What's the difference between pew and phew?

Pew


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; -- sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow.
  • (n.) Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with pews.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A recent survey by the Pew Research Center shows that for most people, access to the internet without government censorship is important.
  • (2) The survey by the Pew Research Centre found that 18% now say that the US president is a Muslim, up from 11% in March 2009.
  • (3) Image: Courtesy of Pew Research Center The data also show why autocrats might have reason to fear open discussions in cyberspace.
  • (4) "Users clearly want the option of being anonymous online and increasingly worry that this is not possible," said Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet Project.
  • (5) Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law.” In a Pew Research poll of Americans earlier this year 57% of 18 to 29-year-olds said Snowden’s leaks had served the public interest but respondents 65 and over disagreed.
  • (6) If it doesn’t, you know, most likely we’re not living what we’re supposed to be living.” Data from Pew released in anticipation of the pope’s US visit corroborates what Dr. Ospino is saying about “authentic Catholics” and US Latinos: unlike many of their white Catholic counterparts, “Latino Catholics tend to be more aligned with the church” and its views on a host of issues.
  • (7) The Pew survey of 1,511 adults was carried out over four days starting on the day after the first presidential TV debate last week.
  • (8) A recent Pew poll showed that 68% of people think privacy protections online don’t go far enough .
  • (9) Based on the findings of the new "Portrait of Jewish Americans" survey from the Pew Research Center , Republicans will need to find a different key.
  • (10) Pew also found that 68% of internet users think current laws are not protecting their privacy enough online, while 50% are worried about the amount of personal information about them that's online – up from 33% in a similar survey in 2009.
  • (11) According to the Pew Research Internet Project 22% of online African Americans are Twitter users, compared with 16% of online whites.
  • (12) My colleague guided me across the threshold into Ntarama church and steadied me on the first-row pew.
  • (13) Pew’s motivation for funding this work is a general concern that, in a climate of change in the media industry, different funding models are needed for modern journalism – particularly for science and environment reporting.
  • (14) According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Centre's Global Attitudes Project, 43% of Russian internet users regularly use Facebook and Twitter, up from 33% the year before.
  • (15) Research by Reuters found that Americans support Apple, while polling by Pew found that the public are on the side of the FBI , the complex topic and emotive language used on both sides often confusing respondents.
  • (16) I wish that I could just bask in the knowledge that the pope and the people in the pews share many of my views for a transformed church.
  • (17) Other leaders, though, are in the doghouse, Pew said: "Compounding their doubts about the Brussels-based European Union , Europeans are losing faith in the capacity of their own national leaders to cope with the economy's woes.
  • (18) Yet there he was grinning from a pew in Westminster Abbey, using the occasion to "represent my nation" and boost his presidential aura.
  • (19) But Pew's research also underscores the unfulfilled nature of Latino political power.
  • (20) Contrasting the Pew survey with Sidoti’s comments, a clear picture emerges: western millennials believe that we’re failures – immoral and irresponsible.

Phew


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So the ECB is not on fire #phew Michael Steen (@michaelsteen) Ok.
  • (2) "When you have got an organisation that didn't change for a long time then goes through four years of change, there is a tendency to then go, phew, that's great, we've changed, now we can go back to normal - but if we started off at minus five out of 10, I think we are now at four out of 10.
  • (3) Observers described the vote as more of a referendum on Lula, while the front-page headline of one Rio newspaper yesterday exclaimed: "Phew!
  • (4) I said Tanja was quiet and considerate: she said the cats and I were friendly, the facilities very clean (phew!)
  • (5) It was also where she intended to build an academy for girls, which never happened (though Madonna still helped build classrooms), all against a backdrop of missing millions, for which Madonna's side blamed the sacked prospective academy headmistress (also the Malawian president's sister), while there has been an ongoing investigation into the role of the Kabbalah Centre in New York … and (phew) see what I mean?
  • (6) I’m extremely proud but it is not going to help us win the next game of football.” Explaining his point further, Coleman added: “When I say complacency, it’s not because of the group of people we’ve got, or the players; it is subconsciously a bit like: ‘Phew, we’ve done that.’ But the problem is that it is also gone.
  • (7) Phew,” I say laughing, “that is a relief.” Moments later, she’s back to check on me once more, and the conversation turns political.
  • (8) After Thomson's letter was published the company issued a short statement: "Phew what a scorcher!
  • (9) But this feels very natural and logical and 'phew, thank God we have at last got there'."
  • (10) Phew, just thought that this crazy lady had converted into this Islam nonsense and was on her way down on her knees to mumble a prayer.
  • (11) Take those €19.7 billions (over £16bn) off the balance sheet along with a few trifles and – phew!
  • (12) 7.00pm: No - phew - it's Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
  • (13) The coding region of pheR is identical to that of three other cloned tRNA(Phe) genes, pheU, pheV, and pheW.
  • (14) But before you think, "Phew, job done", Naomi Gummer , a Google executive, said last week that technology moves too fast for filters to work and that parents are to blame if their children watch porn.
  • (15) Phew, that's enough exercise for one week … time for a lie down.
  • (16) Multicopy plasmids carrying pheR, like those carrying pheU, pheV, or pheW, complement a temperature-sensitive lesion in the gene for the alpha-subunit of phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase (pheS).
  • (17) This summer, I was forever laying down my New Yorker or my New York Review of Books and saying: “Phew!
  • (18) It included a link to News Corp UK title the Sun’s notorious “Up Yours Delors” front page from 1990, aimed at the then European Commission president, with the accompanying comment: “People probably have enough evidence to judge that one for themselves.” This follows Google’s equally pithy initial response to News Corp’s latest broadside last week, when it issued the following statement referencing another infamous Sun splash headline : “Phew what a scorcher!
  • (19) The nucleotide sequences of the 5'-flanking DNA of pheR, pheU, and pheW are almost identical but are quite different from the same region of pheV.
  • (20) Smoke and lights and noise and shouting and all kinds of stuff and it was just, phew, mindblowing.

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