What's the difference between afterthought and reconsideration?
Afterthought
Definition:
(n.) Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) The NGOs permitted – often as an afterthought – to join them intelligibly represent neither civil society nor electorates.
(2) Because the Trail Blazers didn't make many major moves during the offseason, they started the season as an afterthought in the incredibly competitive Western Conference and their early success provoked more skepticism than accolades.
(3) It seems that even if it were to be an afterthought, any major theoretical work should be committed to certain positions at the four higher levels so that it becomes obvious for the kind of theory that gets developed.
(4) He added as seeming afterthought that Mr Nixon had called the meeting to discuss with him the decision to release the damaging tapes which prove that he ordered the cover-up.
(5) Here, international football is an afterthought to the global proselytising of the Premier League.
(6) Caleb Porter convinced what few remaining doubters he had with a masterfully managed series against Seattle, that even turned the now-familiar doomed Sounders charge in the second leg into an afterthought to Portland's emphatic first half.
(7) Aboriginal issues have been mismanaged to the point that it’s seen as an afterthought in policy,” he said.
(8) Like With the Beatles, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is an authentically brilliant album in an age when pop albums were usually an afterthought: Big Girls Don't Cry and 12 Others, as the title of a Four Seasons album released that year put it, with an admirably honest shrug of indifference.
(9) The majority of the citizens of the United Kingdom – the people of England – have been treated as an irrelevance, a nuisance or an afterthought.
(10) The trouble with this outfit is that the messages are mixed: was he trying to look smart but didn't have time to pull himself together and tuck his shirt in, or was he aiming for casual and put a suit jacket on as an afterthought?
(11) In such circumstances the 2015 general election will feel like an afterthought as numbed English politicians, stripped of authority, stumble to explain the revolution of 2014.
(12) When it so often feels that women are an afterthought in policymaking, to suggest children should come first might appear to be wilful obstructionism (or just daft).
(13) Production of magnetic tapes as a by-product of the publication process, and their use for retrospective searching or for SDI services, was a much later development, almost an afterthought.
(14) Web apps are an afterthought at best, as demonstrated by data from Flurry published this week which showed that people spend more than 80% of their time on a smartphone using an app, rather than the web via a browser.
(15) He’s not the worst that I’ve seen anyway.” “I’m starting to like that doctor,” Three Day Beard adds as an afterthought.
(16) It’s about time that the Guardian and other media put the majority of the football world front and centre, instead of treating it as an afterthought when the FA Cup is on and otherwise ignoring it (almost) completely.
(17) Aging can no longer be considered an afterthought in biographies.
(18) He conflates the scourge of drugs with everything from lottery winners to Oxbridge graduates who haven't heard of Mr Micawber , and has a hilarious gift for the waspish afterthought, as in: "Teachers are no longer really teachers.
(19) We see this as a massive step forward; a wake-up call to the international community and to governments, that inclusion of people with disabilities is a principle, not an afterthought.” These global goals, if adopted, will represent a seismic shift in how the world tackles poverty Helen Morton, Save the Children Helen Morton, post-2015 lead for Save the Children, said: “These global goals, if adopted and then implemented, will represent a seismic shift in how the world tackles poverty.
(20) We doubted there would be half a dozen passengers getting off at Heathrow from each train, and they would need another train to get to a terminal.” Stokes concluded that “for the Tories, HS2 was really about Heathrow runways … as if the train was an afterthought.” When Adonis heard that Prideaux was advising Villiers, he was delighted.
Reconsideration
Definition:
(n.) The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Approximately one-third of the applicants whose initial determination was reaffirmed after reconsideration then requested a hearing.
(2) The research reported in this article calls for a reconsideration of this conclusion.
(3) The internal free trade with foods on the one hand and the shift of inspection and control measures on the other necessitate a reconsideration of traditional official food inspection procedures.
(4) In the request for reconsideration, Gissendaner’s lawyers cite a statement from former Georgia supreme court chief justice Norman Fletcher, who argues that Gissendaner’s death sentence is not proportionate to her role in the crime.
(5) I called the Department for Work and Pensions to ask for a mandatory reconsideration and they weren’t very helpful.
(6) This result rules out the simplest model in which the nick at Chi promotes initiation of recombination, forces reconsideration of Chi's role in recombination, and bears on molecular models for Rec-mediated recombination.
(7) The results of disc examination and of radiographic and biologic investigations prompted reconsideration of factors previously considered to be pathogenetic (amyloidosis, hydroxyapatite crystal deposition, aluminum toxicity), except one: secondary hyperparathyroidism.
(8) These findings emphasize the need for a reconsideration of the ultrasonographic criteria of PCOD.
(9) These few cases were largely associated with oral vaccine and despite their small number have led to a reconsideration of killed vaccine as a public health measure in the United States.
(10) Reconsideration of previous morphological and biochemical observations in the light of the present findings makes it appear very likely that bilirubin primarily affects membrane function, especially in mitochondria.
(11) But perhaps the time has come for reconsideration of the present upper limit of 38 degrees C. Many varieties of blood warmers are available in the US, but none at this time is based on electromagnetic activity.
(12) The Spirit of Shankly and Spion Kop 1906 believe that given the fact there has been this reconsideration by the owners, it is only fair and appropriate that we reconsider our next steps until the full impact of these changes can be established.
(13) Concerning the update reconsideration of anxiety disorders of children, should childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder be assimilated as an anxiety disorder?
(14) On a theoretic level, this hypothesis and the antigenic shift phenomenon force a reconsideration of the pathways of soft-tissue differentiation.
(15) A reconsideration of the Würzburg controversy, adding closely related altered state phenomena to the transitional series between "impalpable awareness" and specific imagery, suggests that the normally masked processes underlying the "felt meaning" or "insight" state are most directly exteriorized as what Klüver termed "complex" or geometric-dynamic synaesthesias.
(16) One outcome of psychiatry's increasingly medical orientation has been a reconsideration of the psychiatrist's traditional taboo against treating members of the same family individually.
(17) The reconsideration of microsurgery in reconstructive tubal surgery yields clues for patient selection with regard to in-vitro fertilisation.
(18) The concept that the intestine is an organ of quiescence after surgical stress merits reconsideration.
(19) The data presented are thought to be of relevance as to reconsideration of the effectiveness of perinatal care for preterm babies.
(20) Such rapid advances may necessitate reconsideration of the conclusions of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on Neurofibromatosis, especially those on the categories of persons in which a neurofibromatosis should be considered and the need for caution in recommending surgery.