequent hospital care.
  • (11) What it would have done, though, is spared us the ministrations of the most dangerous political type, of which Duncan Smith is unquestionably one.
  • (12) According to the health ministr, 77 people were killed in 48 hours and nearly 600 wounded.
  • (13) A vast monolith whose gothic arches resemble a house of both worship and horror, the building seems tailor-made to combine the fortressed needs of a prison with the spiritual ministrations of a church - a unique blend of punishment and salvation.
  • (14) We note nevertheless a nursing style that includes physical proximity, touch, ministrations, and accompaniment over time through the experiences that threaten clients' assurance and challenge their resources.
  • (15) Cycloleucinead ministration (a synthetic amino acid) to rats produces a selective hyperaminoaciduria bearing on dibasic amino acids (lysine, arginine, ornithine) and cystine.
  • (16) In consultation psychiatry, students are also taught that the object of their ministrations is not the patient, but all members of the ward milieu, a focus which is not characteristic of the biomedical tradition.
  • (17) Team building is based on the satisfaction of three areas of individual need: (a) ministration, which leads to mutual respect; (b) mastery or effective performance; and (c) maturation or personal growth and professional socialization.
  • (18) The resurgence of interest in the plight of the menopausal woman has stimulated an increasing number of competent investigators to attempt to solve the mysteries that until recently have been evaluated and treated by anecdote and homeopathic ministrations.
  • (19) Atos assessment doctors may be polite, but the basic ground for complaint is most likely to have to undergo their tender ministrations in the first place.
  • (20) A higher excretion of bile acids was found in the 8 overweight subjects (P less than 0.01) before ministration of fenfluramine.

Ministry


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of ministering; ministration; service.
  • (n.) Agency; instrumentality.
  • (n.) The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.
  • (n.) The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.
  • (n.) Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (2) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
  • (3) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (4) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
  • (5) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
  • (6) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
  • (7) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
  • (8) The industry wants the health ministry to bring in a new pricing system so that Greece uses a basket of eurozone countries to calculate prices.
  • (9) In consequence of the findings the Netherlands Ministry for Housing, Physical Planning and Environment appropriated money to cleanup contaminated gardens.
  • (10) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
  • (11) Not only was an alarming amount of fissile material going missing at the company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec), but it had been visited by a veritable who's-who of Israeli intelligence, including Rafael Eitan, described by the firm as an Israeli defence ministry "chemist", but, in fact, a top Mossad operative who went on to head Lakam.
  • (12) On Sunday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice confirmed a serious further offence review would take place to see if lessons can be learned from the case.
  • (13) They also point to her involvement, between 1999 and 2005, with Computer Associates-Jinchen, a joint venture between an American tech company and a Chinese firm in which China’s ministry of public security reportedly held a 20% stake.
  • (14) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
  • (15) Japan's trade and industrial ministry warned on Wednesday that Google must follow Japan's privacy law in implementing its new approach, and that Google needed to provide explanations to address users' concerns.
  • (16) The decision will mean the Ministry of Justice has to find as much as £100m in extra savings over four years from elsewhere in its budget.
  • (17) Israeli television reported that Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, was being briefed on the search and had convened an emergency security cabinet session with his senior defence chiefs at the defence ministry compound in Tel Aviv.
  • (18) The Ministry of Defence has said it is “planning for a seamless transition of assets”.
  • (19) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
  • (20) That is the problem with those who refuse to accept women’s ministry as priests and bishops.

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