What's the difference between forethoughtful and proactive?

Forethoughtful


Definition:

  • (a.) Having forethought.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dysfunctional impulsivity is the tendency to act with less forethought than most people of equal ability when this tendency is a source of difficulty; most previous work on impulsivity appears to have focused on this trait.
  • (2) Rapists – deliberately and with forethought – use alcohol as a weapon in their assaults.
  • (3) No amount of forethought and attention to detail can guarantee the success of the Triangle.
  • (4) No, the price is not in monetary values, but the price of forethought, planning, good organization and effective use of that committee.
  • (5) Although our opening date has been delayed, I am confident that our forethought and preparation will result in a smooth transition and an efficient staff.
  • (6) The images published by the US newspaper revealed that the device that killed 22 people used by Salman Abedi had been made with “forethought and care”, raising questions for investigators about how it had been constructed and by whom.
  • (7) Functional impulsivity, in contrast, is the tendency to act with relatively little forethought when such a style is optimal.
  • (8) I can tell you the people that I’ve executed, when they committed crimes, they didn’t, wasn’t thinking about the death penalty and a lot of them were high, or a lot of them in the generation of people we’re dealing with today don’t have a lot of forethought about the end result,” he said.
  • (9) Manchester City – except they’ve planned it with skill and forethought, whereas we didn’t.
  • (10) Citing community feedback about the riots, the report concluded: "Either the violence was spontaneous without any degree of forethought or … a level of tension existed among sections of the community that was not identified through the community engagement."
  • (11) which might carry off "Lear" without forethought is not his, but if sheer acting ability and intelligence can make Lear live for us in the theatre, then Mr Redgrave's interpretation, taken wholly, is one of the most interesting and vivid lessons in the way to play the part.
  • (12) It is demonstrated, by analysing data taken from the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database, that zero crossing analysis can sometimes be used t distinguish between different arrhythmias, but forethought concerning the number of sum and difference operations to be taken on the original data set is required when computing the higher order crossing counts.
  • (13) The preparation of overlapping electron micrographs (particularly from transmission electron microscopy) requires special forethought in planning, exceptional skills in microscopy and photographic techniques, as well as in display preparations which are unique in their handling and execution.
  • (14) Trump blundered into it on Wednesday when, with little evidence of forethought, he said in a TV interview that abortion ought to be illegal and women who underwent such an illegal procedure should face “some sort of punishment”.
  • (15) The key to successful arthroscopic surgery is careful forethought, meticulous planning, constant education, and a dependable team.
  • (16) Selection of a nuclear medicine computer system is a process that should be approached with care and forethought.
  • (17) Although this method does not determine the actual drug concentration per se, subversion of the monitoring procedure for many solutions would require considerable forethought and scientific knowledge.
  • (18) However, many times medical problems occur which no amount of safety and forethought could have prevented.

Proactive


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
  • (2) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
  • (3) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
  • (4) As management of HIV infection becomes more proactive, early identification of persons at risk for PCP and initiation of preventive therapy will become more routine, and the clinical impact of P. carinii may be ameliorated.
  • (5) What I can say is that it was a disaster and a betrayal to Ludlam, and I can only apologise for not having been more proactive in defending him.
  • (6) However, this was pursued at the expense of proactive protection.
  • (7) Health science schools must be more aggressive in their approaches to dealing with smoking prevention and cessation, and assume a more proactive leadership role toward achieving a smoke-free environment.
  • (8) However, their errors on the latter were not typical of patients with frontal lesions, and they performed normally on a letter fluency task and exhibited normal release from proactive interference.
  • (9) Without proactive measures, they are excluded from emergency care.
  • (10) Diamond stressed that Barclays had "voluntarily and proactively disclosed to HRMC" the scheme it had used when buying back its debt in "a tax efficient matter".
  • (11) Liverpool have taken a proactive stance on the latest unseemly episode to involve Suárez, in contrast to the fall-out to last season's controversy with Patrice Evra when he received an eight-match suspension and £40,000 fine for using racially abusive language against the Manchester United defender.
  • (12) Progressive steps set out include listing all expenditure over £250; proactively circulating information regularly requested through Freedom of Information; and openly publishing more contracts.
  • (13) As predicted, release from proactive inhibition was found with shifts from ambiguous colors to names as well as with shifts from names to the ambiguous colors.
  • (14) "Rather than simply asking the teaching staff – who are already incredibly busy – we took it upon ourselves to try to remedy the problems in a bid to be more proactive about personal development and experience.
  • (15) The task employed was a modification of the release from proactive inhibition technique similar to that used by Wickens, Born, and Allen (1963).
  • (16) Despite the buoyant jobs market, this week’s jobs figures recorded a rise in “inactivity”, suggesting that the drift is now from proactive jobseeking to passivity, precisely the opposite of that manifesto pledge.
  • (17) The physiological effects of stress, and the possible relationship to patients and their carers, leads the author to highlight the need for further research, and possible benefit of proactive intervention for the bereaved.
  • (18) We proactively worked with law enforcement in Massachusetts and South Carolina at the time to share information and aid their investigations.
  • (19) We are allowed to spend a significant percentage of our expenditures on lobbying and we are very proactive in lobbying for liberty-based policy, including the urgently needed pension reform.
  • (20) This united effort between leaders in practice and leaders in education enhanced the success of this proactive approach.

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