(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.
Reflection
Definition:
(n.) The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.
(n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
(n.) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
(n.) Shining; brightness, as of the sun.
(n.) That which is produced by reflection.
(n.) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart.
(n.) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane.
(n.) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth.
(n.) Censure; reproach cast.
(n.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) We propose that this dependence on coexpression reflects the association between the LTA::STa hybrids and LTB subunits.
(3) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(4) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(5) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
(6) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
(7) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
(8) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(9) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(10) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(11) Defibrotide prevents the dramatic fall of creatine phosphokinase activity in the ischemic ventricle: metabolic changes which reflect changes in the cells affected by prolonged ischemia.
(12) The combined results suggest that any possible heterogeneity in the L-CAM genes is not reflected in the size of either the mRNA or protein.
(13) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
(14) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(15) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(16) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(17) At 1 month after the start of the treatment, normalization of PAP or gamma-Sm was not reflected in the following course.
(18) The complication might have been prevented by measurements of U and I, reflecting changes in impedance or by measurements of catheter tip temperature (T).
(19) Critical in this understanding are the subtle changes that occur in the individual patient, reflecting the natural history of the disease or response to its treatment.
(20) In scanning of more than 20 Hz frequency, the spectral pattern also reflected the characteristics of the cone system.