What's the difference between stalker and watchman?

Stalker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who stalks.
  • (n.) A kind of fishing net.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (2) David Stalker, CEO of UK Active , regards anything that gets women lifting as beneficial: "Some operators have opted to offer women-only sessions, others have moved their resistance equipment to less exposed areas.
  • (3) * * * Stalker, meanwhile, having made his decision, pursued Tape 042 with the utmost vigour.
  • (4) The review of rape investigations by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Crown Prosecution Service follows high-profile cases such as the "Night Stalker", Delroy Grant, who raped and assaulted elderly victims over a 17-year period in London, Kent and Surrey.
  • (5) There is no independent proof that Kammerer was a predatory stalker; there is only Carr's word for the pursuit from St Louis to New York; there is persuasive evidence that Kammerer was not gay.
  • (6) Mighty Deer Stalker Tough 10km off-road (and very muddy) run in Peeblesshire, Scotland, which starts at dusk.
  • (7) The anti-pornography organisation described the film's central figure, Jamie Dornan's Christian Grey as a "stalker and batterer".
  • (8) In another she spoke about visiting then-husband actor Sean Penn in jail, whose jail mates at the time included serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the Night Stalker.
  • (9) The number of Stalker copies per genome and chromosomal localization vary among D. melanogaster strains.
  • (10) Rates of reoffending are high, perhaps unsurprising given that most stalkers suffer from psychiatric problems, but it is uncommon for them to receive specialist treatment as part of their sentence.
  • (11) Not because hackers had released Social Security numbers , home addresses, computer passwords, bank account details, performance reviews, phone numbers, the aliases used when high-profile actors check into hotels (a safety measure to keep stalkers away), and even the medical records of employees and their children .
  • (12) Today I want to go even further and offer protection at the first signs of stalking, stopping offenders in their tracks.” Garry Shewan, Greater Manchester police’s assistant chief constable and the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for stalking and harassment, said: “We want to stop stalkers in their tracks.
  • (13) Between hearings he chatted with McCauley’s solicitor, Pat Finucane , much to the anger of watching RUC officers, who told Stalker that they regarded Finucane, who had represented many people accused of being republican terrorists, as being “worse than an IRA man”.
  • (14) "I know I'm really glad that that person's not following me around like a stalker!"
  • (15) Stalker began to think that special branch, supported by MI5, might be using informants to lure terrorism suspects into pre-planned ambushes, mounted by police officers who were indeed shooting to kill.
  • (16) Not that this only happens to women of course – I have had male friends who have ended up on antidepressants because of vile female stalkers.
  • (17) Most novel substrains are internally heterogenous which is indicative of the continuing Stalker transposition.
  • (18) This must be made a reality in prosecutors' day-to-day practice to ensure stalkers are put before the courts and that [there are] appropriate sentences and treatment."
  • (19) The transposons causing the mutations are: P element (5 alleles), gypsy (3 alleles), 17.6, HMS Beagle, springer, Delta 88, prygun, Stalker, and a new mobile element which was named roamer (2 alleles).
  • (20) The allegations that republican terrorist suspects were deliberately killed rather than being arrested led to an investigation by John Stalker, then deputy chief constable of Manchester, in the mid 1980s.

Watchman


Definition:

  • (n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
  • (n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Saad al-Dawla, the night watchman of the al-Mathaf hotel, said he was sleeping when the commandos came to the beach.
  • (2) When we return from dinner at the ungodly hour of 9.20pm, we have to be let in by the night watchman.
  • (3) When Trayvon Martin was shot to death by an overzealous neighborhood watchman in 2012, no one knew much about the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) and the kinds of laws they secretly push – including the now-infamous “stand-your-ground” laws that allow Americans to shoot first and ask questions later.
  • (4) How the infection was transmitted to the first victim in the city, a watchman's wife who lived on the outskirts, is more difficult to explain.
  • (5) This paper describes the case of a pregnant 17-19 year old unmarried girl from Kenya who has a primary level education, no definite religion, is unemployed and living with her father, a watchman.
  • (6) Their guiding light is the Gladstonian ideal of a low tax, laissez-faire, "night-watchman state".
  • (7) Ferguson mired in sweeping racial discrimination, federal report finds Read more The same high bar was in place for a two-year investigation into the 2012 killing in Florida of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, by George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watchman.
  • (8) The first was a teenage boy caught foraging for stale bread in an empty compound whose constantly shifting story suggested to the British that he might have been an insurgent sympathiser or even a "dicker" – a watchman providing a steady stream of intelligence on the movements of foreign forces.
  • (9) As always, this isn't a straightforward equation – a panopticon effect in which we are monitored by a faceless watchman and receive nothing in return.
  • (10) At the morgue entrance a watchman, Wilzor, huddled by a radio listening to upbeat Compas music.
  • (11) Instead the short volume, entitled Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet and published on Monday, is intended to be what the Wikileaks founder calls "a watchman's shout in the night", warning of an imminent threat to all civilisation from "the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen" – the web.
  • (12) The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – interactive Read more Clinton invoked several high-profile cases, including that of Trayvon Martin , the Florida teenager who was shot to death in his own neighborhood in 2012 by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, and Sandra Bland, who was found hanged to death in a Texas county jail cell , three days after a routine traffic stop escalated into physical confrontation.
  • (13) Instead, Britain’s main opposition party resembles a dilapidated warehouse storing heaps of votes behind rusted gates, guarded by a drowsy night watchman.
  • (14) "I was just sitting in my chair when suddenly I heard a huge bang," said a watchman of a nearby hospital who did not want to give his name.
  • (15) Martin was killed by a neighborhood watchman who viewed his presence as “suspicious”.
  • (16) Ah, then there's Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, now The Night Watchman , singing for striking teachers and assailed unions – playing both his own subversions and acquainting young America with the great radical folk canon.
  • (17) The watchman's wife need not have been the first one to catch the infection.
  • (18) The night watchman-like Rhodes in Oxford, by contrast, occupies a crevasse in an Oriel building overlooking High Street, unobtrusively, and insidiously, guarding an always-shut door below him.
  • (19) In a particularly absurd episode, he is chased by a squad car after his random shooting of a busker, commandeers a cab (killing its driver), crashes into a Korean deli, kills a cop who tries to disarm him, escapes from the armed police who seem to have him surrounded, shoots dead a janitor and a night watchman in a nearby building, and (as a Swat team arrives in a helicopter, just too late) sits in his office confessing his crimes ("thirty, forty, a hundred murders") to his lawyer's answering machine.
  • (20) To escape the nuptials, in 1941 he ran away to Johannesburg, where he landed a job as a night watchman guarding the compound entrance of a goldmine.

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