What's the difference between necessitous and needy?

Necessitous


Definition:

  • (a.) Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.
  • (a.) Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
  • (2) There were two postoperative stomal prolapses, one of which necessitated reoperation.
  • (3) Since the early 1960's nasotracheal tubes have been used for neonates with primary respiratory diseases which necessitated positive pressure ventilation.
  • (4) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
  • (5) An epidemiological survey carried out in 460 public and private institutions chosen at random country-wide in France made it possible to study injuries whose treatment had necessitated an anaesthetic.
  • (6) Judging from available clinical studies, surgical fusion operations may be useful in properly selected patients with spondylolisthesis or in situations for which the surgical approach has necessitated destabilization by laminectomy and facetectomy.
  • (7) Side effects of carbenoxolone therapy were observed, but they did not necessitate withdrawal of the drug and were readily controlled in every instance.
  • (8) The presence of severe pulmonary disease is the critical factor that might necessitate a staged repair.
  • (9) The influence of preanalytical factors such as food intake, posture, use of tourniquet and freezing and storing samples is great and necessitates standardisation of specimen collection.
  • (10) In the others, serum PTH remained elevated and subsequent symptomatic hypercalcaemia necessitated parathyroidectomy.
  • (11) Shaping and fine working of restorations necessitated by cervical lesions, abrasions at the necks of teeth, or root surface caries can often be arduous to complete.
  • (12) The surgical removal of branchiomeric paragangliomas necessitates preparation of a small saphenous vein bypass in case it is not possible to avoid sacrificing the internal carotid artery.
  • (13) Two patients had mild pancreatitis, which necessitated endoscopic sphincterotomy in one.
  • (14) Reoperation was more frequent after valve replacement with bioprostheses (6.7% per patient year) than after valvuloplasty (4.3% per patient year) and after mechanical valve replacement (1.5% per patient year; P less than 0.02), and was necessitated mainly by residual or recurrent valve dysfunction after valvuloplasty, bland or infected periprosthetic leaks in mechanical valves and degradation of bioprostheses.
  • (15) Estimation of pairwise connectivity is the most common method of determining the neural 'network' but usually necessitates the production of numerous histograms for each pair considered.
  • (16) These lesions might necessitate further surgical treatment as possibly total joint prosthesis.
  • (17) The diagnostic criteria of potentially fatal asthma included at least one of the following four potentially fatal asthma events: 1) mechanical ventilation for respiratory arrest or failure, 2) acute respiratory acidosis that did not necessitate mechanical ventilation, 3) two episodes of acute pneumomediastinum or pneumothorax associated with status asthmaticus, 4) two or more hospitalizations for status asthmaticus in spite of long term oral corticosteroids.
  • (18) The recent discovery of the existence of a second mouse TSP gene necessitates careful examination of the discrete biochemical and functional properties associated with each molecule.
  • (19) Thirteen cases were considered medical treatment failures, and 11 necessitated therapeutic surgery.
  • (20) The classic scoliosis was resistant to brace treatment; bracing failed in 70% of patients, necessitating spinal fusion.

Needy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
  • (superl.) Necessary; requiste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) SPUN surveillance may prove too costly to be practical for general application, but it can serve as a means to identify needy children and estimate the prevalence of undernutrition in specific high-risk populations.
  • (2) By failing to address some of the flaws before escalating the number of assessments, the government is in grave danger of undermining the principle of helping people into work, and risks failing the most needy into the bargain.
  • (3) For example, one of Price’s 2015 proposals would have transformed Medicaid into a state block grant, similar to what happened to welfare through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in the 1990s.
  • (4) Spurr said the inspection recognised progress had been made at Pentonville despite the challenges inherent in running a large, old prison with a highly transient and needy population.
  • (5) But he's got needy eyes, like Luis Suarez Old Shep.
  • (6) Indeed, we have been reminded recently of the abject poverty that many have fallen into, needing to use food banks or choose between "eating and heating" and the need for charitable institutions to step forward and help the needy.
  • (7) Updated at 7.06pm GMT 7.02pm GMT We're watching a video explaining how Water.org is fighting the water crisis by using 'water credits' or loans to needy households who don't have a clean supply of water or functional toilet facilities.
  • (8) "Americans would like their president to be sick and needy," explains James Zogby, head of the Arab American Institute and executive member of the Democratic executive committee.
  • (9) So that rightwing free market ideologues can open up all those markets that the US have been whining to the World Trade Organisation about for decades; for some ideological principal that says people should pay less tax and privately fund only the services they need and want, and screw the collective community if they cannot afford to pay their insurance; that puts money in the pockets of the very richest in society, while the very poorest will be expected to step up or die out; that any public provision will not be on the basis of the most needy, but on the basis of who those in control consider to be the most deserving.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels – link to video “If there’s one thing that should be remembered about Peter Dutton’s week, it’s that this is the week that he masterminded the plan to bring 12,000 needy people to this country,” Abbott said in Canberra.
  • (11) We conclude by addressing the obvious need for research and the necessity for maintaining our ethical responsibility both in scientific inquiry and in the treatment of needy individuals.
  • (12) The question, therefore, is not whether such costs should be met, but how they can be met in a way that best maintains and preserves the health of the needy while apportioning this cost equitably over all sectors of the American economy.
  • (13) "Americans would like their president to be sick and needy," explains James Zogby , head of the Arab American Institute and executive member of the Democratic Executive Committee.
  • (14) The study also found that PWAs who qualify only through the medically needy provisions have much shorter enrollment and lower lifetime Medicaid expenditures than other PWAs on Medicaid.
  • (15) For many would-be claimants, Welfare had become a ragged system where, however deserving or needy, they weren't poor enough to qualify for benefits, or the cash involved was too small to bother claiming.
  • (16) As the government has been warned repeatedly, services such as libraries and roads will be cut almost to oblivion, even as the bar for receiving care is raised to the point where all but the most needy are excluded.
  • (17) Despite charities reporting that demand for help has rocketed as a result of economic hardship and welfare cuts, some councils spent more money setting up and administering their welfare schemes than they gave to needy applicants.
  • (18) No-one is going to say, ‘Oh, be a proper woman, shut up’ The NIHR report recommends that the government should provide “appropriate investment in active labour markets”, adequate benefits to the needy, suicide risk training for frontline staff in the NHS, social services and advice sector and that funding should be available to agencies in areas badly hit by the recession.
  • (19) I'm all for adding sparkle to political prose, but not when it means casting one side as a woman, which equals slutty or needy or wrong-headed, which equals nothing like a man.
  • (20) The need to collect this information has been linked to a state-wide effort to target city nutritionally needy elderly for home-delivered meals.

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