What's the difference between pence and tuppence?

Pence


Definition:

  • (n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny.
  • (pl. ) of Penny

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p ; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible.
  • (2) Further, in a vain attempt for a boost in the Hoosier State, Cruz unveiled former rival Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he receives the nomination and was able to cajole the state’s sitting governor, Mike Pence, into an endorsement.
  • (3) Donald Trump is fairly progressive about gay people but when you look at Mike Pence and the Republican party, the religious undertone threatens to roll back the tide of progress.
  • (4) In 2015, Pence signed an anti-LGBT bill opponents said would allow wide-scale discrimination, kicking off a furious and costly boycott of the state by much of corporate America.
  • (5) In both cases, her coaching seems to have paid off, at least for a time: those GOP lawmakers walked into decidedly fewer self-sabotaging boobytraps in the election cycle following the 2013 retreat at which she spoke, and Pence’s strong performance at the RNC last month was a bright spot in an otherwise blighted convention.
  • (6) If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions,” Pence told Politico in 2011.
  • (7) Conway has a long list of success stories when it comes to this kind of retooling, from helping GOP lawmakers change the way they talk about rape to helping Trump’s running mate Mike Pence polish his personality in ways that “kept him comfortable in his own skin” ahead of a gubernatorial reelection campaign, as Pence’s communications director recently told TPM .
  • (8) On Friday websites reported that when news of the 2005 recording broke, Trump running mate Mike Pence – who was eating a chili dog with his daughter at a campaign stop in Toledo, Ohio – abruptly dropped the pool of reporters who were following him, thereby avoiding any questions on the matter.
  • (9) Putin should stay out of this election.” Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, issued a statement saying: “The FBI will get to the bottom of who is behind the hacking.
  • (10) But Pence, close observers said, simply advocated such ideas ahead of their time, at a moment when Republican leadership still feared that the “war on women” label would spoil their standing with the public in the 2012 election.
  • (11) BSkyB pounces on 17.9 per cent stake, at 135 pence per share, costing £920m, blocking a potential bid from Virgin.
  • (12) Mike Pence has his own troubles when it comes to this scandal.” Ben Wikler, Washington director of the progressive group MoveOn.org, said: “Mike Pence has been on the Trump train.
  • (13) And I’ve had to walk away from my Baptist church after they were strongly guiding us to vote for Trump and Mike Pence.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
  • (15) Specifically, this price represents a premium of: • 44% over Cadbury's share price of 524 pence on 3 July 2009, prior to recent analyst suggestions regarding potential sector consolidation; • 37% over Cadbury's 90-day average share price of 553 pence in the period up to 27 August 2009, the last business day preceding this letter; and • 31% over Cadbury's share price of 578 pence at close yesterday.
  • (16) The voters would punish them and the result is you’ve got Pence as president and he’s more like Gerry Ford.
  • (17) Pence grounds out for the second out of the longest inning of the game.
  • (18) On Sunday, after the ninth US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco rejected the government’s application for an emergency stay, Pence was sent as an emissary from the White House to several talkshows.
  • (19) Then Peralta flies out to Pence in right field, and just like that, the inning over.
  • (20) Pence met repeatedly with House Republicans but rebels still abounded.

Tuppence


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a book, it wasn't worth tuppence, but I'd had it all these years.
  • (2) They had no money of their own - as my mother would put it years later, "They had tuppence ha'penny.
  • (3) Through that labour I learned that when a society is dominated by a minority of wealthy people, the hopes and dreams of the majority aren’t worth tuppence.
  • (4) While being a hot actor means that bandmates Emre and Mikey probably have to get changed in the loos and stand at the back during photoshoots, at least having Olly in the band means he can call up his famous mates (Ben Whishaw, Black Mirror’s Tuppence Middleton, Utopia’s Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) to lend their videos some genuine dramatic heft.
  • (5) If they have the right system, they might be able to do a page layout, but all the relevant parties can't look at it together, putting in their tuppence-worth and coming to a conclusion then and there.
  • (6) Despite spending only "tuppence" in the transfer window and losing 16 players in the summer, Paul Ince has moulded a niggardly side; they had conceded only two goals in the league and kept three clean sheets before this fixture.

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