What's the difference between surety and war?

Surety


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being sure; certainty; security.
  • (n.) That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
  • (n.) Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act.
  • (n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail.
  • (n.) Hence, a substitute; a hostage.
  • (n.) Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
  • (v. t.) To act as surety for.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The radio talkshow host, whose syndicated show is the most listened-to talk-radio programme in the US, said Moore and others who provided surety for Assange's return to court on sex charges filed by Swedish prosecutors were "fans of serial rapists".
  • (2) The Australian journalist Phillip Knightley, said he had also offered £20,000 in surety for Assange, but he had no regrets about putting his money at stake.
  • (3) However, although the company's loans are not raised by using the property as surety, as mortgages are, the loans are attached to the property to which the improvements are made.
  • (4) He expressed a surety about how he saw the world and his place in it.
  • (5) Khan and other supporters of Assange, including film director Ken Loach and publisher Felix Dennis, posted bail totalling £200,000 to Westminster magistrates court, with a further £40,000 as promised sureties, to secure the WikiLeaks' founder's freedom when he first faced extradition proceedings in 2010 .
  • (6) None of the combinations or arrangements suggested surety.
  • (7) The federal government’s contribution towards hospitals and schools has to go up.” “The states require a return to surety on health and education.
  • (8) However before a ball was kicked in 92-93, the FAW requested that the club put up a bond as surety that their floodlights would be erected in time for the beginning of the League Cup competition.
  • (9) Two broad questions need to be asked: what is the government's role in facilitating application of contemporary nutrition knowledge to public health, and what standard of scientific surety should be the basis for its application?
  • (10) The unidentified defendant was allowed bail at Canterbury crown court in Kent on Friday but was not freed until Monday because it was not clear whether his bail surety had been paid.
  • (11) It emerged in the hearing that the DfT had demanded a greater surety from FirstGroup, pushing up the bond from £50m and settling on £200m, although at one point FirstGroup had offered £15m more.
  • (12) Several high-profile figures have supported Assange since his arrest in December 2010, including the film director Ken Loach and socialite and charity fundraiser Jemima Khan, who each offered £20,000 as surety.
  • (13) He immediately responded and asked if I would be prepared to come to court in the next hour to act as a surety for Assange.
  • (14) The decision by the district judge Howard Riddle to remand Assange into custody was made despite the film director Ken Loach, the journalist John Pilger, and the socialite Jemima Khan, offering sureties for him totalling £180,000.
  • (15) Failing reasonable surety of extirpation, permitting spontaneous healing, if feasible, is the best cours.
  • (16) "When looking into the eyes of those your government believe have veered from the path of democracy, British prime ministers and foreign secretaries alike will need to be able to speak with conviction and surety," their letter said.
  • (17) There were more reports on Monday nightof customers badly inconvenienced by the meltdown, including an unnamed man who was granted bail at Canterbury crown court, Kent, on Friday, but had to wait until Monday to be released because the bank computer problems prevented the court from confirming receipt of a surety demanded by the judge in the case.
  • (18) Restaurant designer Sarah Saunders also pledged £20,000 in surety.
  • (19) The bail conditions are that security of £200,000 is deposited with the court before Assange is freed, as well as two sureties of £20,000 each from two named people.
  • (20) Wednesday Trump began Wednesday with his unique combination of self-pity and self-importance, announcing in a speech to the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut : “No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.” But the Senate intelligence committee joined the House oversight committee in asking the acting FBI chief, Andrew McCabe, to hand over any notes or memos from Comey, and wrote to Comey asking him to appear in both open and closed sessions.

War


Definition:

  • (a.) Ware; aware.
  • (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
  • (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
  • (n.) Instruments of war.
  • (n.) Forces; army.
  • (n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.
  • (n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
  • (v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
  • (v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
  • (v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.
  • (v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
  • (2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (4) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (5) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (6) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (7) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
  • (8) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
  • (9) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (10) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
  • (11) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
  • (12) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
  • (13) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
  • (14) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
  • (15) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
  • (16) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (17) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (18) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
  • (19) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
  • (20) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.

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