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subsequent
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
▪ There is no evidence that either type is more potent as a guide to subsequent action.
▪ The particular thoughts of the global mindand its subsequent actions-will be out of our control and beyond our understanding.
▪ The distinctive nature of Ends is further reinforced by the subsequent actions of club officials and police.
▪ Methods of evaluation and subsequent action. 5.
career
▪ Initial results have led to further exploration of the subsequent careers of nurses.
▪ As she reminisces on camera, she also recalls her early days of stardom as an actress and her subsequent career.
▪ In the context of de Gaulle's subsequent career, it would be difficult to exaggerate the significance of the war years.
▪ He very soon diversified, however, and his subsequent career included investigations in many areas.
▪ She had escaped education until she was fourteen, and her subsequent career had not been structured or sensible.
▪ The story of his subsequent career is an unusually dramatic one.
▪ For some postgraduates, their chosen course or research specialism may form a natural stepping-stone into a subsequent career.
case
▪ It should be followed in all subsequent cases.
▪ In two subsequent cases, however, federal appeals courts have given greater weight to the rights of teachers.
▪ Perhaps because of this the courts have in subsequent cases generally declined to follow Lord Macmillan's view.
▪ That portion of the decision in Roe has been given too little acknowledgement and implementation by the Court in its subsequent cases.
▪ The question has given rise to much debate in subsequent cases and in academic writings.
▪ Although this formulation has been referred to in subsequent cases it has not been adopted as laying down an all embracing test.
▪ As we shall see in subsequent case studies, this problem is likely to reappear.
▪ The duration and nature of this disability has been the subject of comment in subsequent cases.
change
▪ Many Acts allow governments to promote subsequent changes and new regulations.
▪ The impact of subsequent changes in accounting standards or legislation on the above consistent accounting policies requirement.
▪ Such conflicts may increase the risk of depression but be resolved by a subsequent change in employment status.
▪ The Association's view was influenced by war-time scarcities, and there have been subsequent changes in the structure of the industry.
▪ They found evidence of a positive relationship between the basis and subsequent changes in the spot price for both indices.
chapter
▪ This controversy will be discussed in more detail in subsequent chapters.
▪ Additional stories will come in subsequent chapters.
▪ Some of the applications will be examined in more detail in subsequent chapters.
▪ As we shall see in a subsequent chapter there is good evidence for this optimism.
▪ It is this pressure for change and its implications that subsequent chapters will explore.
▪ Descriptions of how this is done are found in subsequent chapters.
▪ Indeed in subsequent chapters I shall again be concerned almost entirely with the way in which stimulus representations are modified by experience.
▪ A reconsideration of these moves us on to a more analytical plane, and points the way forward to discussion in subsequent chapters.
decision
▪ A classic example of cognitive processes is that of animal memory and the demonstration of subsequent decisions based thereon.
▪ The Treaty of Rome and the subsequent decisions of the member Governments provide for a series of further steps.
▪ Delegates are regarded as mandated by those who elect them to support specific policies and to return to explain their subsequent decisions.
▪ However, the approach taken to each case in subsequent decisions has been entirely different.
▪ But that debate and subsequent decision has been put off until October, when supporters of ban expect to win.
development
▪ We have, however, already noted that there is a difference in subsequent developments within the chaotic zone.
▪ Instead, we will examine the basic features of this philosophy and its influence upon subsequent developments in mathematics and astronomy.
▪ Although the critical Rayleigh number is independent of the Prandtl number, subsequent developments are not.
▪ While many of the subsequent developments are to be welcomed, certain cautionary notes should be sounded.
▪ In 1861-2 a constitutional crisis arose, whose outcome fundamentally affected subsequent developments.
▪ Several factors are responsible for recurrent exposure of the distal oesophagus to gastric contents and the subsequent development of reflux oesophagitis.
▪ We have also to show that the gradient influences subsequent development.
event
▪ The subsequent events that lead to the rupture of these abnormal vessels are unclear.
▪ There is neither a direct statement nor a suggestion that Chronos is ever absent from subsequent events.
▪ Anyway, the Hillary Clinton bashers claimed justification in subsequent events.
▪ And subsequent events had shown just how much more.
▪ From subsequent events, it would appear that Mr. Marriott was given an appointment in electrical engineering.
▪ The Bridge disaster, along with the subsequent events on Moloch, had thrown Piper's carefully calculated schedules into complete disarray.
▪ If he isn't given anything, the subsequent events occur in much the same manner anyway.
generation
▪ That the apostle Paul thought of his letters to his churches as constituting inspired revelation to instruct all subsequent generations is unlikely.
▪ This concern has appeared in subsequent generations.
▪ This usually takes the form of obsessively pursuing the minutiae of experimental phenomena and theories that leave a subsequent generation cold.
▪ It is the story of the failures of one generation written for the enlightenment of a subsequent generation.
▪ A period when a killer volcano threatens to erupt and in the end does not is a non-event to subsequent generations.
▪ He would have been amazed to learn that subsequent generations would make such stuff the foundation of dogmas.
history
▪ It changed hands again several times but its subsequent history is of no consequence to this narrative.
▪ Indeed, if the stroke were a vigorous one, all kinds of subsequent histories might potentially unfold upon the table.
▪ It is of great significance for the subsequent history of anthropological thinking.
▪ The subsequent history of the amphibians includes a further development of terrestrial forms, but others remained wholly or partly aqueous.
