In retrospect, it was probably always likely that the leaders would have to burn the midnight oil to get Britain's deal. |
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The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seem slightly silly in retrospect. |
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In retrospect, I realize the drawbacks of the multivocal approach when it comes to giving primacy to Native perspectives. |
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In retrospect this appears so, but we have to remember that he abstracted his axioms from observation of the real world. |
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We can recollect or retrospect the nature or character of a mental event just past. |
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And it is quite apparent to me, in retrospect, that without Mostel's comic genius this might be a very wearisome play to watch. |
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In retrospect, I wish I'd got someone at the other end of the room to call me when he set off. |
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In retrospect, he joins the long list of those who verbally dueled with George and came out worsted. |
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Probably not, but in retrospect I take satisfaction in the thought that our ritual for choosing teams was algorithmically well-founded. |
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In retrospect, I should have rescheduled our session that day, or at least provided better direction during the session. |
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The subject of this research was a retrospect of events, which happened during the thirties and first half of the forties. |
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The play is a retrospect, an incomplete remembrance of a summer some 40 years past, trivia recalled, major events trivialized. |
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Only a tiny fragment of the age is treated here and the retrospect is fairly myopic. |
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As most of the passengers were settling down, Elf began a retrospect of the events of the past months. |
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If this doctrine be correct, it should be borne out by a retrospect of history. |
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Gradually I began to regain my calm, and the whole adventure seemed dim and almost humorous in retrospect. |
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As economists and traders would agree, the most accurate insight into trends is viewed in retrospect. |
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Looking back at my junior high years, most of the things that felt like a big deal at the time seem trivial in retrospect. |
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You wonder if perhaps, in retrospect, he wished he had stayed in the wings. |
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Is there anything about it that you would have done differently, in retrospect? |
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In retrospect, it seems ever more likely that our mid-Nineties aging into the Coen Brothers coincided with the apex of their careers. |
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The themes that dominate our pop culture are often only truly apparent in retrospect. |
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In retrospect, perhaps I should have asked him to speak Rohingya. But what he said is more important than what language he spoke. |
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The horse did not look himself before the race, and in retrospect he should not have taken part. |
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His recognition that her novels scrupulously avoid retrospect captures something fundamental about her departure from 18th-century narrative. |
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Only in retrospect did we become aware how lax US airport security had become. |
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I tossed and turned, not due to any specific problem, but in retrospect, I realize I was worried about him going to school. |
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In retrospect, it now appears unadvisable for owners to travel with their dogs to Thailand until clearing procedures become more humane. |
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It is hard in retrospect to think quite how we contrived to slalom through last week. |
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In retrospect, the most shocking thing was the way the police treated the violence as nothing. |
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Even then, there are hints of Derek's darkness that are only obvious in retrospect. |
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In fact in retrospect, he is a much more absorbing artist than the old girl herself. |
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In retrospect, he can see that far from hindering him the college authorities gave him every assistance. |
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I have the strong suspicion that 2005 in retrospect will look like a pivotal year. |
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A fad is a short lived mania, of no apparent rationale that in retrospect looks pretty silly. |
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Adam accepted, although, in retrospect, he rather gave the impression that it was he who was doing me a favour. |
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In retrospect, drinking industrial quantities of beer was maybe not the best thing to do while still convalescing. |
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In retrospect, I remember the quirks about the day and how not everything was picture-perfect. |
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A chance remark by trainer Peter Niven a few weeks ago worried me then, and concerns me even more in retrospect. |
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In retrospect, the decision seems to have been a gratuitous gesture in the direction of relevance and contemporaneity. |
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In retrospect, these were classic weasel words used routinely by politicians covering themselves. |
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I'm sure, in retrospect, that it was a case of remembering the hits and forgetting the misses. |
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In retrospect, the movie almost reads like a stealth defense of creation science. |
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While I don't think it had anything to do with the speed of my passage, it certainly adds a frisson to the ride in retrospect. |
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In retrospect, Leonard Cohen's Death of a Lady's Man from '77 is pricelessly charming. |
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In retrospect it as probably the most defining of many defining moments in this semi final. |
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In retrospect, it probably should not have been a surprise that volcanoes are prone to collapse. |
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In retrospect, I think one of the things we didn't have is that we didn't have any political pull. |
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But in retrospect that was because my uncle and cousin epitomise disorganisation and, much as I love them, laziness. |
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It appears in retrospect that we simply did not have enough troops on the ground at that time to guard those ammunition dumps. |
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And in retrospect, Beverly was the first theatrical embodiment of an Essex Girl, a phenomenon that flowered more than a decade later. |
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Baino is the most genial, laughing at situations that, in retrospect, probably drove him to drink. |
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In retrospect, he chalked up his past obsession with Charlotte to puppy love, and wanting her simply because she belonged to his brother. |
