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!

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, Boyd said he wished that he had gone to Sun Records.

I would now say in retrospect that he was actually conservative, moderate and that his conclusions are trustworthy.

Originally called Semaine Internationale des Sports d ' Hiver (" International Winter Sports Week ") and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France between January 25 and February 5, 1924, organized by the French Olympic Committee, were in retrospect designated by the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) as the I Olympic Winter Games.

A year after Consciousness Explained was published, Dennett noted " I wish in retrospect that I'd been more daring, since the effects are stronger than I claimed ".

The extra " e ," according to Dionne, " was the worst thing I could have done in retrospect, and in 1975 I finally got rid of that damn ' e ' and became ' Dionne Warwick ' again.

Friedman responded to criticism by writing: " In retrospect I probably should have used a more precise term like ‘ engineered ’ by the Israel lobby -- a term that does not suggest grand conspiracy theories that I don ’ t subscribe to .”

I supported the Iraq War and ( although I feel kind of silly about it in retrospect ) the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

The race is in retrospect sometimes referred to as the I Grand Prix de l ' ACF.

The Belle Époque was named, in retrospect, when it began to be considered a " golden age " in contrast to the horrors of World War I.

In retrospect this sounds like a futile thing to attempt, but I think I wound up pulling it off better than I ever thought I would.

If you think Terayama's poem uses a child's game to express in hyperbolic metaphor how, in retrospect, life is short, and nothing more, then this would indeed work as a senryū.

Looking back at the McCarthy era over 40 years later as an interviewee in the film Arguing the World, Glazer reflected on the stance he and some other liberal anti-communists took: " Even at the time and also in retrospect we never managed to figure out a good position, one that was respectable and moral and responsive to all the complicated issues raised ... I still don't think we have one.

" I think in retrospect the biggest mistake made in the whole project was the public release of the Line-Mode Browser.

In retrospect, however, he paid tribute to these efforts to set a new direction for architecture: " I think it is due to these young men of the 80s that the arts were rescued from the paralysing conventions of the Victorian era ".

Grant, asked in a 2003 Times interview about how he viewed his encounter with Thompson in retrospect, said, " I think, ultimately, the pros and cons about evened out, actually.

Francesa said, " In retrospect, I think it set us off on a bad path that last year.

The term may be used with certainty only in retrospect when share prices have since crashed.

In such a system, with retrospect it is clear that a full-scale invasion and ultimate annexation was inevitable.

In retrospect, mainly positive assessments of his chancellorship prevail, not only with the German public, which voted him the " greatest German of all time " in a 2003 television poll, but even with some of today's left-wing intellectuals, who praise his unconditional commitment to western-style democracy and European integration.

This pattern began with his first feature film, marking the beginning of The Europa Trilogy, though he claims a trilogy was not initially planned, instead being applied to the films in retrospect.

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.

In retrospect, his illness might be diagnosed as a heart-rhythm-problem and / or a mild form of familial dysautonomia, a hereditary disease of Ashkenazi Jews, which often brings with it a curvature of the spine and epilepsy-like symptoms in times of stress.

Rouse's innovative business vision looked obvious in retrospect, but it was a bold, contrarian move with few supporters at the outset.

In retrospect, Stone felt that Young was right and he should have swapped Hannah's role with hers.

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.

Though in retrospect it has been regarded as one of the best serials from Doctor Who classic run, initial reception to it was not as positive, with criticism to its humorous tone.

In retrospect, the scientific value of the debate lies more in providing examples that a cladistic methodology is not incompatible with an overall phenetical scientific doctrine, and that thus, simply because some study " uses cladistics ", it does not guarantee superior results.

From the perspective of the present day, the first three sub-groups look in retrospect like separate branches, each with its own traditions, though some degree of merger is taking place as Spanish and Portuguese congregations increasingly include Jews of other backgrounds.

The debut was not popular with rock critics ( especially in the USA where a Rolling Stone reviewer infamously promised to commit suicide " if this band makes it ") but in retrospect the attitude towards it changed.

The Sea of Light album ( 1995 ) produced by the band along with Kalle Trapp was well received and in retrospect is seen as the band's return to form, the key to success being ( according to critic Donald A. Guarisco ) the way it " forsook the ill-judged pop metal stylings of albums like Equator for a return to the gothic-tinged old-school metal style that highlighted classic Uriah Heep albums like Look at Yourself ".

Reportedly the poet Alphonse de Lamartine also fell in love with her, and she was the inspiration for Elvire in his 1820 autobiographical Poetic Meditation " Le Lac " (" The Lake "), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man.

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.

The French public's nostalgia for the Belle Epoque period was based largely on the peace and prosperity connected with it in retrospect.

In retrospect, album tracks such as " Debaser ", " Wave of Mutilation ", " Monkey Gone to Heaven ", " Gouge Away ", and " Hey " are highly acclaimed by critics, while the album, along with debut LP Surfer Rosa, is often seen as the band's strongest work.