What's the difference between pontiff and seer?

Pontiff


Definition:

  • (n.) A high priest.
  • (n.) One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus.
  • (n.) The chief priest.
  • (n.) The pope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
  • (2) In a scene rich in symbolism, members of the Swiss Guard have just marched away from the entrance to the pontiff's Summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.
  • (3) Pope Francis in DC: pontiff alludes to sex abuse and political divisions – live Read more “I am also conscious of the courage with which you have faced difficult moments in the recent history of the church in this country without fear of self-criticism and at the cost of mortification and great sacrifice,” he said.
  • (4) I think he said something much softer than was originally reported by the media.” Trump went on to praise the pope as having “a lot of energy” and being effective in his role, adding that he agreed with many of the pontiff’s positions.
  • (5) A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam ( We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.
  • (6) We cannot think that a society has a future when it fails to pass laws capable of protecting families and ensuring their basic needs, especially those of families just starting out.” Intentionally or not, the pontiff’s politically tinged address would have bolstered his progressive reputation, even though traditional Catholic social doctrine has long espoused access to housing, medical aid and work.
  • (7) The leader of Ireland’s Catholics, archbishop Eamon Martin, said he would discuss its findings with Pope Francis when he met the pontiff in Rome later on Friday.
  • (8) The first Latin American pontiff, who once worked with slum dwellers in his home city of Buenos Aires , Argentina, expressed solidarity with the residents of the Varginha favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, where he received a rapturous welcome.
  • (9) But, as Rome marks his first anniversary, just how successful has this peculiarly popular pontiff been?
  • (10) Donald Trump takes bait and responds to Clinton’s DNC speech with Twitter salvo Pope Francis enters Auschwitz death camp in silence The pontiff walked slowly and alone beneath the infamous gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau emblazoned with the words Arbeit Macht Frei.
  • (11) When the pontiff can’t bring the hammer down hard on one of the globe’s most egregious and well-documented bishops complicit in child abuse cover-ups, he does a disservice to disillusioned Catholics who expect real reform.
  • (12) On Thursday, the pontiff unleashed the most powerful and politically loaded rhetoric of his trip, attacking the "culture of selfishness and individualism" and urging more efforts to fight hunger and poverty.
  • (13) This marked the first meeting between Alexandrine and Roman pontiffs since 451.
  • (14) Ever since Bergoglio – the first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope and the first to take the name Francis – after St Francis of Assisi – strode out on to the balcony of St Peter's on 13 March to joke that cardinals had been forced to cast their nets to "the end of the Earth" to find a new pontiff , the church has been reinvigorated, reinterpreted and, some would say, purged of a little of the poison of the recent past.
  • (15) When Pope Francis touches down in Havana on Saturday, the modest 78-year-old pontiff will have a chance to savor the rapprochement he helped to broker between the US and Cuba last year – a deal that stunned the world and revived the Vatican’s status as a diplomatic powerhouse .
  • (16) While he declined to comment on any details of the encyclical following his morning meeting with the Argentinean pontiff – the document has already been written and is being translated – he said he was counting on the pope’s “moral voice and moral leadership” to help accelerate talks.
  • (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) This disclaimer is probably necessary because the late pontiff is revealed to have made some eccentric decisions but, as Harris’s “late Holy Father” shares most of the biography of Pope Francis and has also made identical speeches, it is in practice impossible not to impose his face on the character.
  • (19) Pope Francis urges Congress to treat immigrants in 'humane and just' way Read more Without mentioning Donald Trump or other immigrant-bashing Republican presidential contenders, the pontiff summoned the spirit of America – North, South, Central – and its common humanity.
  • (20) After the remote, intellectual German theologian came the church's first Jesuit leader, its first Latin American pontiff – and the first pope to take the name of Francis.

Seer


Definition:

  • (a.) Sore; painful.
  • (n.) One who sees.
  • (n.) A person who foresees events; a prophet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With respect to the relative case fatality rates, the complements of the relative survival rates, the eight-year rate of 19 percent for the BCDDP versus that of 35 percent for SEER connotes 46 percent fewer women dying in the BCDDP group.
  • (2) Standardized morbidity and mortality ratios were determined by using an expected number calculated by applying age-specific incidence rates from Rochester studies and Cancer Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results Reporting (SEER) data to the person-years of follow-up.
  • (3) The availability of two independent sets of abstracted diagnoses on 289 cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), one from the Iowa Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program and the other from an epidemiologic study in Iowa of factors affecting rural males (FARM), allowed us to determine the disagreement between abstracted diagnoses.
  • (4) Data were analyzed from 1110 thyroid cancer cases between 1960 and 1984 identified by the Hawaii Tumor Registry, a population-based Statistics, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) participant covering the entire state of Hawaii.
  • (5) The annual age-adjusted incidence rate per 100,000 person-years in Navy men was significantly lower than in the U.S. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) population, probably due to screening and other selection factors associated with Navy service that result in a healthy worker effect.
  • (6) This study evaluated the characteristics of symptoms associated with stage and other extent of disease factors at diagnosis among incident cases of the endometrium (N = 98) identified in the Iowa NCI-SEER population-based cancer registry.
  • (7) Comparisons with the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results tumor registries (SEER) data indicate an increased relative risk of acute myelogenous leukemia following postoperative regional radiation (P less than .01) and adjuvant chemotherapy (P less than .001).
  • (8) From the SEER files of the NCI, 8,587 cases of breast cancer diagnosed in 1975 were analyzed.
  • (9) Titled Exodus, Scott's film will feature Christian Bale as the Jewish seer who leads the children of Israel out of Egypt to freedom in the promised land of Canaan.
  • (10) Rates for pediatric cancer in the Greater New Orleans area were compared with rates from the National Cancer Institute's SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) Program.
  • (11) Incidence rates for breast cancer in South Louisiana women are 20% lower than the SEER combined rates, and rates for cancer of the uterine corpus and the ovary among white women are 43% and 32% lower respectively than the SEER averages.
  • (12) To determine the role of screening in this increase, trends in the incidence of in situ and invasive carcinoma of the breast were evaluated using records of the metropolitan Atlanta SEER program between 1979 and 1986.
  • (13) Descriptive epidemiological findings for 7,696 patients with newly diagnosed thyroid cancer reported to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program for the years 1973 through 1981 are summarized.
  • (14) There are very small differences in rates for black women between South Louisiana and SEER areas.
  • (15) Methods were applied to data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program for breast and colon cancer.
  • (16) These findings contrasted sharply with the Iowa SEER Program classification that coded 289 (79.4%) of these cases as invasive bladder cancers.
  • (17) FHS and Connecticut SEER rates matched closely, with the same primary tumor sites appearing commonly in both groups.
  • (18) Information on histopathologic groupings, incidence of various tumor types according to age, general treatment trends and survival statistics are available from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registries of the National Cancer Institute.
  • (19) The mortality rate among SEER patients was approximately 1.5 times that among CCPDS patients.
  • (20) Survival was shorter in the 4 SEER registries which had shipbuilding as a major industry than in the others with less potential asbestos exposure, offering weak support for the hypothesis that asbestos-exposed cases of mesothelioma have worse survival experience than other cases.

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