▪ Their subsequent history as hired servants is one of exploitation and abuse.
investigation
▪ The complaints must be made to the police themselves in the first instance and all subsequent investigations are undertaken by police officers.
▪ The Museum of Transport is housed in the Kelvin Hall and subsequent investigation revealed that 3 cars were infested.
▪ If we had no rights of participation in the subsequent investigation, we would have no reliable means of obtaining the information.
meeting
▪ At subsequent meetings efforts could be made to reduce this quota further.
▪ The winning coalition of line managers would become prophetic as they were to become more dominant in subsequent meetings.
▪ These offers should be based on the contents of the memorandum and any information obtained from subsequent meetings.
▪ Mr Barrett informed the police and tape-recorded subsequent meetings.
▪ The memorandum was remitted to the officers of both bodies for detailed consideration and report at a subsequent meeting.
▪ Three themes were pinpointed and discussed in subsequent meetings.
▪ At subsequent meetings Britain attempted to divert the discussions towards its favoured position of a permanent committee of foreign ministers.
▪ This is generally observed at the first meeting and to a somewhat lesser extent at subsequent meetings.
stage
▪ As set out below, more detailed valuations will be undertaken for actual targets at subsequent stages in the deal process.
▪ Chapters 9, 10, and 11 describe each of the subsequent stages in the change process at Mega.
▪ But our first experiment found that he neglects the left side of perceptual figures at a subsequent stage of attending to them.
▪ Where a guardian ad litem is not appointed initially there is power to appoint at any subsequent stage in the proceedings.
▪ Explicit symmetry judgements require a subsequent stage of attending to perceptual figures, at which the patient neglects left-sided information.
▪ Budgets and terms of reference for each subsequent stage of assistance will be agreed with yourselves before starting an assignment.
▪ These potentialities are successively narrowed down in subsequent stages of development.
study
▪ In this and subsequent studies seven point scales replace the previous 20 point scale.
▪ Most subsequent studies have shown the difficulty of measuring the price response of demand.
▪ This energy related universal relationship has been confirmed by many subsequent studies.
▪ These had a major impact in Britain and elsewhere and form the beginning of subsequent studies.
use
▪ A promising approach is to require the information-gatherer to gain permission for subsequent use.
▪ Furthermore, many patients given streptokinase produce neutralising antibodies after the first exposure, which reduces effectiveness on subsequent use.
▪ This in turn led to increased degradation that has been exacerbated by the subsequent use of marginal lands for cultivation.
▪ The ones that are declared as inputting variables are used only for input and subsequent use in expressions.
work
▪ This approach she adopted in all her subsequent work thereby introducing a revolutionary style of attack on problems of algebra.
▪ But could you cast it that way in the first place and save the subsequent work?
▪ In many cases it will also repay you, in subsequent work saved, to register the title to the property.
▪ This and subsequent work contributed significantly to the current understanding of hazards from chemical plants and lead to special legislation.
▪ In his subsequent work, the connection between the two would remain profoundly equivocal.
▪ Much subsequent work has tended to confirm both Thorns's theoretically based and Pahl's empirically based conclusions.
year
▪ Relevance Lost opened the debate, and in the subsequent years many authors have followed to offer similar evidence.
▪ He gains another month of severance each subsequent year.
▪ In the subsequent years they have appeared in losing finals against Tyrone 1984, Derry 1987 and Donegal 1990.
▪ In subsequent years, the number of patients in the trial were too small to compare mean annual costs.
▪ In other words, cash limits were not expected to be adjusted during the subsequent year to take account of inflation.
▪ In these and the immediate subsequent years Gilman painted the well-known portraits of his landlady, Mrs Mounter, with her teapot.
▪ Old-age pensioners will constitute 15 percent of the population - a figure expected to rise steeply in subsequent years.
▪ As such she became integral to international strategic thinking and power politics in subsequent years.
years
▪ Relevance Lost opened the debate, and in the subsequent years many authors have followed to offer similar evidence.
▪ In subsequent years, school districts would have the option of testing in both languages.
▪ In subsequent years, the number of patients in the trial were too small to compare mean annual costs.
▪ The subsequent years were filled with roadwork, television and film appearances and little rest.
▪ In these and the immediate subsequent years Gilman painted the well-known portraits of his landlady, Mrs Mounter, with her teapot.
▪ Old-age pensioners will constitute 15 percent of the population - a figure expected to rise steeply in subsequent years.
▪ As such she became integral to international strategic thinking and power politics in subsequent years.
▪ I intend that Lanarkshire Development Agency should continue to receive special additional funding in subsequent years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Subsequent investigations did not uncover any new evidence.
▪ Many of Marx's theories were disproved by subsequent events.
▪ The first meeting will be in the City Hall, but all subsequent meetings will be held in the school.
▪ These skills were then handed down to subsequent generations of craftsmen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the first, each subsequent divorce becomes statistically more likely than the one before.
▪ In other words, cash limits were not expected to be adjusted during the subsequent year to take account of inflation.
▪ It is thought that uric acid crystals serve as a nidus for calcium oxalate crystallization resulting in subsequent stone formation.
▪ Therefore, it is likely that subsequent empirical studies will confirm this negative relationship for index futures.
▪ They are placed here mainly for your enjoyment and for subsequent discussion with friends and teachers.
▪ What will the impact be of this on subsequent rehabilitation, having had the same stress of acute infarct?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subsequent

