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In hindsight, it was handy for Hodge not to have been there, as England played appallingly in all three group matches, losing the lot and coming home disgraced.
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However, all admitted that the `` hindsight '' was not altogether lost.
In our current understanding of physics, the Bohr model is called a semi-classical model because of its quantization of angular momentum, not primarily because of its relationship with electron wavelength, which appeared in hindsight a dozen years after the Bohr model was proposed.
In hindsight — and with some help from Liddell Hart — this torrent of action was squeezed into something it never was: an operational design.
His choice of subject was prophetic: with hindsight the work appears to foretell, in the most powerful terms, the disasters that were shortly to be visited upon Europe in the Second World War.
According to Thomas Bushnell, the initial Hurd architect, their early plan was to adapt the 4. 4BSD-Lite kernel and, in hindsight, " It is now perfectly obvious to me that this would have succeeded splendidly and the world would be a very different place today ".
In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.
Although not recognized as such by Dirac at the time the equation was formulated, in hindsight the introduction of this geometric algebra represents an enormous stride forward in the development of quantum theory.
In 1987, Carey was picked up by North Melbourne after a series of events which would have left the Sydney Swans ' recruiting staff slightly red-faced in hindsight.
This was written years after the campaign and is affected by hindsight, both of the results of the battle and of the postbellum criticism of the Lost Cause authors.
With hindsight, we can discount Dana's conjecture that this contraction was due to the cooling of the Earth ( aka the cooling Earth theory ).
At the time it was seen as a continuing success story, but with hindsight it is considered that during Sir Richard Greenbury's tenure as head of the company, profit margins were pushed to untenable levels, and the loyalty of its customers was seriously eroded.
Whether the hiring of Crosby was a good idea or not in hindsight, his organisation of the campaign was credited with making the Conservative election drive much more professional and organised than at the previous election.
During the Second World War it was decided to evacuate the faculty and students of the College to University College, Nottingham, a decision which proved wise both at the time and in hindsight, since the main building was struck by an incendiary bomb and gutted in 1940 ( and not finally repaired until 1947 ).
However, this early rock ' n ' roll influence on folk rock was not recognized at the time and has only become discernable with the benefit of hindsight.
Therefore once the role of some low-dimensional Lie groups such as GL ( 2 ) in the theory of modular forms had been recognised, and with hindsight GL ( 1 ) in class field theory, the way was open at least to speculation about GL ( n ) for general n > 2.
Recent research by Carl-Gustaf Scott argues however that there never was a " crisis " and that " the crisis was created in historical hindsight in order to protect the political legacy of the Social Democratic Party and its leader Per Albin Hansson.
In hindsight, his organisation's ability to even stage the games at such short notice was a triumph and excellent fine-tuning for what was to come.
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In hindsight, the ' Graduale Triplex ' proved a great stimulus for self-study as it made important material available in a handy book.
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In fact, they went so far as to caution the writer that if he attempted to design a section exclusively for married students there should be, at the beginning, some `` hindsight '' study ; ;
Nostradamus has been credited, for the most part in hindsight ( see under ' Alternative views ' below ), with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, and the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
In hindsight, the disunion of 1929-30 and the effects of Un Cadavre had very little negative impact upon Surrealism as Breton saw it, since core figures such as Aragon, Crevel, Dalí and Buñuel remained true the idea of group action, at least for the time being.
* 14 November 2000: Michael Heseltine ( MP for Henley ), the Dome's original political supporter, states " I have seen the inside story, and of course, with hindsight, all of us would do it differently "
Having this hindsight, some ten years later, CEPT chose eight bits for framing the European E1, although as feared the extra channel is sometimes appropriated for voice or data.
Unfortunately, the business information systems of the time made this difficult to discern for the managers of the company, which may partly explain the mistakes they made from hindsight.
Both the Chief of Detectives, Jack Barrett, and the Chief of Police, Charles H. Ramsey, have since left the force in D. C. Ramsey became head of the Philadelphia Police Department ; Barrett, who became an analyst for an intelligence support firm in Arlington, Virginia, stated in hindsight that the media had imposed " enormous amounts of pressure " on the D. C. police.
In hindsight, the Lindros trade is seen as one of the most one-sided deals in sports history, and a major foundation for the Nordiques / Avalanche franchise successes over the next decade.
So the kind of things we were planning for, with the benefit of hindsight, perhaps weren't quite the right things.
