What's the difference between procure and suborn?

Procure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan.
  • (v. t.) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
  • (v. t.) To solicit; to entreat.
  • (v. t.) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
  • (v. t.) To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.
  • (v. i.) To pimp.
  • (v. i.) To manage business for another in court.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fetal monitoring (electronical and gasanalytical) is able to acknowledge in due time a hypoxic situation and procures favourable to the perinatal morbidity.
  • (2) Thus, HBsAG screening should be done along with the implementation of a blood policy that ensures the procurement of sufficient blood for hemotheraphy in Ethiopia.
  • (3) Procurement has already brought down prices in foster care significantly in recent years, so differences between the costs of placement options may now be marginal.
  • (4) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
  • (5) The number of synaptic sites is regulated by both pre- and postsynaptic cells, in proportion to their cell surfaces; an independent size increase in the receptor terminals (procured in the Drosophila mutant gigas) produces an increase in their synaptic population.
  • (6) Currently, procurement is obtained from living donors.
  • (7) Since 1986, the number of kidneys procured in New York City increased while the number procured nationally fell.
  • (8) The vigilantes use shotguns and cartridges and have been short in supply, so the leader left yesterday for Maiduguri to procure more in the event of any attack,” he told AFP.
  • (9) Different procurement systems have already made England a slightly "different country" for Scottish suppliers, many of whom are more concerned about Cameron's equivocal attitude towards the European Union.
  • (10) ChE depression is determined by comparison of the affected specimen to normal ChE activity for a sample of control specimens of the same species, but timely procurement of controls is not always possible.
  • (11) With cities moving markets, joint procurement standards generate great potential for economies of scale, from buses to smart street lighting.
  • (12) These results justify the use of UW solution by intraaortic flush especially during multi-organ procurement.
  • (13) The taskforce said "smarter use" could be made of the government's £150bn procurement budget to better support innovation and suggested the creation of a new Department for Science and Innovation under its own secretary of state.
  • (14) A previously described technique of simultaneous whole liver and pancreas procurement depended on "classic" hepatic arterial anatomy, which is present just over half the time.
  • (15) Procurement experts looking to work in this part of the world will get great experience of project contracting work, demandfor which are likely to continue to increase.
  • (16) The Southeastern Regional Organ Procurement Program has developed a computerized system for the selection of organ transplant recipients.
  • (17) Despite increasing referrals for organ donation in metropolitan New York, procurement has remained essentially unchanged from 1983 through 1988 at 9 to 13 per million population, falling far short of increasing demand.
  • (18) Surgical-pathologic staging was performed laparoscopically, with exploration of the abdomen and procurement of peritoneal cytology and pelvic and para-aortic lymph nodes.
  • (19) Although private capital was gradually replaced by public investment, the latter was much less productive as criminal organisations distort and corrupt the public procurement process.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Italian anti-mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone.
  • (20) The reliability of these techniques is dependent on proficient specimen procurement and the cytopathologist's expertise and experience.

Suborn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
  • (v. t.) To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This was a blatant and outrageous attempt to suborn a member of parliament," said Mr Galloway.
  • (2) Here we have an allegation of suborning witnesses and perverting the course of justice.
  • (3) It is also likely that they have been suborned in T cells by the immunosuppressant drugs that are potent pseudosubstrate ligands that selectively block the signal transduction cascade.
  • (4) Some were alleged by the defence team to have suborned witnesses.
  • (5) Mr Bryant said later: "If newspapers are suborning police officers, encouraging them to think that there is money to be made from selling information, that can only be bad news for the criminal justice system."
  • (6) The Third World was also concerned that genuine concerns about the effects of another round of liberalisation on trade on the environment, jobs, cultural and social issues were being seen to be constantly suborned to pure economic interests.
  • (7) The problem of the PCC and its discredited predecessors – which turned a blind eye to evil practices from blagging to voicemail hacking – is that the big newspaper groups have run, funded and suborned it.
  • (8) It's shocking because it must be an offence to suborn a police officer, and the chequebook-enticed leaking from police investigations has all too often compromised them so seriously that no prosecution has been possible.
  • (9) It was victim to "a culture of misinformation" as orders to destroy intercepts, emails and files were simply disregarded; an intelligence community that seems neither intelligent nor a community commanding a global empire that could suborn the world's largest corporations, draw up targets for drone assassination, blackmail US Muslims into becoming spies and haul passengers off planes.
  • (10) He needs to tell people how this can occur and to make sure that preventing other people with similar evil or twisted intent from joining in this terrible fight and indeed suborning their families into those terrible images we saw yesterday.” Comment is being sought from Morrison.
  • (11) Taylor says: "He got a lot of things right – deforestation, the national lottery, the loss of privacy at the hands of intruding technology, the suborning of the proletariat with porn."