Subsequent \Sub"se*quent\, a. [L. subsequens, -entis, p. pr. of subsequi to follow, succeed: cf. F. subs['e]quent. See Sue to follow.]

  1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.

  2. Following in order of place; succeeding; as, a subsequent clause in a treaty. ``The subsequent words come on before the precedent vanish.''
    --Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subsequent

"following in time, later," mid-15c., from Middle French subsequent (14c.) and directly from Latin subsequentem (nominative subsequens), present participle of subsequi "come after in time, follow closely," figuratively "imitate, conform to," from sub "closely, up to" (see sub-) + sequi "follow" (see suit (n.)). Related: Subsequently; subsequential.

Wiktionary
subsequent

a. 1 Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely. 2 Following in order of place; succeeding.

WordNet
subsequent

adj. following in time or order; "subsequent developments" [ant: antecedent]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "subsequent".

Lucile is thought to have committed suicide, and will note that the first Chateaubriand allusion in the novel refers only to Lucette, and that every subsequent allusion also involves Lucette or prefigures her death.

If on any river which winds through alluvial plains a jetty is so constructed as to deflect the stream at any point, the course which it follows will be altered during its subsequent flow, it may be, for the distance of hundreds of miles.

General considerations--Vicia faba, effects of amputating the tips of the radicles--Regeneration of the tips--Effects of a short exposure of the tips to geotropic action and their subsequent amputation--Effects of amputating the tips obliquely--Effects of cauterising the tips--Effects of grease on the tips--Pisum sativum, tips of radicles cauterised transversely, and on their upper and lower sides--Phaseolus, cauterisation and grease on the tips--Gossypium--Cucurbita, tips cauterised transversely, and on their upper and lower sides--Zea, tips cauterised--Concluding remarks and summary of chapter--Advantages of the sensibility to geotropism being localised in the tips of the radicles.

On subsequent inquiries, through a circuitous channel, unnecessary to be detailed here at length, on the part of the manufacturer of the cheese, it was found, that as the supplies of anotta had been defective and of inferior quality, recourse had been had to the expedient of colouring the commodity with vermilion.

As in the case of the OH 8 foot, subsequent studies showed the OH 7 hand to be very apelike, calling into question either its attribution to Homo habilis or the generally accepted humanlike picture of Homo habilis, which the original interpretation of the OH 7 hand helped create.

Garcia was a tenor with a voice sufficiently deep to enable him to sing the barytone part of Don Giovanni in Paris and at subsequent performances in London.

And despiteor perhaps because ofhis ready opportunities for pleasure elsewhere, these had set up in him a relentless craving which her subsequent renown and exaltation had only served to inflame, for they had made him suppose the chance of actually basting her again to be gone for ever.

Divest this passage of the latent sarcasm betrayed by the subsequent tone of the whole disquisition, and it might commence a Christian history written in the most Christian spirit of candor.

Whatever it was that he had added to the band continued to augment all the music for all the subsequent acts, with jingles, rat-a-tats, hollow clunks, brassy clashes and strange, unearthly shimmers of sound.

The shackling of the Breeching and the removal of the Bolt are, therefore, deferred until the Gun has been run out in the subsequent proceedings.

In his official report General Buller states that were it not for the action of Colonel Long and the subsequent disaster to the artillery he thought that the battle might have been a successful one.

The subsequent publication of the official despatches has served little purpose, save to show that there was a want of harmony between Buller and Warren, and that the former lost all confidence in his subordinate during the course of the operations.

Gaston qui, sans doute, voulait le legitimer par mariage subsequent quand il le pourrait faire.

With this less metaphysically burdened concept of causality, it becomes perfectly obvious that mental phenomena do act as causes of subsequent mental and physical events.

Eamonn did not deny receipt of the monies or subsequent use of them, only that he and his kingdom were responsible for repaying said monies.