How To Use Hindsight In A Sentence
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Hindsight is always 20/20, and once Real had the early lead, the textbook approach would have been sitting deeper, congesting the midfield to absorb the pressure and striking on the counterattack.
Barcelona's Guide to Beating Real Madrid
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Yet, as always, economics remains an exercise in hindsight, and managing the ups and downs of economic cycles a task beyond human endeavour.
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Maybe in hindsight, staying at Everton would have been a better thing.
The Sun
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With the benefit of hindsight, I prefer to be philosophical about my experience.
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With the no-doubt unintended effect of suggesting that Wallace's menace and ensuing mayhem might, in hindsight, be laughed-off like a good-ol'-boy joke, "George Wallace: Settin 'the Woods on Fire" takes part of its title, and its misguided musical leitmotif from a wacky, Hank Williams party-hearty song.
Film/Television: Lost Highways
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While such a sophisticated politician was well aware of the pitfalls involved in fiercely defending his policies and sticking unswervingly to his principles, with hindsight this decision can be seen as fatally flawed.
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To be fair, with hindsight I would not have done the masters which is currently making my life a misery.
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With very little hindsight, it is clear that he should have known this all along.
Times, Sunday Times
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With hindsight, we know how his moral instinct trumped the evidence for the war and its legality.
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Yet, as always, economics remains an exercise in hindsight, and managing the ups and downs of economic cycles a task beyond human endeavour.
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I predict that with hindsight we will discover that over the longue duree the level of antisemitic incidents will rise and fall in close correlation with the number of Muslim males aged 16-30 in the UK population.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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And everything after the fact so foreknown, the game itself sometimes already in the past while he still described it; often the afternoon papers were on the streets with the final box score while he described for his listeners the seventh-inning stretch or reported a struggle in the box seats over the recovery of a foul ball -- his foreknowledge hindsight, a coy tool of suspense: DiMaggio swings.
Style in Fiction
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If I should wander into the uncharted minefield of personal opinion it is only with the benefit of hindsight.
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In general, historians tend to portray Somerset's rise to power as logically inevitable and to cast Mary as a marginalized from the jockeying for political position that took place amongst the executor-councilors during the first two months of Edward VI's reign. 11 Hindsight makes it easy to forget that the political situation taking shape after Henry's death in late January 1547 initially appeared unstable.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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In fact the fence where a fullgrown lion and tiger are kept is so low that I (a short person at 1,65m) was able to put my arm over the fence to get an unobscured photograph (a foolish act in hindsight).
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With the benefit of hindsight, certainly.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is not said with the benefit of hindsight.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the most interesting points to emerge is a recognition that with hindsight, European radicalism has once again written itself as a form of diffusionism, its sources and impetuses exclusive unto itself.
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Playing through Iron Storm was like looking back in hindsight on a historical event.
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In hindsight, the new server has had over 150-days of uptime prior to the launch on October 1st, and we haven't had a single problem yet.
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Secretariat would go off as essentially only cofavorite with Sham; at a 3-2 price, it was, with hindsight, one of the great overlays in thoroughbred racing history.
Starr Gazing: The Gelding That Could
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In hindsight, the title browse was easier to use than the other five browse options.
Archive 2007-05-01
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He had been very smooth: in hindsight, too smooth, and he lacked the uncleansed cast of someone who had survived years in correctional warehouses.
The Big Scam
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But, in hindsight, the whole process of incubating the business within Nortel still gave us a good shot at getting rich.
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I'd like to add to our understanding of that situation by looking, in hindsight, at what was predicted with foresight before the war.
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Odd that people should eulogise hindsight, when principled foresight is a far more wonderful thing.
So just what did we go into politics for then, Danny Alexander?
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In hindsight it's clear that the battle was ideological rather than industrial.
Times, Sunday Times
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With hindsight, we'd all do things differently.
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With hindsight, they didn't seem bothered about the suggestion of a relationship, though the timing was awkward.
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The basis of the case I had prepared neither required nor anticipated such witness attendance and perhaps with hindsight I should have walked away at this stage.
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Through study and hindsight, he was able to bring his own perspective to bear on how these momentous events unfolded and changed the world in so many ways.
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The attendant physician, possibly overawed by the eminence of his charge, gave a warning which, in the wisdom of hindsight, he probably regretted for the rest of his life.