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While always judged in retrospect in terms of their ability to predict a result, pollsters are at pains to emphasise that their numbers should never be regarded as predictive. |
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The incremental changes, if any, will be more obvious in retrospect. |
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He also argues that one of the problems with black swans is that, although they are prospectively unpredictable, in retrospect they look like they could have been foreseen. |
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Sallust's last work, the Histories, was annalistic. It covered events from 78, perhaps continuing Cornelius Sisenna, though it included a retrospect of earlier events. |
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In retrospect, the recruitment email sounded pretty sketchy. |
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The cultural context in which Dickens worked demanded both a retrospect and a direct response to the multifariousness and disconnectedness of modern urbanized life. |
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In retrospect, it's clear that we regarded that as an error on their part. |
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Yet in retrospect, it is clear that problems were arising even then. |
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In retrospect, I could have tried some montage of a tea packet with the skull and crossbones, or maybe picked something out from the perforations in a tea-bag. |
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A Vietnam purple heart, he would in retrospect have engaged with the Viet Cong. |
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It was only in retrospect that her school years seemed dull. |
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The balance is just right and in retrospect, it seems bizarre that this film was in danger of not being released after current events over the past few years. |
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In retrospect, the screen, while labor intensive, was quite straightforward and could be applied to other embryonic lethal genes with a clear cuticle phenotype. |
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Just as he was about to make what, in retrospect, can be identified as his breakthrough, he detoured into a series of conceptual works involving photocopiers and fax machines. |
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But with the clarity of retrospect, it already showed signs of the possessiveness and jealousy that would follow years later. |
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Only in retrospect can one discern some of the logic at work. |
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In retrospect, the objective was good, but the timing was not good as we were in a year-long bear market rally where the bulls made money and the bears did not. |
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In retrospect, it looks like Hicks, Gillett, and the Glazers purchased more than they bargained for. |
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Frankly, in retrospect, to be a groupie attached to me or Woody on those nights, you would have needed the patience of a saint. |
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In retrospect, 2009 and 2010 were halcyon days in the Middle East, now that we seem just one horseman short of an apocalypse. |
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He struck many people there, at the time, not in retrospect, as arrogant and cold. |
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It was a strange world, or seems so in retrospect, built as it was of equal parts meritocracy and autocracy. |
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It was something that bothered me a little back then, but in retrospect it was one of the biggest mistakes of the original game. |
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To say this is not to ignore its radical character, especially in retrospect. |
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We did not intend to cause any offense, but in retrospect we realize that it was insensitive. |
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The general reaction among his teammates was congratulatory and warm, but in retrospect surprisingly muted. |
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In retrospect, my conversations reinforced a few very general maxims. |
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In retrospect, Presley's wiggles seem perfectly suited to a medium that showed the movements and performance styles that radio listeners could only imagine. |
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In retrospect, we probably should have had some red flags on that. |
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In retrospect, the hunting expedition was not even physically exhausting. |
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One thing that seems notable in retrospect is the book Lanza made as part of a class project in the fifth grade. |
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Black Oxen is a reminder of the healthy benefits of cynicism, and in retrospect served as an early warning to an ebullient age. |
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Trying to expand the business into the Middle East was doomed to failure. In retrospect, we shouldn't have bothered. |
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In retrospect, the rapidity of infrastructure reconstruction appears astonishing. |
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In retrospect, 'Wild Horses' is a thuddingly boring song when not being done by the Stones. |
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This might be seen in retrospect as the moment when we first saw the birth pangs of the Lebanese citizen. |
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We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements. |
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Joy in the boom in homegrown peppily painted pictures is not, however, universally applauded, especially in retrospect. |
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In retrospect, we may believe that Joe McCarthy was a creep and the HUAC was out of control, but they were right sometimes. |
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It was noted in retrospect that human erythrocytes would not pass through the capillaries of a calf, goat, or sheep heterograft organ. |
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In retrospect, the Roman domination of Britain is generally considered to be positive. |
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In architecture, there have been several Greek Revivals, which seem more inspired in retrospect by Roman architecture than Greek. |
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Looking at the conference in retrospect, there is much to approve and yet much to regret. |
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Parker approved of Nelson's actions in retrospect, and Nelson was given the honour of going into Copenhagen the next day to open formal negotiations. |
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In retrospect, she was diagnosed as having bulimia, a condition in which people feel guilty about eating so induce vomiting right after eating thus becoming malnourished. |
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Writing when she was 35, Heidenreich wrote in retrospect about her childhood as a private memory and dedicated her diary to her husband, a Swabian pastor. |
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They became known in retrospect for their massive hunting and fighting dog of Molosser type, the Alaunt, which they apparently introduced to Europe. |
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And at a recent revival of his 1999 work Corybantic Ecstasies at the Boston Ballet, he saw plenty of choreography he would have chucked in retrospect. |
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In retrospect, though, it's a beautifully restrained, hazy drug trip of a record that ended up being unjustly labeled as a snoozy departure from their earlier sound. |
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Whether, like Colin, in retrospect Willie Lee and Baptist would feel that what has vanished was greater than what was achieved, is not something we can predict. |
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