(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.
Subsequent
Definition:
(a.) Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.
(a.) Following in order of place; succeeding; as, a subsequent clause in a treaty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(2) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(3) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(4) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.
(5) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(6) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
(7) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(8) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
(9) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(10) The degree of increase in Meth responsiveness elicited by the initial provocation is a major factor in determining the airway response to a subsequent HS challenge.
(11) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(12) None of the children in the study showed clinical symptoms of acquired subglottic stenosis before discharge from hospital, and none has been readmitted for this condition subsequently.
(13) Subsequent isoelectric focusing in sucrose revealed an isoelectric point of 9.0-9.2.
(14) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
(15) However, the effects of such large-scale calvarial repositioning on subsequent brain mass growth trajectories and compensatory cranio-facial growth changes is unclear.
(16) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(17) We describe both the three supportive psychotherapeutic steps, which may last months to years including subsequent dynamically psychotherapeutic strategies as well as the reactions of the auxiliary therapist function on the students.
(18) The second algorithm finds all subsequence alignments between the pattern and the test with at most k differences.
(19) In subsequent experiments, both components were found to be significant and additive predictors of face recognition with no residual effect of typicality.
(20) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.