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It seems inevitable, with hindsight, that this accelerating urge to know, to understand, to absorb facts, would lead to the establishment of a major organisation.
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With the benefit of hindsight, one of the main conclusions from this paper was that as inflation and interest rates approach zero and the risk of deflation is high, the monetary and fiscal authorities must go beyond what most conventional models would suggest in order to "reflate" the economy.
2003 Investment Outlook
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In hindsight, maybe they should have been split up.
The Sun
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Asked if she never realised the danger in blindly signing documents, she said: ‘In hindsight now, I do recognise that our actions may seem as if they were unconsidered.’
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In hindsight this was already a fairly insensitive and stupid thing to do and almost entirely devoid of humour.
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So how does she feel with the benefit of hindsight?
The Sun
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In the historian's study this demon reductively combines in hindsight the phenomena, influences and tendencies of past ages.
The Times Literary Supplement
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With the benefit of hindsight , we would do things differently.
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They are constantly being retired with hindsight, recent examples being the triazine herbicides, such as atrazine and simazine, which have been shown to be endocrine disruptors.
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Petitioner himself addressed the court and stated that in "hindsight," he should not have used "that choice of words" and that he had not intended to be disruptive.
First Department
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With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that the disruption was permanent.
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In hindsight it was all a bit presumptuous.
The Sun
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All plants and animals are, with hindsight, the same because they all descend from an ancestor three billion years old.
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The staff of the Orchids tea room were so delightful that I went away beaming and saying ‘yes everything was fine’, when with hindsight the bread was plastic and the cauliflower cheese runny.
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This all seems obvious with hindsight.
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With hindsight, it was clear that something was afoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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What was initially repudiated as relentlessly ugly, hyper-violent nihilism has, in hindsight, taken on a strange air of both sly subversiveness and surprising prescience.
Chez Pazienza: Professor Koch's Psychopathy 101 Class
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In hindsight, the title seemingly refers less to a central plot element than it does the thought that the film itself is just an empty suit awaiting occupancy and, concurrently, a pulse.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Neither was much liked on release - his curmudgeonly socialism was out of step with the times - but hindsight may teach us to value them better.
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Historical hindsight offers a clarity that people at those times simply did not have.
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With hindsight, did his parents' relationship affect his own relationships with women?
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All plants and animals are, with hindsight, the same because they all descend from an ancestor three billion years old.
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With the easy wisdom of perfect hindsight, the big mistake is obvious.
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The now of Gilgamesh is a present with past and future; when Inanna courts him, he applies hindsight and foresight, listing her trail of jilted and cuckolded lovers as he rejects her.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Saddened by the law-breakers, but giddy with happiness with the additional 2-10 million dollars this will generate, Police commissioner Julien Fantino had this to say: "The only regret I have now, in hindsight, is that I didn't go after 30 over [the limit] as opposed to 50 over.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Mr. Blinder's hindsight observations of the euro-zone problems mirror the foresight of many European economists who rigorously defined the criteria for an optimum currency-zone, during the formative years of the EMU and EMS. Then, as now, the political leaders attempted to upend economic law by mandating all members to meet the optimum currency-zone criteria through "Maastricht" rules, rather than creating a currency zone from the set of countries meeting the criteria.
Europe's Problem Is Not Germany's High Productivity
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Still, whatever the case, we have to conclude that the appearance of language and its anatomical correlates was not driven by natural selection, however beneficial these innovations may appear in hindsight to have been.
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With hindsight it can be seen that by the turn of the century the European world empires had reached their zenith.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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In hindsight I see it was a clever way for the teachers to essentially spend another twenty minutes in the staff room whilst some gullible overkeen sixth former did his job for him.
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With hindsight, this was a life in hiding, which reached its nadir long after her husband died of a brain tumour.
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In hindsight, my contempt is actually mixed with pity.
Think Progress » Lesbian Constance McMillen excluded from alternative prom organized by students’ parents.
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This had followed a surprising decision to kick a penalty into the corner instead of the goal, which with the help of hindsight may well have cost the home side the game.
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Of course, hindsight suggests that the hatch giving access to the hangar from inside the hull did not need to be there.
