What's the difference between reaffirmation and reassertion?
Reaffirmation
Definition:
(n.) A second affirmation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gynaecological and neurological lesions are reaffirmed as important causes and pathology within the urinary tract is found to be a more frequent component that is usually appreciated.
(2) Before the dramatic interruption to her speech, Marois reaffirmed her party's commitment an independent Quebec.
(3) With all attempts at mediation failing - Gbagbo has repeatedly rejected offers of a "safe and dignified" exit - the African Union reaffirmed its recognition of Ouattara as the rightful leader of Ivory Coast in March.
(4) Approximately one-third of the applicants whose initial determination was reaffirmed after reconsideration then requested a hearing.
(5) The authors note that poison center callers seem to constitute a pool of significantly suicidal persons and reaffirm the premise that poison centers and suicide centers should coordinate their efforts.
(6) • The United Nations moved a step closer to calling for an end to excessive surveillance on Tuesday in a resolution that reaffirms the “ human right to privacy ” and calls for the UN’s human rights commissioner to conduct an inquiry into the impact of mass digital snooping.
(7) Xi and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, issued a joint communiqué reaffirming their opposition to a nuclear-armed North Korea.
(8) Signing a "squirrel accord" after meetings at one of his stately homes, the prince reaffirmed his desire to drive grey squirrels out of the UK in order to save our "much loved" native red squirrels .
(9) "This only reaffirms the need to tackle climate change as an immediate priority and highlights both the benefits of early action and the cost of inaction," said Neil Bentley, CBI Director of Business Environment.
(10) After having reviewed the previous NKF report on the issue of dialyzer reuse (American Journal of Kidney Diseases 3:466, 1984), the Task Force resolved that the principles of patient consent to dialyzer reuse and right to refuse a reused dialyzer as presented in the report be reaffirmed.
(11) The pathological features of the retina correlate well with the observed ERG changes, reaffirming the sheep as a useful model to delineate early events in ceroid lipofuscinosis.
(12) This idea suggests that general practitioners should reaffirm the importance to them of the intellectual discipline of science.
(13) Our findings reaffirm the usefulness and applicability of cell culture systems to model in vivo repair phenomena.
(14) A review of three hysterograms inadvertently performed during early pregnancy reaffirms the regular appearance of infiltration of aqueous opaque media into the substance of the decidua, producing the sign of the double-outlined uterine cavity.
(15) Carbon capture and storage (CCS) The government reaffirmed its commitment to paying £1bn for one demonstration plant to capture and store the carbon emissions from a coal power station.
(16) We also reaffirm our commitment to the full implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries (IPOA), the Almaty Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries, the Political declaration on Africa's development needs, and the New Partnership for Africa's Development.
(17) They reaffirm the need for rapid implementation of European Council conclusions of 28 and 29 June.
(18) On Sunday Assange said: "Will it [the US] return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on, or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world?"
(19) In a new letter to Congress, Comey reaffirmed the FBI’s earlier assessment clearing Clinton of any criminal activity.
(20) In children with known associated severe medical maladies, diagnostic barium enema can serve to reaffirm the diagnosis prior to the hazardous operative intervention.
Reassertion
Definition:
(n.) A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) But she is determined to reassert her authority and appears not to have been amused by the remark.
(2) Moyes is the referee, which is just as well as the fixture generally has a bit of needle to it: the veterans needing to continually reassert their prowess over the younger generation.
(3) It is first reasserted that the idea that the problem drinking paradigm is nothing more than a bid by psychologists to take over the alcohol studies field is neither a useful nor serious proposition.
(4) Come on.” The pair, who share a strained relationship born of regular clashes since Mourinho arrived in English football in 2004, did not acknowledge each other on the final whistle, once Chelsea had reasserted their five-point lead at the top of the table and condemned Arsenal to a first league loss of the season.
(5) The Egyptian delegation reasserted its uncompromising rejection,” he said.
(6) More likely though was that the Foreign Office, which has deep misgivings about the flirtation, would now seek to reassert its control over China policy and cool relations with the world’s second-largest economy.
(7) For Escobar, development amounted to little more than the west's convenient "discovery" of poverty in the third world for the purposes of reasserting its moral and cultural superiority in supposedly post-colonial times.
(8) Putin wants to reassert Russian power in the Middle East, but it is Europe that he really has in mind.
(9) Schools should be encouraged to fly the union jack to help “reassert” Britishness, Ukip’s culture spokesman has suggested.
(10) Either the unions are reasserting their power over a party which increasingly relies on their funding, or else the party leadership as a whole has taken the view that the public is not in a mood for more privatisation just now.
(11) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(12) They were portrayed as an attempt - not very successful - to reassert his authority.
(13) After meeting David Cameron in Downing Street, the Mauritian prime minister, Navinchandra Ramgoolam, told the Guardian that the aim of talks with the UK and US was to reassert Mauritian sovereignty over the islands.
(14) In a bid to increase its resources, the almoner’s office last month reasserted the Vatican’s monopoly on the production of papal blessings on parchment, which some Catholics buy to mark special occasions such as baptisms and marriages.
(15) The medical profession can reestablish bioethical order and reassert leadership through a new and urgently needed medical specialty, which the author tentatively calls bioethiatrics or bioethiatry.
(16) Obama has not finished reasserting himself, as Letterman's audience will discover.
(17) Hamas, which had denied responsibility, was back on its own, and it looks as though it seized on the later kidnapping and murder of a Palestinian youth as an opportunity to reassert itself and to recover support it had lost among Palestinians and abroad by staging another David and Goliath encounter with Israel.
(18) But just to confuse matters, spelling can reassert itself, with speakers taking their cue from the arrangement of letters on the page rather than what they hear.
(19) Part of the wider shift to the right is a reassertion of power-grabbing masculinity, usually performed for other men.
(20) It was time for Newcastle to reassert themselves and Sissoko could not have chosen a better time to score his first goal of the season.