In retrospect his reign may be said to end before the situation of the Byzantine Empire became untenable.

In retrospect of those tours, Love said: " I was completely high on dope, I cannot remember much about it.

Hall used a 1 / 8 inch Tiffen Black ProMist filter for almost every scene, which he said in retrospect may not have been the best choice, as the optical steps required to blow Super 35 up for its anamorphic release print led to a slight amount of degradation ; therefore, the diffusion from the filter was not required.

In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he " can readily see that book's title might give an inadequate impression of its contents " and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.

In retrospect, she said in 1981: " I still cannot listen to it, because everything I wanted for that record, they took it away.

Harkleroad in 1998 said in retrospect: " We're dealing with a strange person, coming from a place of being a sculptor / painter, using music as his idiom.

This tendency can manifest in retrospective thinking as well: in a 2005 study, angry subjects said they thought the risks of terrorism in the year following 9 / 11 in retrospect were low, compared to what the fearful and neutral subjects thought.

In retrospect, Schreiber said in a 2008 interview, he appreciates his mother's influences, saying, " Since I've had Sasha, I've completely identified with everything my mother went through raising me ... And I think her choices were inspired.

" In retrospect, Love said that Erlandson " had a Thurston quality about him ", " dressed cool ", and was an " intensely weird, good guitarist.

Thomas said in a New York Times interview that " If I had seen miracles Hinn's ministry, I would have been happy to trumpet it ... but in retrospect, I think they do more damage to Christianity than the most committed atheist.

The duo have said that in retrospect, most of their albums have a ' feel ' of either Los Angeles or New York City, the two main bases where Becker and Fagen lived and operated ( see below ).

In retrospect, Lynch has said, " I feel bad that Fire Walk with Me did no business and that a lot of people hate the film.

In retrospect, Waters said " maybe it's just as well it wasn't used after all ".

The clerical leadership declared that " thousands have been massacred by Zionist troops ," but in retrospect it has been said that " the main casualty " of the shooting was " any hope for compromise " between the protest movement and the Shah's regime.

In a 2009 interview, Bob Stanley said that in retrospect the band " got ahead of ourselves a bit " by releasing such an uncommercial album, which " definitely could have done with a couple more obvious songs ".

Kennan acknowledged in retrospect that it was a " foolish thing for me to have said.

Bill Leader, who produced the album, said " It seems to me, in retrospect, that each day a different member of the group had decided that this was it: ' Sod this for a game of soldiers, I'm leaving the group!

In retrospect, Clark said, " I think that with music school and art school, or school in any form, there has to be some system of grading and measurement.

He said: " Obviously, there may be occasions when, in retrospect, a commander chose the wrong piece of equipment, the wrong vehicle, for the particular threat that the patrol or whatever it was encountered and we had some casualties as a result.

In retrospect, Richard M. Bissell, Jr., assistant to the CIA Director, denied that the 1954 Guatemalan coup d ’ état resulted from the conflation of private, multinational, business interests and US Government foreign policy ; he said that there “ is absolutely no reason to believe ” that the Eisenhower Administration ’ s ( 1953 – 61 ) desire to help the United Fruit Company had “ any significant role ” in deciding to depose the elected Guatemalan government of President Jacobo Árbenz.

" By the time we had resolved some of the terms ," he said, " they were really against the wall in terms of back story ... In retrospect, I should have just slept on the set because it was like sixty or seventy pages a day!

" In 2001, Officer Todd Parrick said in retrospect, " We weren't just searching for drugs.

John Serba of Allmusic said that Orchid was " quite an audacious release, a far-beyond-epic prog / death monstrosity exuding equal parts beauty and brutality -- an album so brilliant, so navel-gazingly pretentious that, in retrospect, Opeth's future greatness was a foregone conclusion.

In retrospect from 2004, William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that the film was " widely regarded as Sayles ' masterpiece ", declaring that it had " captured the zeitgeist of the ' 90s as successfully as " Chinatown " did the ' 70s ".

In retrospect, Cerny wished he had included more courses to give the game greater longevity, but extra courses would have required more time and increased hardware costs.

In retrospect, Davis wished the asterisk was changed to a different character ; the asterisk prevented the name from becoming a common crossword term and it is a wildcard character for search engines.

Ryzhkov, in retrospect, claimed that the Soviet system had " created, nursed and formed " Gorbachev, but that " long ago Gorbachev had internally rebelled against the native System.

Others, like Gang of Four, The Raincoats and Throbbing Gristle, who had little more than cult followings at the time, are seen in retrospect as significant influences on modern popular culture.

He detailed his reflections on the war in his memoirs, indicating he had learned extensively by closely observing the decisions and actions of his commanding officers, particularly admiring Zachary Taylor's methods, and in retrospect identified himself with Taylor's style.

In retrospect, scholars speculate that Harding had shown physical signs of cardiac insufficiency with congestive heart failure in the preceding weeks.

Having qualified in medicine by means of the Conjoint Diploma ( MRCS England, LRCP London ) in 1930 Bion spent seven years in psychotherapeutic training at the Tavistock Clinic, an experience he regarded, in retrospect, as having had some limitations.

The Renaissance had then overtaken Europe, overturning a system of culture that, prior to the advent of printing, was almost entirely focused on the Church and was perceived, in retrospect, as a period of ignorance and superstition.

Once Alexander had sliced the knot with a sword-stroke, his biographers claimed in retrospect that an oracle further prophesied that the one to untie the knot would become the king of Asia.

Journalist Emmanuel d ' Astier de la Vigerie observed, in retrospect, that the Résistance had been composed of social outcasts or those on the fringes of society, saying " one could only be a resister if one was maladjusted.

In retrospect, however, Warshaw stated that Spielberg's idea might have had merit.

Although this appears shortsighted in retrospect, it is important to realize that communications had been perceived as a natural monopoly for almost a century — indeed, in much of the world, telephone networks were then and still are explicitly operated as a government monopoly.

Garfield's debut had a cinematic impact difficult to conceive in retrospect.

His chief cardiologist, Dr. Ira Weiss, later stated that despite his own protestations against the Rebbe's being treated in 770, in retrospect, it had turned out to be the correct decision, and " the Rebbe, in fact received better medical care in 770 than he would have had we taken him to the hospital.

Innocent Victim, released in November 1977, " had a slight edge on Firefly ", according to Box, but still in retrospect this " blend of sharp, short rockers and pop-friendly ballads " looked like " an attempt to court the American AOR market ".

In retrospect, Wöhler's work was the beginning of the end of Berzelius's vitalist hypothesis, but only in retrospect, as Ramberg had shown.

In retrospect, he noted that it had quite a monopoly in operations and training, with a voice as a ministry in the presidential cabinet and representation in almost every facet of public life.

There is no evidence that they had knowledge of any prior inventions similar to theirs, but Drake accepts in retrospect that although he can be credited with invention, he was " probably no better than third ," behind mid-west based Newman Darby and Englishman Peter Chilvers.

In retrospect, Parun stated that Henman's greatest strength " had always been his head.

It became apparent in retrospect after the Stock Market Crash of 1929 that credit levels had become dangerously inflated.