Plane Speaking - a personal view of aviation history
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The tears that Lesley cries are the secretions of chance, of her blindness to its aberrancy, and they wash her adolescent eyes with stinging hindsight.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
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Of course, hindsight suggests that the hatch giving access to the hangar from inside the hull did not need to be there.
Plane Speaking - a personal view of aviation history
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As an exercise in statesmanship, perhaps Powell could, with the benefit of hindsight, revise the text of his speech to reflect what was supportable sustantively and present the revised speech to the American public so that the public could determine whether it would be appropriate for him to resign.
Balkinization
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With hindsight, was such hyperbole a little over the top?
Times, Sunday Times
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He admitted that with the benefit of hindsight the original launch had not been large enough.
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It is true that past scientific orthodoxies have themselves inspired policies that hindsight reveals to be seriously flawed.
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Their first scheme was deemed, in hindsight, a mistake.
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The part that amazed me most, in hindsight, is just how wildly vocal and open he was about it.
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With the benefit of hindsight, it is a view now easily ridiculed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Studying two initiatives in a single organization limits the ability to generalize, and retrospective accounts are subject to hindsight bias.
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I decided to write; but I feel, with hindsight, that I was sometimes careless in describing events and people and what I wrote was twisted - and I 'incriminated' people, those already detained and those not yet arrested, in my efforts to protect them.
Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
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With the benefit of hindsight , we would do things differently.
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With hindsight, the disgruntled shareholders would have done better if they had kept quiet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Regarding the underlying issue, I would say that Carter in hindsight is fairly middling.
Matthew Yglesias » Jimmy Carter
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History thus cuts man down to size by reminding him of his origins: its characteristic insight is hindsight.
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If we rid ourself of hindsight and our own contemporary mindset, we can see that they had no choice but to opt for the latter.
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It's easy enough to see what we should have done, with the wisdom of hindsight.
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It was only with hindsight we realised that the primary social impact of the birth control pill was to bestow greater sexual freedom on men by virtue of increasing the pool of sexually available women.
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And with hindsight, maybe we shouldn't have.
Times, Sunday Times
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With hindsight, his position was unenviable in the extreme.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are various explanatory reasons, so obvious in hindsight that their suppression must be regarded as an original prototype of political correctness.
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Hindsight indicates this apparent munificence, touted as liberalism and entrenching constitutionally supported freedom of speech, wasn't primarily for our benefit.
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In some occupations at least, the creep of credentialism is due to our legal system and those masters of hindsight, lawyers.
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Hugh Young, fund manager, admitted that with the benefit of hindsight the original launch was not large enough.
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With hindsight, he was overestimating their desire for peace.
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With the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to criticize.
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Again with generations of hindsight, the true lost chances may have been the failure to devise a generous postwar financial settlement (through which American support might have reduced conflict between France and Germany) and the failure to weave the United States into a global institutional network (thus possibly slowing the rush to protectionist autarchy that hastened the world into depression a decade later).
How Wars end
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Odd that people should eulogise hindsight, when principled foresight is a far more wonderful thing.
So just what did we go into politics for then, Danny Alexander?
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In hindsight, maybe I was planning for going into coaching.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of these stories do seem to be romanticised hindsight as the chemist or his pupil or obituarist places the discovery in a human context that renders largely superfluous any rivals or spurious steps, or aggrandises the man into a hero.
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With the benefit of hindsight, it has acquired the power of prophecy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dough is easy to make, but hindsight suggests I could have done with a bit more guidance on the salt.
Times, Sunday Times
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He admitted that with the benefit of hindsight the original launch had not been large enough.
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To quote the American biologist Colin Pittendrigh, the whole thing is nothing but a ‘patchwork of makeshifts pieced together, as it were, from what was available when opportunity knocked, and accepted in the hindsight, not the foresight, of natural selection’.
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I also echo CrazyTrain’s highlighting of Miranda violations merely resulting in inadmissibility — makes sense in hindsight (it functions like the exclusionary rule does), but not intuitive or obvious if you haven’t thought of it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights
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You hardly need the benefit of hindsight to discern the colossal inadequacy of this kind of reasoning.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are many things we would do differently and handle differently with the benefit of hindsight.
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He narrates the action in hindsight, gazing out over that freezing white mass, a continent unvisited by humans until the 20th century.
