What's the difference between obedience and sacrifice?

Obedience


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
  • (n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
  • (n.) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope.
  • (n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
  • (n.) One of the three monastic vows.
  • (n.) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Devolution mitigated the authority but also undermined the obedience.
  • (2) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
  • (3) Obedience to authority has been implicated in hypnotic behaviour from the earliest theories.
  • (4) Before his speeches on race, he was an obedient, relatively undistinguished servant of the state.
  • (5) They are those who have chosen a following of Jesus that imitates his life in obedience to the Father, poverty, community life and chastity.
  • (6) Disillusioned voters saw that even the PSOE offered little more than cowed obedience to Merkel’s demands for more austerity.
  • (7) The result was that London had an authority to which Scotland had to be obedient.
  • (8) Some ethical implications for nursing practice are considered in relation to three issues: competence, honesty and obedience.
  • (9) The lesson is clear: when push comes to shove, obedience to God trumps human decency, to say nothing of obedience to the next commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
  • (10) Neither age nor sex differences in obedience rate were found.
  • (11) Benedict argued that the church will survive by becoming a smaller obedient Church, a just "remnant".
  • (12) But I want to highlight two specific points about all of this which relate to several of the topics I wrote about in my first week here, as well as some of the resulting reaction to that: First , there are multiple institutions that are intended to safeguard against this ease of inducing blind trust in and obedience to authorities.
  • (13) We should realise that as in many eastern societies, the existence of developed people with their own independent opinions is not too wide, and there are many statesmen who care only for obedience and full subordination.
  • (14) I love cats more than dogs, but the reason I love cats is because a cat would never deign to appear on an idiotic digital channel obedience programme.
  • (15) They had an excessive startle response, sometimes with echolalia, echopraxia, or forced obedience.
  • (16) But I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to Him and the Word of God.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pro and anti-gay marriage protesters converge on Kentucky clerk’s office.
  • (17) In Kingsley Amis’s The Alteration (1976), the Reformation has not happened and England remains a Roman Catholic country, obedient to the religious rule from Rome of a Yorkshire-born pontiff, who seems to be a caricature of Harold Wilson, British prime minister at the time Amis was writing.
  • (18) It is still a potentially incendiary work of art, very much concerned with the tipping point between mass obedience and unstoppable uprising.
  • (19) In this period what the papal encyclicals usually term "atheist communism" has spread a far wider sway over regions of traditional Roman Catholic obedience.
  • (20) One day the British were there, immovable, complete masters; next day, the Japanese, whom we derided, mocked as short, stunted people with short-sighted squint eyes.” After the second world war when the British were trying to reestablish control: “... the old mechanisms had gone and the old habits of obedience and respect (for the British) had also gone because people had seen them run away (from the Japanese) ... they packed up.

Sacrifice


Definition:

  • (n.) The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.
  • (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.
  • (n.) Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.
  • (n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
  • (n.) To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.
  • (n.) Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.
  • (n.) To destroy; to kill.
  • (n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
  • (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
  • (2) At the People’s Question Time in Pendle, an elderly man called Roland makes a short, powerful speech about the sacrifices made for the right to vote and says he’s worried for the future of the NHS.
  • (3) Furthermore, at sacrifice, 7 days after the initiation of the disease, the concentration of circulating PAF in treated as well as untreated rats was normal.
  • (4) To determine whether this density gradient shift was due to increased maturation rate of bone or decreased resorption and mineralization rates, [3H]proline and 45Ca were injected 5 days and 24 hours prior to sacrifice, respectively.
  • (5) All freedom-loving people will miss him, but we will never forget his sacrifice and his achievements."
  • (6) Indomethacin given as a single dose 4 hours prior to sacrifice resulted in a significant depression of 14C-arachidonate incorporation but did not affect granularity of interstitial cells.
  • (7) The projection-matrix recovery step can be performed in a matter of seconds; thus the benefits of signal recovery are gained without a significant sacrifice in computation time.
  • (8) Two injections of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor blocker prazosin 45 and 90 min before sacrifice, alone or together with the beta-blocker propranolol, prevented the increase in plasma AVP found in SCGx rats 6 h after surgery, and the decrease in plasma AVP and the increase of NIL-AVP found 16 h after SCGx.
  • (9) We can never sacrifice fundamental fairness for political gain, and we should never value expediency over justice – especially in matters of life or death.
  • (10) In group I (torsion maintained), unilateral torsion of the spermatic cord was maintained until the day of sacrifice; in group II (torsion and untwist), torsion of the spermatic cord was maintained for 8 to 12 hours, then the spermatic cord was untwisted and the testis was retained until the day of sacrifice.
  • (11) Selected anaerobic bacterial groups in cecal and colonic contents of clinically healthy pigs fed a corn-soybean meal production diet were determined at sacrifice after 4, 8, and 11 weeks on feed, corresponding to intervals within the growing-finishing growth period.
  • (12) The percentage change in total hemolytic complement activity (% delta CH50) was determined between serum obtained prior to sacrifice and at t = 0.
  • (13) He skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery but referred to the sheer scale of the sacrifice, pointing out that, among more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, only about 50 so-called "thankful parishes" saw all their soldiers return.
  • (14) But from others there is a sense that Microsoft has had to sacrifice a potentially progressive view of the console industry to win back consumer support.
  • (15) Both men had been members of the peshmerga for more than 30 years, and each had stories of struggle and sacrifice that were true to the Kurdish force's legend.
  • (16) The results imply that the traditional methods of sacrifice may result in the measurement of spuriously low tissue concentrations of some peptides, e.g.
  • (17) Thus the G20 leaders, faced with the still gathering failure of the global economy, see no alternative but to sacrifice another $1 trillion .
  • (18) Histological examination after sacrifice at wk 52 revealed that the incidences of tongue papillomas and esophageal squamous cell carcinomas in the groups given MNAN followed by catechol (57.1% and 64.3%) or resorcinol (50% and 58.8%) were significantly higher than those in the carcinogen only controls (9.1, and 0%, respectively).
  • (19) Bone histomorphometry with double tetracycline labelling and cartilage histology were performed after sacrifice on days 28 and 56.
  • (20) Provided that one is prepared to sacrifice some of the additional information provided by the multiple PGSE gradient approach, it is possible to construct a velocity image alone by means of a single PGSE phase-encoding step.