The phrase "afterward rather" is not correct and does not form a coherent expression in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to combine two separate ideas, but they do not work together in this way.
Example: "I would prefer to discuss this afterward rather than during the meeting."
Alternatives: "later instead" or "after that".
Soon afterward, rather than give him a day in court, the government began negotiating his release.
Unfortunately, the financial analysis is all too often "pinned on" afterward, rather like the tail on the donkey in the children's game.
"The great mystery is that there seems to have been more attention on what happened on March 23 and afterward, rather than on what happened before March 23, which is the key," said a former high-ranking law enforcement official.
While the jury's somewhat silent on how dangerous it really is to microwave Styrofoam, it's probably better to heat the water separately and add it to the cup afterward, rather than risking making melted plastic for lunch.
But afterward, expectations rose.
She choreographed relatively little afterward, working rather as an adviser on dance at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris from 1978 to 1988 and actively promoting a younger generation of French contemporary dance makers, including Jean-Claude Gallotta, Maguy Marin, Régine Chopinot and Dominique Bagouet.
To a liberal, aware-of-his-own-privilege male such as myself, the worst outcome of this whole arrangement wouldn't be if I somehow found myself enjoying the proceedings resulting in some soul-searching afterward, but rather that my lack of arousal and interest could somehow be misconstrued as homophobic or sex-negative.
They did not smile as they filed into the chapel for the Mass, and the procession through the streets afterward was funereal rather than festive.
Wall Street is focusing less on this study than on a larger one in which Zytiga was used for metastatic prostate cancer, but before chemotherapy rather than afterward.
He plans to challenge incumbent lawmakers to join him during the campaign, when they are still vulnerable, rather than afterward, when they are safely ensconced in their seats.
Although the detachable scales of butterfly and moth wings facilitate their escape from the web, spiders have evolved a counterstrategy: they bite before wrapping them rather than afterward.