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Of course, hindsight suggests that the hatch giving access to the hangar from inside the hull did not need to be there.
Plane Speaking - a personal view of aviation history
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The technician as such has the benefit of hindsight to predict the future.
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With the benefit of twenty-twenty hindsight, it would have been more effective if we had done a few things differently.
Reza Marashi: WikiLeaks: U.S.-Iran Relations "Now What" Moment?
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With the benefit of hindsight, it wasn't the best thing to do.
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He sees too many journalists as focused on a mythical past when things were better, at least in hindsight.
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With the benefit of hindsight, did he take an unnecessary risk by going off to a nonpublic location with a couple of shady characters?
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At the time I was inclined to think that the network of commissioning and monitoring committees was over-elaborate, but with hindsight I can see the point of it.
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With hindsight, the course I adopted proved to be the convenient and appropriate one.
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From the benefit of hindsight, it was somewhat naive on my part, assuming that anybody can do anything.
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In hindsight, we know that much of the prosperity was a bubble fueled by venal corporate criminals.
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With hindsight it might have been a costly mistake but we put the education of our students first and foremost.
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With hindsight it was a massive challenge for which there was no preparation as a journalist.
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With hindsight it is too easy to pass facile moral judgments regarding decisions made in the past.
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The staff of the Orchids tea room were so delightful that I went away beaming and saying ‘yes everything was fine’, when with hindsight the bread was plastic and the cauliflower cheese runny.
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In hindsight, he believes things came too early for him, as his club side snapped up the domestic honours.
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With the benefit of hindsight, I prefer to be philosophical about my experience.
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With the wisdom of hindsight we now know that the old-fashioned aerosol sprays were a mistake.
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It said the referee had done his best and it was easy with the benefit of sophisticated video technology and hindsight to criticise him.
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With hindsight, maybe that was the time to get this done and a new stadium built.
Times, Sunday Times
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Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, he said he was surprised that he didn't see anything wrong with the practice at the time.
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This kind of analysis is really just the product of a false hindsight that tends to see the past through the lenses of the immediate present.
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In hindsight, that book now seems the most interesting in her oeuvre.
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Maybe with hindsight you could have forced a confrontation, but you chose not to.
The Sun
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With hindsight, it encouraged me to experience romance as something haunted, even at its giddy beginning, by a teary ending.
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With the wisdom of hindsight we now know that the old-fashioned aerosol sprays were a mistake.
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Setting policy is easy with the benefit of hindsight, he said yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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In hindsight I should have just stayed longer, lay down and waited without embarrassment.
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With the benefit of hindsight we all should have seen the storm coming.
Times, Sunday Times
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Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing?
Times, Sunday Times
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You hardly need the benefit of hindsight to discern the colossal inadequacy of this kind of reasoning.
Times, Sunday Times
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In hindsight, releasing the Ben Ali cables at the exact moment that the democracy movement was taking off in Tunisia was a stroke of genius, and by declassifying further sensitive documents from around the region WikiLeaks could give a leg up to nascent democracy movements.
Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy
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She is given foresight through the benefit of hindsight.
Times, Sunday Times
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With hindsight, I now reckon that half a dozen of my fellow patients had cancer, but were ignorant of it.
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Many times I look back in hindsight and think of how I should have handled a situation.
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Notice how the two groups that opposed partition most vehemently make one think in hindsight (though only momentarily) that it was perhaps a good decision after all?
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I would imagine your son is one of the lucky majority (isn't hindsight a wonderful thing?
Times, Sunday Times
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With hindsight, he was overestimating their desire for peace.
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But 20-20 hindsight is an unfair advantage.
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Maybe, with hindsight, he should have done.
The Sun
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With hindsight one can see that historical and contemporary strands were discrete and complementary.
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My father carries on talking in this gentle voice, and with the wisdom of hindsight, I can see now that he has prepared for this carefully, and is handling the situation with great finesse and delicacy.
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The historian with the gift of hindsight might wish to counter-assert the greater benefits brought by well-planned public infrastructural investment.
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The uniqueness of 1207 has nothing to do with hindsight: it is specified in advance by the manufacturer.
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So with hindsight you were very wise to choose a bond with a guarantee.
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It is easy to criticize others when you have the benefit of hindsight.
