What's the difference between remand and remit?

Remand


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To recommit; to send back.
  • (n.) The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a sample of men remanded into custody for medical reports during a three-month period, it was found that those who received recommendations for treatment had a diagnosis of acute mental illness, had in the past been admitted more frequently to mental hospitals and had spent a longer period as in-patients.
  • (2) He appeared at Ipswich magistrates court on Monday and was remanded in custody.
  • (3) Reducing the remand time in prison for people accused of minor offences who would not get a prison sentence on conviction will save a further 1,300 places a year.
  • (4) However in a statement released in response to the Amnesty International report, corrective services minister Joe Francis said the government makes “no apology for detaining young people who commit violent crimes,” and suggested all Aboriginal young people who are currently in detention are either serving a sentence or are on remand for “extremely serious crimes,” including murder.
  • (5) In 1990 he was held on remand for almost a year charged with possessing documents likely to be of use to terrorists.
  • (6) Would he have been remanded in custody in a different atmosphere?
  • (7) And that being the case, should they be remanded in custody over the possession of an Oyster card not registered to them and the theft of a mirror?
  • (8) US federal judge David Bunning, who remanded Davis to US marshals during a high-profile hearing last week, ordered the Rowan County clerk released from jail on the condition she doesn’t interfere with efforts by her deputies to issue marriage licenses.
  • (9) Indigenous people make up 40% of people jailed or held on remand in WA, despite being only 3.5% of the population.
  • (10) Four young Egyptians have been remanded in custody, accused of making fun of the government in a satirical video posted on social networks, according to judicial sources.
  • (11) Pineda, who was not immediately charged, has been remanded in custody for 40 days while investigations continue.
  • (12) Tomkins spent 17 months on remand in Birmingham's Winson Green prison before he was acquitted.
  • (13) Amazon recently started blocking pre-orders and delaying shipments on certain Hachette titles as part of a move to remand a higher cut of the retail price.
  • (14) The prevalence of mental disorder amongst prisoners refusing food was studied by examining the prison records of a remand prison and a dispersal prison.
  • (15) Consecutive female admissions to the Winnipeg Remand Centre were studied and data concerning personal history, family background, psychological factors and mental health were recorded.
  • (16) One 35-year-old solicitor said: "Remand [in custody] was used as a sword, as opposed to a shield."
  • (17) Assange, the most famous inmate in the Victorian jail, met his legal team after being sent there on remand when he was refused bail on Tuesday.
  • (18) Michael Adebowale I sentence you to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 45 years less 272 days spent on remand.
  • (19) Peter got six years (which means he will serve three years minus the 150 days he has spent in remand) and a five-year extended licence period.
  • (20) Nearly 40% of remanded adolescents scored above the recommended cut-off scores of the YSR, a figure four times greater than that found among adolescents living in the community.

Remit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
  • (v. t.) To restore.
  • (v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
  • (v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
  • (v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
  • (v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
  • (v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
  • (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
  • (v. i.) To send money, as in payment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mithramycin should be considered in the early treatment not only of hypercalcaemia but also of severe hypercalciuria, if these complications do not rapidly remit during the first course of conventional myeloma therapy, with or without steroids.
  • (2) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
  • (3) Its remit was to produce a report on disinfection in endoscopy.
  • (4) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
  • (5) Anxiety disorders tend to be remitting and relapsing rather than chronic.
  • (6) She said the remit of the inquiry – established under the 2005 Inquiries Act – is due to be published by July, following input from interested parties including those who were spied upon.
  • (7) Each patient had a similar clinical course characterized by hypoglycemia that remitted during hospitalization and recurred after discharge.
  • (8) This deficit tends to remit for manics and schizoaffectives, but not for schizophrenics.
  • (9) Ten (71%) of the 14 patients in the group that received both drugs completely remitted (change in Hamilton Depression Rating Scale score of greater than 75%, and final score of less than 7) within 4 weeks, while few patients treated with desipramine alone met these criteria within 4 weeks.
  • (10) We performed 15 dynamic gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA)-enhanced MRI studies in 8 patients with relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis; 7 were follow-up studies.
  • (11) Because it ought to be crystal clear what the BBC has agreed to do as part of its public service remit.
  • (12) Thus, acute pancreatitis may fall to remit because of proximal pancreatic duct obstruction, for which pancreatoduodenectomy is a reasonable and effective treatment.
  • (13) Therefore, the cost was high by prolonged course of therapy to increase slightly remission rate, although it could remit a few more cases.
  • (14) First, Channel 4 , a commercial network with a public service remit, challenged the BBC's second child as the place where edgier material – and younger audiences – went.
  • (15) Commercial radio executives have criticised BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for failing to fulfill their public service remit – and suggested the two stations be switched to digital-only in a bid to boost digital take-up.
  • (16) ITN scrapped its news channel in 2005 but the BBC has a different remit and viewers look to it at time of national events such as a royal death or other major news stories.
  • (17) The pathogenesis of the relapsing and remitting paraplegia and its relationship with pregnancy is probably multi-factorial.
  • (18) One has to question how this fits with its core inflation-fighting remit?
  • (19) Hacked Off, which campaigns on behalf of victims of press intrusion for tighter press regulation, said this would help the government smooth out the wrinkles in the relevant clause added to the crime and courts bill, which attempts to define which publishers should be in or outside the regulator's remit.
  • (20) If the Parades Commission considers that the loyalist event falls within its remit, it could issue a determination that would limit its route, which currently passes the nationalist Short Strand.

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