What's the difference between anyway and regardless?

Anyway


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Anyways

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But if they spurn it, Scotland can continue using sterling anyway.
  • (2) This is bad constitutional reform, but it is a reform anyway.
  • (3) Of course, when you're bloody nearly 80 it's depressing, because you've had it anyway."
  • (4) Having women in top jobs doesn't make any difference anyway If this were the case, why would some of the best brains, both male and female, in the government, including Sir Bob Kerslake , head of the civil service, be concerned about it?
  • (5) Many of them didn’t observe the requirements of JI on ‘additionality’ as they would probably have happened anyway, and I would even doubt the physical existence of some of these projects,” said Vladyslav Zhezherin, one of the report’s authors.
  • (6) Kuyt tries to smash a first-time sidefoot goalwards from the penalty spot, but doesn't connect properly, and Garay blocks anyway.
  • (7) Photograph: Vatican TV 4.21pm GMT Why does the pope choose a new name anyway?
  • (8) And anyway, if her fictional world is so timeless, why has it gone in and out of fashion?
  • (9) Now the case is made that: given the information is collected anyway, why not use it in real time?
  • (10) Here, anyway, is what increasingly seems to be the future: slick corporate logos flashing from prisons, hospitals, schools, detention centres, defence facilities, police stations and more, and a cut-price society pitched somewhere between Margaret Thatcher and Philip K Dick .
  • (11) However, the research shows that the great majority of free swimmers were swimming already, and would have paid to swim anyway.
  • (12) Oh, heavens no, it would be too depressing, and it was East German territory anyway.
  • (13) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
  • (14) Those who claim to do nothing, miss a basic point that renewable energy and all the things we need to do to stop this, are also good policy anyway.
  • (15) Anyway, he was showing us around and he was saying 'this is the Roosevelt Room – that would be where CJ and Josh [characters from the West Wing] would have been talking' and I thought why not say that's where this president or that president did this or that.
  • (16) "We have done it very cheaply anyway and are not performing for long, but I do know people who have been put off by the intensely commercial atmosphere of the fringe."
  • (17) Anyway, tallies of positive and negative pieces are a dangerous measure, as the Guardian should not be a fanzine for any side.
  • (18) "But lots of this data is held for a short period anyway - so the increased risk comes from being able to look back 12 months for this information."
  • (19) But Miller, in continuing to urge publishers to be "recognised" by the charter did refer to the "incentives", meaning a protection from the payment of legal costs for libel claimants (even if unsuccessful) and the imposition of exemplary damages (which would be very doubtful anyway).
  • (20) There's a persuasive argument that politicians used R&R to justify policies they wanted to impose anyway.

Regardless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity.
  • (a.) Not regarded; slighted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, within 5 min potassium overcame the vanadate potentiation of ouabain binding regardless of the order in which it was added to the reaction mixture.
  • (2) Prior incubation of these antigens with test spleen cells in the agar gel effictively inhibited development of the vibriolytic plaques, regardless of antibody class.
  • (3) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
  • (4) In this study we tested the hypothesis that regardless of concentration pattern and exposure rate the same exposure dose of O3 will induce the same spirometric response.
  • (5) The results indicate that, regardless of the photoperiod, no clear functional relationship can be found between the avian pineal gland and thyroid function, although a transitory increase in T4 levels was seen in both pinealectomized and sham-operated birds shortly after the operations.
  • (6) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
  • (7) Cytoplasmic accumulation of such mRNAs as or c-fos, c-myc, beta-actin an ornithine decarboxylase occurred in serum-stimulated cells regardless of the presence of cytochalasin D, whereas that of thymidine kinase and histone H3 was blocked by the drug.
  • (8) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
  • (9) The time for cervical dilatation from 7 to 10 cm and duration of the second stage of labor did not influence maternal morbidity or fetal outcome, regardless of the method of anesthesia.
  • (10) Infection in the granulocytopenic patient is often life-threatening, and the frequency and severity of infection are increased regardless of the cause of leukocyte suppression.
  • (11) The GI averaged approximately 1.0 throughout the study regardless of which mouthrinse was used.
  • (12) In contrast, complexes of both subclasses inhibited phagocytosis by human monocytes, regardless of the subclass of the inducing antibodies.
  • (13) The low incidence of pneumonia regardless of the type of therapy may be attributable to vigorous, vigilant respiratory care in a population at high risk for developing pneumonia.
  • (14) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
  • (15) These data demonstrate that PTH induces bicarbonate and phosphate excretion regardless of whether carbonic anhydrase is intact or nearly 100% inhibited by acetazolamide.
  • (16) Although the entire cohort of neck patients, regardless of group assignment, improved significantly on all the outcome variables over the 6-week period, patients receiving intermittent traction performed significantly better than those assigned to the no traction group in terms of pain (P = 0.03), forward flexion (P = 0.01), right rotation (P = 0.004) and left rotation (P = 0.05).
  • (17) Immunoprecipitates were analysed by SDS-PAGE and considerable heterogeneity in antigen recognition between individual animals was observed, regardless of infection regimen.
  • (18) There was no difference in bile flow or biliary excretion rate, regardless of which bile acid sulfate was tested.
  • (19) Regardless of age, smoking pack-years, and nasal allergic reactions, the prevalence of asthma was significantly associated with the use of carbamate insecticides (prevalence odds ratio = 1.8, 95% confidence interval: 1.1 to 3.1, p = 0.02).
  • (20) The FLE and FE were present for all suspensions regardless of osmolality.