What's the difference between statement and statesmen?
Statement
Definition:
(n.) The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
(n.) That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
(3) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(4) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(5) So too his statement that "in Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready.
(6) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(7) 12pm, Channel 4 press office: "I refer you to the statement put out last night."
(8) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(9) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
(10) Whilst we deeply regret all these incidents and acknowledge that the care of these patients could have been better, this is a relatively low number of incidents for a hospital of this size,” it said in a statement.
(11) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
(12) In a statement, a St James's Palace spokesman said: "The Duchess of Cambridge has been discharged from the King Edward VII hospital and will now head to Kensington Palace for a period of rest.
(13) Pressure test and impact test are leading to different strength statements.
(14) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
(15) However, financial markets seem unconcerned: 10-year gilts have rallied since the statement.
(16) A statement from the club read: "Everybody at Sheffield United is extremely shocked and saddened to learn of the death of former player and manager Gary Speed.
(17) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
(18) The report says this tactic has helped the west uncover at least one of Iran's secret nuclear sites and, according to official statements by the Iranians, has caused enrichment centrifuges to break.
(19) Their only clues were two statements involving contrasting mental terms, with each statement referring to one of the possible hiding places.
(20) According to Israeli media reports, the US statement had caused "senior officials in Jerusalem to tear out their hair".
Statesmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Statesman
Example Sentences:
(1) Ghani, he said, would “work in tandem with the country’s first-ever chief executive officer”, Abdullah Abdullah , after the “two statesmen … came together to form a government of national unity following a very contentious election”.
(2) They include some of her greatest artists, scientists, industrialists and statesmen and stateswomen; most of her older aristocracy; and her present Queen.
(3) With the campaign now entering the final 200 days, Alex Salmond is expected to bolster that argument by accusing the UK government of betraying "antiquated, unacceptable" attitudes on Scotland in a speech for the New Statesmen in London on Tuesday evening.
(4) The statements which follow are the concisely expressed views of distinguished scholars, educators, statesmen and practitioners in the health field.
(5) Iranians have paid a high price for the inflammatory statements of their statesmen, but they have paid a bigger price for the ignorance of the opposite side to domestic politics in Iran, its lack of knowledge about the country’s history.
(6) We should realise that as in many eastern societies, the existence of developed people with their own independent opinions is not too wide, and there are many statesmen who care only for obedience and full subordination.
(7) They never found a place or real status as statesmen or power brokers in their own backyard.
(8) Corb especially recommends two of the Gathering's elder statesmen, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Ian Tyson.
(9) The duo – "two old coots", in Bowles' own quip this week – are the elder statesmen of federal budget battles.
(10) Gorbachev, after his resignation, sent him an effusive letter, praising him as one of the greatest living international statesmen.
(11) Then came Nye Bevan at the Labour conference in 1957, attacking a unilateralist resolution as “an emotional spasm” that threatened to send British statesmen “naked into the conference chamber” .
(12) But he had been brought up in Cliveden and London against a background of Cabinet Ministers, diplomats and intellectuals constantly arguing and explaining events: as other children played nursery games, he overheard statesmen and politicians, playing the world's game of high diplomacy.
(13) The Elders , a group of international statesmen formed by Nelson Mandela, including former US president Jimmy Carter and former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, have released a video setting out their new proposals.
(14) But Kenton's own views on the might of capital aren't so very different: "It was the power of Business, not the deliberations of statesmen, that shaped the destinies of nations," he reflects.
(15) On 9 May in Moscow, statesmen are to celebrate the victorious ending of the most destructive war in European history, against Nazi Germany.
(16) Meanwhile, he is cursed by statesmen, acclaimed by radicals, and copied by anarchists all over.
(17) "As a firm, we are investors, not statesmen or policy makers.
(18) How could an artist see the deathwish that statesmen such as Chamberlain refused to recognise?
(19) In the dock, there was every prospect that the former dictator, with nothing to lose, would have spilled embarrassing secrets about Libya's relations with leading European powers, international oil firms and former statesmen such as Tony Blair.
(20) Over centuries, it has hewn an abundance of military strategists, statesmen and polar explorers.