What's the difference between aftermath and fallout?

Aftermath


Definition:

  • (n.) A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is Cruz, a longtime critic of so-called “amnesty” policies, who has spent the greater part of the debate’s aftermath seeking to clarify his position.
  • (2) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
  • (3) Gazans have also been badly affected by Egypt's closure of the Rafah crossing, the main route out of Gaza, in the aftermath of the military takeover.
  • (4) In the aftermath of the incident, there was considerable confusion over the hecklers’ identities – even within the Cossack community.
  • (5) The sanctions that could be levied in the aftermath of the Geneva meeting were expected to focus on Putin's close associates, including oligarchs who control much of Russia's wealth, as well as businesses and other entities they control.
  • (6) In the aftermath of that war, Hasan Zeyada, a psychologist with the GCMHP, told the Guardian : "The majority of children suffer many psychological and social consequences.
  • (7) All these freedoms have been crushed in the aftermath of the coup.
  • (8) A former Halliburton manager was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which claimed 11 lives.
  • (9) In the aftermath of the horsemeat scandal, Tesco mounted a huge advertising campaign insisting it was changing – that it would pay farmers a fair price for their produce and honour its responsibilities to the food supply chain.
  • (10) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
  • (11) In the aftermath of Snowden's disclosures he was forced to apologise for misleading Congress.
  • (12) Based on one-to-one interviews with more than 40 people, the inquiry said the immediate aftermath of the stabbing “was well managed by all agencies”.
  • (13) The same would be true in the aftermath of the crisis of the neoliberal order, as the need to reconstruct a broken economy on a more democratic, egalitarian and rational basis began to dictate the shape of a sustainable alternative.
  • (14) Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA’s security and human rights programme, acknowledged the need for governments to assess their approach in the aftermath of major attacks but said: “What we don’t want to see is government using the Paris attacks as a pretext for extending surveillance authorities or pushing back against reforms that even the government acknowledged as necessary.” Some of the hawkish responses to events in Paris “raise a question of whether there’s an exploiting of public fear and anger and anxiety to push legislation through”, she added.
  • (15) But it was funny and interesting also because it really showed that, maybe, I can still bring something to a team.” This will be Drogba’s second departure from Stamford Bridge having initially left for Shanghai Shenhua in 2012 in the immediate aftermath of his winning penalty in the shoot-out against Bayern Munich which saw Chelsea claim the European Cup .
  • (16) The identity of the four Britons, whose details did not emerge in the immediate aftermath of the crash, became known over the weekend.
  • (17) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
  • (18) Parts seem as deserted as Chernobyl or as blasted as Stalingrad in the aftermath of battle.
  • (19) Along with a team of collaborators with curiously close ties throughout a big election and its aftermath.
  • (20) I understand why biting is seen so badly.” Suárez said that he had “no desire” to speak to anyone in the aftermath of the match against Italy.

Fallout


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (2) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
  • (3) Of course, we have discussed the consequences of the war, but the debate hasn’t been charged with the kind of emotionality as it has in Britain.” Cordesman anticipated little fallout from the Chilcot inquiry report for the former US president.
  • (4) The two men appear to be discussing Tusk's fallout with Cameron over the latter's proposals to curb access to benefits: "What the fuck are they on about with these benefits?"
  • (5) But it is unlikely that we are any more willing to tolerate the negative fallout from regulation today than we were in the 1970s, and therefore we predict that the proportion of GNP going to health care will continue to grow throughout the remainder of this century.
  • (6) This policy, which is law in the EU and in Japan, not only limits environmental fallout but creates efficiencies as firms design products to be easier and safer to recycle.
  • (7) Oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands along the Louisiana coast, and the political fallout from the spill has reached Washington, where the head of the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned today.
  • (8) The deputy president, William Ruto, said it is now up to the developed world to mitigate the fallout, suggesting that other countries including the UK should resettle the refugees who could soon be kicked out of Kenya.
  • (9) Collecting the fallout from a corner, Max Gradel unleashed a shot which might well have beaten Rob Elliot had it not deflected wide off Andrew Surman.
  • (10) Rural farmers like Kallon – whose rice, cocoa and cassava fields account for nearly half Sierra Leone's gross domestic production – are among the hardest-hit in the economic fallout of the world's biggest Ebola epidemic.
  • (11) A group of economists told the Wall Street Journal that is exactly what is happening : They blame our lackluster recovery this year on a pullback in spending and investment by US companies, which are afraid that the fallout from a fiscal cliff could compromise their ability to find funding or function normally.
  • (12) In Cecil the lion fallout, hunters defend Walter Palmer and fear big game bans Read more The move comes after an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt, setting off a worldwide uproar.
  • (13) The predicted fallout of strontium-90 in 1970 is less than 1 percent of that during the peak year 1963.
  • (14) Property funds halt trading as Brexit fallout deepens Read more Yields on US Treasuries, the benchmark for bonds worldwide, hit record lows out to 30 years.
  • (15) Measurements of fallout of particles and microorganisms were carried out during the light and dark period in animal rooms occupied by rats, rabbits, cats and monkeys.
  • (16) A London 2012 spokeswoman said that CoSport would have to deal with the fallout, and advised purchasers to contact the company: "Anyone with any problems is advised to call the CoSport call centre.
  • (17) But France’s recent political turn to the right, the growth of populism, as well as the fallout from terrorist attacks and anti-Muslim rhetoric, have helped spread a narrative in which Putin’s Russia is cast as an unavoidable partner, if not a model, in framing a new “multipolar” world order.
  • (18) In other words, as central banks have battled to limit the fallout from economic crisis at home, they have simply inflated bubbles elsewhere.
  • (19) But only now, when the world's biggest economies have been lashed by the fallout from the irrational exuberance of the markets, has the idea captured the imagination of their leaders, including Gordon Brown , right.
  • (20) Actually the ones who should be most afraid are the Macedonians,” he says to the Bayers, in a nod to the fallout between Greece and its northern neighbour.

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