What's the difference between mistreat and step?

Mistreat


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To treat amiss; to abuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
  • (2) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
  • (3) Seven (64%) had been misdiagnosed and mistreated as chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis etc.
  • (4) But Cleveland city hall released out a statement that read: "Media reports of multiple calls to the Cleveland police reporting suspicious activity and the mistreatment of women at 2207 Seymour are false."
  • (5) Her Majesty's government will co-operate fully with the police investigations into allegations made by former Libyan detainees about UK involvement in their mistreatment by the Gaddafi regime."
  • (6) When domestic workers are so systematically denied the basic labour rights afforded to other workers, employers cannot be held accountable for the mistreatment of those working in their households.
  • (7) Al-Harith was reportedly awarded compensation after claiming that British agents knew he was being mistreated during the time he was held without charge at Guantánamo.
  • (8) "When, not withstanding any caveats or prior assurances, there is still considered to be a real possibility of mistreatment and therefore there is considered to be a risk that the agencies' actions could be judged to be unlawful, the actions may not be taken without authority at a senior level.
  • (9) Evidence of systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation centre that is being described as the UK's Abu Ghraib emerged today during high court proceedings brought by more than 200 former inmates.
  • (10) Earlier this year, a former prisoner in Sichuan complained that he was beaten by officers after filing anonymous complaints relating to the mistreatment of fellow inmates.
  • (11) The police have repeatedly said they investigate all reported cases of mistreatment.
  • (12) Miliband repeatedly states that the government "condemns" torture and does not "condone" torture, but does not address the allegation that the UK was "complicit" in Binyam Mohamed's illegal detention and severe mistreatment.
  • (13) Surely, thought I naively, my GP has a duty to see that other bits of the NHS don't mistreat me.
  • (14) The UK government denies that mistreatment was as widespread as alleged.
  • (15) The second concerns Shaker Aamer , a Saudi national and UK resident who was detained and allegedly mistreated at Bagram, before being flown to Guantánamo.
  • (16) The influx of complaints – mainly from former detainees alleging mistreatment, false imprisonment or UK complicity in rendition – demonstrates, according to the Cabinet Office, why secret court hearings are required.
  • (17) Civil cases which are currently not heard at all – including cases where mistreatment is alleged – will be able to be fully investigated and scrutinised by the courts.
  • (18) Allegations of mistreatment by adults made by children of preschool age are often dismissed as fictitious with the suggestion that children of this age are prone to fantasy and unable to discriminate fact from fiction.
  • (19) We weren’t given any official explanation only that it was routine procedure but extraofficially police officers told us they said they had been given an order from above.” “There was no physical mistreatment but our group, especially the women, felt intimidated by the constant detentions,” he added.
  • (20) Of 206 cases of serious child mistreatment brought before a metropolitan juvenile court on Care and Protection Petitions (C & P), 63 (31%) were dismissed (returning the child to the parent(s].

Step


Definition:

  • (a.) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
  • (a.) To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
  • (a.) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
  • (a.) Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
  • (v. t.) To set, as the foot.
  • (v. t.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
  • (v. i.) An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
  • (v. i.) A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
  • (v. i.) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.
  • (v. i.) A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
  • (v. i.) A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
  • (v. i.) Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
  • (v. i.) Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
  • (v. i.) Walk; passage.
  • (v. i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
  • (v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
  • (v. i.) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
  • (v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
  • (v. i.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
  • (v. i.) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These data suggest that the hybrid is formed by the same mechanism in the absence and presence of the urea step.
  • (2) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
  • (3) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (4) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
  • (5) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (6) To explore an early step, we synthesized 5 beta-cholest-7-ene-3 beta,6 alpha,14 alpha-triol in tritiated form.
  • (7) Change of steps in achieved just by varying the reaction conditions without any product purification.
  • (8) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (9) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
  • (10) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
  • (11) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
  • (12) We describe both the three supportive psychotherapeutic steps, which may last months to years including subsequent dynamically psychotherapeutic strategies as well as the reactions of the auxiliary therapist function on the students.
  • (13) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
  • (14) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
  • (15) Problem definition, the first step in policy development, includes identifying the issues, discussing and framing the issues, analyzing data and resources, and deciding on a problem definition.
  • (16) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
  • (17) The second step occurs several hours later and consists of the transactivation of adenylate cyclase and pertussis toxin genes.
  • (18) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
  • (19) The influence of exogenous mitogens (RFG, TGF beta 1 and insulin) and autocrine factor (at different step of purification) on the growth of Morris hepatoma 7777 (MH) cells was estimated by both methods.
  • (20) An experience in working out and introduction of a system of failure-free performance work as one of the most important steps in creating a complex system for the production quality control at the Leningrad combine "Krasnogvardeets" is described.

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