What's the difference between forthwith and straightaway?

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 .

Straightaway


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is going to be an urgent government inquiry with recommendations and, frankly the ABC ought to take some very strong action straightaway.” When asked whose heads should roll, Abbott ended the press conference and walked away.
  • (2) Both the receptionist and her doctor recognised the danger she and her baby were in, calling paramedics straightaway.
  • (3) The aim of this study is to argue in favour of a systematic intracavernous injection of 8 mg of papaverine when the penial Doppler is carried out, enabling an increase in its diagnostic value and often a therapeutic orientation straightaway.
  • (4) Emotional reactivity was measured using the pole, straightaway and open field tests.
  • (5) They would ask themselves straightaway, why should we ... push through tough measures that might lead to the government being voted out if our debts can be written off?"
  • (6) Horses were filmed with rider by two cameras simultaneously while galloping along a straightaway.
  • (7) As far as papillomas and angiomas are concerned, they require emergency treatment, either straightaway or after a trial of medical treatment.
  • (8) My dad literally woke me up to say goodbye because he had to leave straightaway.” She remembers being escorted to the airport by Tunisian security services.
  • (9) She approached the Ikon which came on board straightaway, and then, by happy chance, the site in front of the library became available.
  • (10) Di María did not look like the world-class player we have seen either, but you cannot expect that straightaway.
  • (11) Tigers 2 - A's 0, top of the 4th And THERE Miguel Cabrera has found his power stroke, he hits a home run on an elevated Gray fastball to straightaway leftfield for his first extra-base hit of the series!
  • (12) We are submitting new claims straightaway citing Regulations 5 & 8.
  • (13) He is a great persuader, and is straightaway telling me in his generous, conspiratorial manner about how he felt when the British Council called a year ago to invite him to represent Britain in the closest the art world comes to the Olympics.
  • (14) "Look, if you were good at it straightaway you'd make us look bad!"
  • (15) If she had married, would she have had children straightaway and put her career on hold?
  • (16) The authors suggest resection and arthrodesis straightaway in dislocations.
  • (17) "Twitter will use its rich stock to buy companies straightaway, adding to its revenues and further justifying its high valuation," he said.
  • (18) A lot of the rest of his life was chaotic, but when it came to music, he could tell straightaway if someone had taken something and put it back in the wrong place."
  • (19) At the very least you may need to put in an early offer of the asking price and cross your fingers that the sellers accept it straightaway, and that a cash buyer doesn't make a similar offer.
  • (20) The model is applied to acylation, but can straightaway be extended to deacylation, and is substantiated by recent structural and kinetic data for proteinase enzyme catalysis.

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