What's the difference between future and posterity?

Future


Definition:

  • (v. i.) That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.
  • (a.) Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come.
  • (a.) The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.
  • (a.) A future tense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
  • (3) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (4) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (5) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (6) The transmission of alcoholism and its effects are thereby lessened for future generations of children of alcoholics.
  • (7) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
  • (8) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
  • (9) The data support inclusion of these residues in future CS protein vaccines.
  • (10) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (11) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) We conclude that this enzyme is essentially identical to the native enzyme and should be very useful in the future study of this important hydroxylase.
  • (14) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
  • (15) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
  • (16) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
  • (17) The patient and ventilator work ratios, and the work of breathing quantify factors which may be directly useful to the clinician and to future systems to automate weaning.
  • (18) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
  • (19) There is no doubt that new techniques in molecular biology will continue to evolve so that the goal of gene therapy for many disorders may be possible in the future.
  • (20) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.

Posterity


Definition:

  • (n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.
  • (n.) Succeeding generations; future times.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
  • (2) A picture, so they say, paints a thousand words, or in this case a poster does.
  • (3) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
  • (4) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
  • (5) A 1977 Apple II computer sits in the background, near a poster that reads "Think" – presumably a nod to Apple's "Think different" advertising campaign of the late 1990s.
  • (6) According to the NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, whose voice almost cracked with emotion as he addressed the media on Saturday evening , the “digital warning poster” featuring a picture of Brinsley and his whereabouts arrived at the data centre at 2.47pm.
  • (7) As a precociously talented young artist, his interests didn't lie with landscape or the countryside – "though I did collect frog spawn and things like that" – but more with the advertising, posters and signwriting he saw around town.
  • (8) The SNP MP John Nicolson said of Daley’s case: “His poster sales have gone up and now there are wee girls and wee boys putting his poster up on the walls.
  • (9) The genesis of much of Rousey’s criticism about the woman who ran over Gina Carano, MMA’s first poster girl, stems from this.
  • (10) It has not been possible in this review to cover all the submitted posters nor indeed all the points discussed during the workshop session.
  • (11) He will sell his country's transition from international pariah to poster boy for democratic change, trade and investment.
  • (12) Major Richard Streatfeild, 40, who the Ministry of Defence used as a "poster boy" for the war, was a commanding officer in the insurgent stronghold of Sangin during some of the fiercest fighting.
  • (13) We discovered that patients want health education in the form of both videos and leaflets, but not posters.
  • (14) Treating voters like idiots doesn't often work – so the posters with a picture of a sick baby, saying, "She needs a new cardiac facility not an alternative voting system", or of the soldier, reading, "He needs bulletproof vests, not an alternative voting system", must surely be an insult too far to the public's intelligence.
  • (15) The state of allergy to penicillins was found in the posterity of the female hamsters with both the positive and negative skin reactions on immunization during the 2nd half of the pregnancy.
  • (16) I gave the finger to the Tea Party during the Park51 protest, and spraying the poster was my way of doing the same to Pamela Geller.
  • (17) Then yesterday Osborne made everything worse by unveiling a completely contradictory poster (he does know that abolishing the "jobs tax" will increase the debt, right?)
  • (18) In Tahrir, the urban heart of the revolution where so many protesters met their end, thousands answered that call, many tearing down Shafik posters on the way.
  • (19) People in Westminster didn’t see the real picture because there were not as many 48-sheet posters as usual,” says Muirhead.
  • (20) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.