Although his account of the meeting is weighted with hindsight ( when captured he sought to distance himself from the affair ), he asked Catesby what support for the Catholics would be forthcoming once the king had been killed.
Political and managerial pressure to show results led to the three APT-P trains being launched in 1981 when, in hindsight, they were not ready for service ; many technical problems persisted and reliability was not high.
However, considerations about the future were of no interest to Hegel, for whom philosophy cannot be prescriptive because it understands only in hindsight.
Perhaps with the wisdom of hindsight, Robert makes Urban advise that none but knights should go, not the old and feeble, nor priests without the permission of their bishops, " for such are more of a hindrance than aid, more of a burden than advantage ... nor ought women to set out at all, without their husbands or brothers or legal guardians.
With the benefit of hindsight, it can be said that algebraic geometry had been wrestling with two problems for a long time.
By the late ' 90s, increasing competition from better-funded national chains, leasing difficulties at some mall locations and what Bean describes in hindsight as several " bad decisions " combined to push Pizza Haven into filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Allowing for circumstances under which a person must act urgently is important to preventing hindsight bias from affecting the trier of fact.
Although Car and Driver staff wrote an article in 2009 apologizing for the inclusion of the Ford Contour on the " Ten Best " list, it was the only car the staff did not outright recant from the list, but did cite that, in hindsight, the car should have been considered too small for its price range to properly meet criteria, and that this is the likely reason for the car's failure to achieve widespread appeal.
Stanley has said that with hindsight it was " a bit stupid " that the band " didn't release another single for two and a half years ".
Suggestions that a vaccination strategy should have been practised in preference to the culling of hundreds of thousands of animals, made with the benefit of hindsight, did not help his cause, and he was demoted out to be the Minister of Work, with non-voting Cabinet rank, at the Department for Work and Pensions after the general election of 2001.
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These fossils serve as a reminder that taxonomic divisions are human constructs that have been imposed in hindsight on a continuum of variation.
In hindsight the events of 1917, starting with the February Revolution, have often been seen simply as precursors of inevitable civil war, but in fact the opposing political factions had made many attempts of their own to create a new order and prevent disintegration among the Finns.
With hindsight, critics have argued that the two types of game gradually became dichotomous as they evolved, though the two terms may still be conflated.
To an extent, attitudes and value judgments may have been superimposed on that picture with the wisdom of hindsight.
This led to many deaths from the use of chloroform that ( with hindsight ) might have been preventable.
In hindsight Tarquin might have guessed the danger from the lack of opposition to his inadvertently noisy operations and the total deficit of sentinels.
The discontent reported by the chronicles may have been the result of hindsight, however ; there is no sign that the established nobility objected to the ennoblement of Gaveston at the time.
Although Keating does have a conscience, and oftentimes does genuinely feel bad after doing certain things he knows are immoral, he only feels this way in hindsight, and doesn't allow his morals to influence current decision making.
In hindsight, the operation is also credited with defining the Western boundary of Soviet communism ; had the Allies not advanced, it is conceivable that the Soviet Union would have controlled more of Europe than it eventually did.
Speaking on RTÉ on 15 May 2010, Cowen said that, in hindsight, he should have introduced a property tax to cool the property boom.
William Gallacher, who would later become a Communist MP claimed that whilst the leaders of the rally were not seeking revolution, in hindsight they should have been.
" FBI Director William S. Sessions had made similar concessions in a written statement in 1990, stating: “ In hindsight, the eyewitness should have been interviewed and a civil rights investigation initiated ”.
He established a fiercely independent Commissioner's Office that would go on to often make both players and owners miserable with decisions that have been seen in hindsight as being in the best interests of the game.
In historical hindsight these items have come to be generically called “ sing-outs ”; yet even before the known advent of the term shanty, Richard Henry Dana referred to “ singing out .”
These fossils serve as a reminder that taxonomic divisions are human constructs that have been imposed in hindsight on a continuum of variation.
The fast-rising value of the company led many observers, in hindsight, to suggest that the real cost of the company should have been in the billions of dollars.
The archers succeeded in forcing the Scots to attack, but their initial hesitation in going on the offensive appears in hindsight to have been the correct decision.
They did not make such a mistake even though they were under severe strain and did not have the benefit of hindsight as in the above exercise.
This study is frequently referred to in definitions of the hindsight bias, and the title of the paper, “ I knew it would happen ”, may have contributed to the hindsight bias being interchangeable with the term “ knew it all along ” hypothesis.
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