What's the difference between forthwith and immediately?

Forthwith


Definition:

  • (adv.) Immediately; without delay; directly.
  • (adv.) As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 2) it was also evident that the animals have a grasp of spatial connections and can solve arranged problems forthwith.
  • (2) There, she is pretty much required reading for anyone under the age of 11 and, indeed, over, too, and I strongly urge everyone who falls into either age group to discover her forthwith.
  • (3) Any licence to the public to enter or cross this land is revoked forthwith.
  • (4) Their determination to use it as a stick to beat abortion providers with is simply one more reason why this paternalistic and meaningless little bureaucratic hoop needs to be terminated forthwith.
  • (5) They have to do it and they have to do it forthwith,” he said, claiming that many Muslims were hiding behind “political correctness” to avoid sharing their knowledge of terrorist activities to law enforcement officials.
  • (6) Therefore in patients presenting with cerebrovascular pathology even years after receiving radiation therapy, the neurologist and vascular surgeon must be prepared to recognise that extensive damage may underlie the patients' symptoms and that investigation and surgical repair may have to be undertaken forthwith if at all practicable.
  • (7) The second group had the sham-operated controls which glands were exposed only and the incision was closed forthwith.
  • (8) They should be released forthwith.” Greste, who grew up in Brisbane, has been imprisoned in Cairo since 29 December along with his al-Jazeera colleagues Fahmy and Baher Mohamed.
  • (9) But last month the PNG supreme court ruled the detention of asylum seekers and refugees to be illegal , and ordered the PNG and Australian governments to “forthwith” take all steps necessary steps to stop the practice.
  • (10) It was not clear whether he continued with his mission, but Mwanyongo said: "You stop forthwith to act as a minister of the Malawi government the moment it has been announced.
  • (11) Even were Kenya to come down to a two-child family forthwith (instead of eight), it would still reach 53 million people before growth peters out.
  • (12) A week after lifting his latest crown, Cantona, aged 30, announced that he was retiring from football forthwith.
  • (13) The war was the fault of German expansionism and aggression, London's mayor pronounced, and called for Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt to be sacked forthwith if he doubted it.
  • (14) Last week the PNG supreme court found the detention of asylum seekers to be unconstitutional and illegal , and ordered PNG and Australia to “forthwith” act to end the incarceration.
  • (15) In a letter to the rival organisation, BASW has said: "Given that you do not have a right to use the name … we must request that you cease to use this title forthwith."
  • (16) The importance of a second-look operation (SLO) in 121 patients with ovarian carcinoma stages III and IV from 1979 to 1983 is forthwith discussed.
  • (17) His players need acquainting with various truths, forthwith.
  • (18) District judge Barry Lightman had already made the order granting “possession forthwith” to Andrey Goncharenko’s representatives MCA Shipping Ltd, the registered owner of the leasehold.
  • (19) These perforations were all immediately recognized during the course of the enema and operated on forthwith; a stoma was made in four cases.
  • (20) The life and death by starvation of the right-to-die campaigner, Debbie Purdy , should be celebrated by the Commons passing the House of Lords’ “dignity in dying” bill forthwith .

Immediately


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.
  • (adv.) Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.
  • (adv.) As soon as. Cf. Directly, 8, Note.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
  • (2) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (3) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (4) However, the presence of these two molecules was restored if testosterone was supplemented immediately after orchiectomy.
  • (5) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
  • (6) Determination of plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) levels in the peripubertal female rats revealed that plasma LH was increased transiently immediately after NPY administration.
  • (7) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
  • (8) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
  • (9) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
  • (10) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
  • (11) The treatment was started either immediately or delayed for 48 h after peritoneal inoculation.
  • (12) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (13) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
  • (14) GnRH infusion produced an immediate increase in plasma LH concentrations in the mares that ovulated during the infusion period and LH levels peaked at the time of ovulation.
  • (15) Release of nsP4 from P1234 appears to be independent of the other cleavages and occurs primarily immediately after translation.
  • (16) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (17) Benzaldehyde's in cherries and cherrystones and amaretto, so it's immediately a base to pair things with."
  • (18) Since iron from fortified formulas is well absorbed during the first three months of life, even if it is not immediately used for hemoglobin formation, an inccrease in the iron stores will occur...
  • (19) The 14-fold increase in prolonged apnea frequency immediately following regurgitation supports the hypothesis for a causal relationship between apnea and regurgitation.
  • (20) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).

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