What's the difference between state and statehood?
State
Definition:
(n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
(n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
(n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
(n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
(n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
(n.) Estate, possession.
(n.) A person of high rank.
(n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
(n.) The principal persons in a government.
(n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
(n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
(n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
(n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
(n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
(a.) Stately.
(a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
(v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish.
(v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
(n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
Example Sentences:
(1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
(2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(3) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(4) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(5) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(7) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(8) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
(9) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(10) However, the firing of 5-HT neurons appears to relate to the state of vigilance of the animal.
(11) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(12) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(13) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(14) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(15) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(16) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(17) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(18) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
(19) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
(20) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
Statehood
Definition:
(n.) The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stevens, a legend in Alaska, helped the territory gain statehood.
(2) Split into four geographic locations, in Iraq's north, eastern Syria, south-eastern Turkey and western Iran, the Kurds' quest for statehood has remained elusive ever since the Ottoman empire was carved up almost a century ago.
(3) Of course, this is totally hypocritical: their ideology is based on denying national statehood, so they are against establishing a Somali state.
(4) The problems related to infective diseases and their control during the 30 years of Israel's statehood, especially those connected with the mass immigration of the 1950s, are examined in detail.
(5) Demands for regional autonomy or separate statehood began to be raised fairly quickly in different parts of India.
(6) The UN, the EU and Britain joined the Palestinians in condemning the move as provocative at a time when the major powers are struggling to rekindle negotiations while the Palestinian bid for statehood is still before the UN security council.
(7) He said the 1998 NT referendum on statehood failed narrowly with the loss credited to the no vote of Aboriginal people.
(8) Expectation among Palestinians has risen over the past week as Abbas has stood firm in the face of strong US opposition to his bid for statehood.
(9) It was there hoping the time will come when statehood would be obvious for the northern part of Australia and it’s looking closer now,” he says.
(10) Even a year ago, the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN at least put the issue on the agenda, even if Washington sided with Israel by strong-arming members of the security council into blocking it.
(11) Unilateral declarations of statehood were wrong, he said.
(12) Lieberman held a three-day meeting in Vienna last week with Israeli ambassadors to EU nations to brief them on the consequences of a vote in favour of Palestinian statehood in order for them to step up pressure on their host governments.
(13) One European diplomat said that, until recently, US officials believed a "diplomatic ceasefire" was in force and that the Palestinians would not pursue the statehood issue at the general assembly.
(14) The crux of Muñoz Marín’s ridiculously illogical argument – one cannot achieve “political freedom” and be “deadset against colonialism” when one is not “demanding independence” or “asking for statehood” – illustrates how the island’s mostly white, male and affluent political class never had a real vision for Puerto Ricans or Puerto Rico , even from the outset of Muñoz Marín’s failed “commonwealth” experiment that he sold his fellow boricuas .
(15) So, we’ll leave it at that, thanks very much.” How the Northern Territory government went from landslide to 'laughing stock' Read more Federal parliament can grant statehood to the Northern Territory by passing legislation in a “very straightforward legal process” according to the constitutional law expert Prof George Williams.
(16) Israel is to resume the regular transfer of about $100m a month to the Palestinian Authority after withholding the tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinians as a punitive measure following last November's statehood recognition at the United Nations.
(17) ■ In June 2007 he was offered the role of Middle East peace envoy for the Quartet (the US, EU, Russia and the UN), focusing on working with the Palestinians to improve their economy and build the necessary governance and security in their quest for statehood.
(18) US-sponsored efforts to advance Middle East peace process appeared to be fragmenting last night, as the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced he would be seeking immediate recognition of 15 UN bodies and conventions as a further step towards statehood.
(19) The Coag meeting late last month pledged its support for the “resolve” of the NT government to be granted full statehood by 2018, a move supported by both major political parties in the territory, but which was defeated in a 1998 referendum.
(20) The Palestinian offer comes despite Obama angering them by defending the US threat to veto the bid for statehood while praising revolutions in other parts of the Arab world.