What's the difference between reprise and resumption?

Reprise


Definition:

  • (n.) A taking by way of retaliation.
  • (n.) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like.
  • (n.) A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
  • (v. t.) To take again; to retake.
  • (v. t.) To recompense; to pay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
  • (2) It's a free-for-all," one local Christian activist, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, said before police re-entered the town.
  • (3) The effects of such actions – presidential demonizing, threats of legal reprisal – are pernicious.
  • (4) Twitchfilm reported yesterday that Ford was in early talks to reprise his role as the future cop, who is tasked with hunting down a gang of rogue bioengineered humanoids, called "replicants", in Scott's earlier film, itself based on the Philip K Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • (5) For the record Rock said after the show that he would reprise his role, adding: "Who knows if they would want me again."
  • (6) Unicef also called for the immediate release of children associated with armed forces and groups, and their protection from reprisals.
  • (7) Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the vast, arid north say they are caught between the militants and brutal army reprisals.
  • (8) The reprisals against human rights defenders, political activists and journalists I’ve described are not nearly a complete list.
  • (9) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
  • (10) Seoul and its allies now face the dilemma of how to respond, as the South Korean public becomes increasingly restive over what many see as the North's immunity from reprisals.
  • (11) Part of this financing has been replaced by alternative credit providers, which are creating new regulatory challenges.” Reprising recent warnings about widening income inequality in many rich countries, the OECD notes a relatively poor performance in the UK: Income inequality is high.
  • (12) Cameron is not expected to hold a formal bilateral meeting with the US president, who is leading the international drive for armed reprisals for Assad's apparent chemical weapons attacks.
  • (13) Around 1,600 French soldiers have been deployed in the CAR to halt violent reprisals between religious factions that have left at least 465 people dead since last Thursday, according to the Red Cross.
  • (14) It was only in the late 1990s that German Sr reprised work on the film, and continued to do so until the end of his life.
  • (15) Indeed he is, with extra brownie points for brown-nosing Hanks with a love-in sketch reprising the great man’s career .
  • (16) But he is considered an even greater liability as the country has descended into chaos amid reprisal attacks from mainly Christian militias against the largely Muslim rebel group.
  • (17) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
  • (18) Let’s get this one made and that will reinvigorate the franchise and then we’ll go on to maybe doing a more conventional third sequel as we were planning and another idea I have for it.” Aykroyd, who co-wrote the first two Ghostbusters movies and starred as eccentric parapsychologist Ray Stantz, spent several years trying to convince original co-star Bill Murray to reprise his role as Peter Venkman in a followup to 1984’s Ghostbusters and 1989 sequel Ghostbusters 2.
  • (19) The message was a reprise of the commitment to engagement approach he signalled in his inaugural address and was made in an emollient tone that contrasted sharply with that used by George Bush, who included the Islamic Republic in his "axis of evil".
  • (20) Many of these killings appear to be reprisals following attacks.

Resumption


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.
  • (n.) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
  • (2) Moreover, addition of serum albumin after BPI results in growth resumption without displacement of bound BPI and without (early) repair of the envelope alterations.
  • (3) No resumption of the mitotic cycle by the resting R2 cells was observed
  • (4) "I feel good about the park's resumption, but I also have a heavy heart," said Sung Hyun-sang, president of apparel manufacturer Mansun Corporation, which has lost about 7bn won because of the shutdown.
  • (5) Resumption of about a dozen reactors undergoing regular checkups is up in the air amid growing local residents' fear of nuclear accidents.
  • (6) However, there is a large increase in [(14)C]leucine incorporation into the protein of these cells soon after completion of DNA duplication and before resumption of cell division.
  • (7) The role of testosterone in estrual behavior and inhibiting resumption of ovarian cycles is likely minimal.
  • (8) This growth resumption required many years to be completed.
  • (9) Other biologic substances producing a red color without the formation of precipitates showed a disappearance of the red color and resumption of the yellow color of alizarine red S above pH = 3.8.
  • (10) First: although adenine nucleotide repletion occurs very slowly, the adenylate charge was restored after 3 minutes, indicating rapid resumption of mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate production.
  • (11) Up-regulation of receptor expression coincided with increased 3H-thymidine incorporation, which preceded the resumption of cellular proliferation as measured by cell density.
  • (12) We concluded that with the meticulous technique of the Bankart repair as described, postoperative immobilization is not necessary, early return of motion and function can be expected, and resumption of athletic activities with no limitation of shoulder motion is possible for most patients.
  • (13) The deposteroid reduced postoperative pain but did not significantly alter other factors contributing to morbidity such as difficulty in swallowing or resumption of a normal diet.
  • (14) No relation emerged between maternal work status and the quality of infants' attachments to their mothers, indicating that early resumption of employment may not impede the development of secure infant-mother attachment.
  • (15) When pacing was discontinued to allow resumption of sinus rhythm, left and right ventricular filling pressures declined rapidly at 48 hours after resumption of sinus rhythm, by 36% and 53%, respectively.
  • (16) Resumption of enzyme activity in the lamina muscularis mucosae was not recorded during the infection.
  • (17) In 30 of 42 patients (71%) resumption of weight-bearing was achieved by 4 weeks from the time of surgery.
  • (18) This should mean that repair processes are at work immediately after the insult allowing resumption of Na+-K+-ATPase function, clearing up of brain edema and restoration of cation exchanges essential for brain work.
  • (19) In the majority of the patients no clinically apparent discomfort was observed, and only two of 21 placebo patients developed extrapyramidal side effects (EPS) severe enough to require resumption of AP therapy.
  • (20) A third approach to the study of oocyte maturation in vitro, namely oocyte co-culture with follicular constituents was adopted in order to test the role of follicular components in the control of the resumption of meiosis.

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