What's the difference between inspection and introspection?

Inspection


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) No disorganization of the muscle structure was detected by polarized light and electron microscopic inspection.
  • (3) On visual inspection the nephrograms showed no focal changes.
  • (4) The letter praised the company's progress in responding to the inspection.
  • (5) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
  • (6) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
  • (7) Cable says that institutional investors would have been inspecting Royal Mail for some time, adding that it's a standard length document for an IPO of this type.
  • (8) Management of female patients includes careful inspection of the vulva with each full-skin or gynecologic examination, followed by biopsy of any suspicious lesion.
  • (9) Inspection of the individual concentration time profiles in the other subjects provided additional evidence that the 5-OH-metabolite also contributes to this effect.
  • (10) Over the years he has been through 20 Ofsted inspections, with all the anxiety – and sometimes satisfaction – that entails.
  • (11) This would end time-limited visits and introduce an inspection regime.
  • (12) Ofsted said at the time that it had not received any complaints about any of the inspections.
  • (13) The plates were viewed directly in an inverted UV microscope or were inspected and photographed bottoms up with a conventional UV microscope mounted with an old-fashioned uncorrected objective (20 X) which, because of its shorter length, permitted proper focussing.
  • (14) The inspections have already led to complaints and demands that the rules be revoked.
  • (15) Laparoscopy with artificial ascites creates a larger space between organs and makes an accurate inspection of the entire intra-peritoneal abdomen possible.
  • (16) In a number of bacteriological drinking water analyses, this property was confirmed insofar as aquatic myxobacteria could regularly be demonstrated when inspecting hygienically deficient wells or springs.
  • (17) McMillan wrote in the decision : “I am satisfied from my own inspection of the documents (particularly the watch logs) that the claims, taken together, are reasonably based and genuine.
  • (18) The inspectors were also told that the day before their August inspection a patient with a known heart problem had a cardiac arrest in a corridor while waiting for a first clinical assessment.
  • (19) Moreover, veterinary help, the necessary use of drugs, the supervision and control of AID (Agricultural Inspection Services) and RVV (Inspection Service for Meat and Meat Products) add to the already substantial costs of modern animal husbandry.
  • (20) The geometry of the elbow joint limits intra-articular inspection and the use of instruments.

Introspection


Definition:

  • (n.) A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
  • (2) To a generation of young Germans, raised under the crushing, introspective guilt of postwar Germany , the sight of such facile antics was simply incomprehensible.
  • (3) The alleged killer could not imagine how the city of Charleston, under the good and wise leadership of Mayor Riley – how the state of South Carolina, how the United States of America would respond – not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and, more importantly, with a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life.
  • (4) Man of Steel gets three stars from him, thanks largely to an opening section that "creates a plausible context for the introspection and self-doubt that dogs the adult version of [this] costumed warrior".
  • (5) There is a striking amount of national introspection in a hearteningly vibrant press.
  • (6) The people of Australia are sick to death of this introspection when there are very important, significant issues in constituencies like mine.
  • (7) While O'Dwyer's defence portrayed him as the vulnerable, introspective young man whose promising career would be derailed by extradition, prosecutors contend he is a skilled businessman who made large sums of money from a website he knew was profiting from pirated material.
  • (8) Academic medicine is entering a period of introspection created by changing patterns of health and disease and changing patterns in reimbursement and health policy.
  • (9) The first Labour MP I spoke to today put it well: “As our standing and his standing has got worse, Labour MPs talk of little else.” Party introspection, angst and fear were always on the cards for this period – it just wasn’t meant to be Labour that would suffer.
  • (10) South Africans have undergone sombre introspection of late with the economy slowing, unemployment sky highand, worst of all, violent unrest that included the killing of workers at the Lonmin platinum mine in August.
  • (11) Pharmacists can grow in a current or second career by using introspection and self-assessment and by adapting to changes that occur in the profession.
  • (12) Ex-HSBC banker denies fraud charges brought in US Snowden endorses phone case warning system Whistleblower Edward Snowden has endorsed a mobile phone case called the “introspection engine” that, he claims, will show when data is being monitored.
  • (13) Ishiguro's flawed but introspective narrators are always fascinating portraits of unusual characters: in A Pale View from the Hills, the narrator is a Japanese widow living in England, The Remains of the Day is narrated by the butler of an Nazi-sympathising English aristocrat, and a callow English private detective is the central character in When We Were Orphans.
  • (14) Michael Cavanagh, the JP Morgan executive who conducted the bank's internal investigation, opened his testimony by proudly noting that the bank had engaged in "introspection" and was "determined to be a better company because of this experience".
  • (15) This approach focuses on the "only or never" phenomenon, the parallel process, and introspective curiosity as modes of identifying the existence of countertransference responses.
  • (16) He stressed three essentials to meeting the future: an effective and introspective organization; ample participation by the membership of the specialty; and a plan.
  • (17) The results are interpreted through the theory of memory introspection proposed by Herrmann.
  • (18) This superposition of introspection and austere secrecy, of simplicity and opacity, is not new.
  • (19) It includes introspective consciousness of introspective consciousness itself.
  • (20) Steeped in introspection, ambiguity and a total lack of plausible strategic sense, the Corbynistas aren’t going anywhere.