What's the difference between rife and ubiquitous?

Rife


Definition:

  • (a.) Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.
  • (a.) Having power; active; nimble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As an organisation rife with white privilege, Peta has the luxury of not having to consider the horror that such imagery would evoke.
  • (2) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
  • (3) Crosta said the lack of internet access in many parts of the world where wildlife crime is rife was not a major barrier to success, because WildLeaks is aimed at exposing the key players in the international crime networks, not the low-level operatives on the ground.
  • (4) The City is rife with gambling addicts whose habits contribute to a risk-prone culture of the sort which helped Kweku Adoboli lose UBS £1.5bn, according to one London trader.
  • (5) Perhaps monstering earns underdog sympathy, with contempt for the press as rife as contempt for conventional politics.
  • (6) She wants it to be a smooth, constructive, orderly process.” With speculation rife about how Britain plans to conduct the negotiations, Tusk wants to avoid a discussion and will not invite other EU leaders to respond.
  • (7) Concern – which was already rife among Britons living and working in EU countries about the effect on their lives if Britain were to leave the single market and reject freedom of movement – has been compounded by last week’s UK general election result.
  • (8) James Murdoch, the New York Times and Sienna Miller The New York Times published an report in September 2010 claiming "a dozen" reporters had said hacking was rife at the News of the World.
  • (9) On Sunday, Jones tweeted about "heavy shelling and other exchanges" of fire in the vicinity of the embassy and speculation about the potential evacuation had been rife at the State Department for more than a week.
  • (10) It is all too easy to show that RT’s coverage is rife with conspiracy theories and risible fabrications: one programme showed fake documents intended to prove that the US was guiding the Ukrainian government to ethnically cleanse Russian speakers from western Ukraine.
  • (11) Speculation is rife that international aid was dependent on Greece following through on agreements to buy military hardware from Germany and France.
  • (12) Competition among software providers is rife, and it can be difficult to determine which option is best suited for particular organisational and contextual needs.
  • (13) Critics have long charged that Alibaba’s Taobao online marketplace, one of the world’s largest shopping sites with 7 million sellers offering 800 million items, is rife with fake goods.
  • (14) The bill was rife with the sentiment that Snap recipients are largely lazy, unemployed, or underemployed, and that the solution to Snap's expansion was to force its recipients to take jobs.
  • (15) Even so, Steve Gibson, the club’s owner apparently came very close to sacking the Spaniard and rumours are rife that Karanka might not be around next season with some believing Nigel Pearson could step in.
  • (16) Malaria is rife: children under seven and pregnant women cannot be sent there because of malarial issues.
  • (17) The clashes occurred close to the village of Elbeyli, a small border town rife with smugglers to which the Turkish military has sent reinforcements in recent weeks.
  • (18) In the London agencies where she worked in the 80s, overt sexism was rife, but Gallop says she didn’t notice “because that was the way things were.
  • (19) Use of these new damaging and powerful forms of synthetic cannabinoids is rife in our prisons and by homeless people, with estimates of up to 50 deaths last year .
  • (20) But gagging clauses, self-censorship and dread of speaking out is rife.

Ubiquitous


Definition:

  • (a.) Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analysis of Alu repeat polymorphism should be useful in construction of a high-resolution map and also in identifying genotypes of individuals for clinical and other purposes because the repeats are ubiquitous and the technique for their detection is simple.
  • (2) Because TNF mRNA appeared ubiquitous in the organs of control rats examined and because the endotoxin-induced increase in TNF mRNA was relatively small, endotoxin may induce the expression of the TNF protein in serum not only by increasing TNF mRNA levels but perhaps more importantly by a posttranscriptional mechanism.
  • (3) The distal sequence element which has many properties in common with transcriptional enhancers contains, in addition to Sp1 binding sites, an octamer binding site which mediates activation through interactions with the ubiquitous transcription factor Oct-1.
  • (4) The latter protein is ubiquitous in the eubacterial kingdom and can be purified in large quantities.
  • (5) This suggests that the chronotropic effect of PTH is ubiquitous among the terrestrial vertebrates.
  • (6) These results are consistent with the previous observation in HTC cells that the decay rate of ODC activity in the presence of cycloheximide correlated well with the proportion of ODC present as a complex with antizyme, suggesting the ubiquitous role of antizyme in ODC degradation.
  • (7) It is hoped that the MSDB will lead to a better understanding of cerebrovascular disease in blacks and possibly to in-depth comparative studies of the ubiquitous problem of atherosclerosis.
  • (8) Implications for the ubiquitous occurrence of priming through the process of social categorization are discussed.
  • (9) The effect of ubiquitous clostridial infections on ruminants is discussed.
  • (10) Thus the innocuousness and ubiquitous availability of dextromethorphan render it attractive for worldwide pharmacogenetic investigations in man.
  • (11) Subsequently calmodulin, a ubiquitous Ca2(+)-binding protein, was found to be widely distributed in many tissues and to be involved in a variety of Ca2(+)-mediated cellular processes.
  • (12) All available information indicates that this ubiquitous and tightly regulated DNA replication protein is a central component of the pathway(s) leading to DNA replication and cell division.
  • (13) Intensive use of pefloxacin selected multiresistant S. epidermidis which became ubiquitous in the hospital environment.
  • (14) Should workers compensation be extended to provide disability benefits when the aggravating stimuli are ubiquitous, when the employment relationship was brief, when separation from the offending stimuli ends symptoms, or when hyperreactivity can be medically managed?
  • (15) We have analyzed the binding of Sp1, a ubiquitously expressed transactivator, to the promoter region of the gamma genes.
  • (16) The hornet investigated is the one ubiquitous in Israel - Vespa orientalis.
  • (17) The induction is ubiquitous among Schwann cells, irrespective of the type of axon they originally ensheathed.
  • (18) The biological function and the reason for the ubiquitous distribution of these factors remain unclear.
  • (19) The gene for von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis (NF1) was recently identified by positional cloning and found to code for a large, ubiquitously expressed protein.
  • (20) Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) is a ubiquitous soil contaminant that rarely causes disseminated disease in adults regardless of immunological status.