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Or, at least, so hindsight might tell us.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nothing was remotely as exploitatively bad as Edwards 'political theater, at least seen in hindsight after the scandal broke.
Chris Weigant: My 2008 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]
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His book ends with the hope that he'll finally reach shore and hindsight will be gentle.
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With hindsight, I should have taken the job.
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Only in hindsight is it evident that they were deterrable.
Containing Iran
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These things are often much clearer in hindsight and in large hindsight as to what the occasion for persecution was.
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In hindsight it's clear that the battle was ideological rather than industrial.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now he has lost his form and hindsight suggests that he should not have been picked for either of England's past two internationals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Newspaper talk about a history of bitterness between us was something invented using hindsight.
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Stories which alter experience with the benefit of hindsight stick in the mind.
The Times Literary Supplement
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And we look back on the Virginia Tech massacre with 20-20 hindsight and recriminate ourselves about the things we should have done .
Virginia Tech Lesson: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses
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Or perhaps this is just the wisdom of hindsight, a rosy blur of sentiment cast by nostalgia over the scene.
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All of them could have offered convenient launching pads for wise disquisitions infused with the wisdom of hindsight.
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The steps he took might appear simple and obvious in hindsight, but they were far from easy at a hidebound institution seemingly intent on writing its own obituary.
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He said: 'With hindsight the neurological observations should have been done.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the most interesting points to emerge is a recognition that with hindsight, European radicalism has once again written itself as a form of diffusionism, its sources and impetuses exclusive unto itself.
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Without the benefit of hindsight Marianne's instinct was to run and join her mother on the cattle train.
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You hardly need the benefit of hindsight to discern the colossal inadequacy of this kind of reasoning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paul Rowen has switched by way of screeeching U-Turn from a "benefit of hindsight", from "not excusing the inexcusable", from praising the 1982 Yorkshire TV Alice documentary kinda fella, albeit highly confused about the safety and desirability of redeveloping the TBA Killing Fields of the Spodden Valley, to a bit of an excuser.
Asbestos in Schools: Foolish Rowen Backs Up Cyril
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In hindsight, Tung and his ministers can certainly see they could have done a better job.
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It's easy to criticise with the benefit of hindsight.
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But the report also recognises that its recommendations were made ‘with the benefit of hindsight’.
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This is not said with the benefit of hindsight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Read all about it in my Metro fronter today, which kicks off with Marion Barry saying that the control board that he once assailed as a "rape of democracy" has been in hindsight a good thing for the city.
DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 31, 2011
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Few are possessed of so little ‘hindsight’ that they cannot detect the hand of the present Dictator in a letter which the hodman wrote to a fellow laborer on Sept.3, 1902.
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All plants and animals are, with hindsight, the same because they all descend from an ancestor three billion years old.
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If we rid ourself of hindsight and our own contemporary mindset, we can see that they had no choice but to opt for the latter.
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With the benefit of hindsight, I should really have realised my limitations and done the easy walk.
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I've met one other person in my life who has related to this, although actually with hindsight I think she might just have been humouring me.
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Despite having so many professors of hindsight we are still dragged through review after review.
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With the advantage of hindsight, it is remarkable that for so many years toxicologists have largely ignored chemical speciation of metals.
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Absolutely, and in hindsight, perhaps I wish I'd just paraphrased it, not used quotes.
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Misty hindsight has led some to remember Rapido as primarily an indie-based show, perhaps eliding it with DEF II stablemate Snub TV.
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Why wait for the wisdom of hindsight to kick in when there's astrology columns to forewarn you - right?
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The perspective is one of both hindsight and foreknowledge, and the predecessor is Hamlet's father.
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With the benefit of hindsight, the result was predictable.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you get into the hindsight thing, it's very unhealthy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or was there a better solution out there, one that we can now see with the benefit of having hindsight?
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Or perhaps this is just the wisdom of hindsight, a rosy blur of sentiment cast by nostalgia over the scene.
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Many times we realise, only in hindsight, that we have been only a pawns in somebody's game.
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With hindsight, maybe that was counterproductive.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is all too easy to dismiss, with hindsight, the presumption of innocence that forms the bedrock of our system.
Times, Sunday Times
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With hindsight, were there any tell-tale signs?
Times, Sunday Times
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You hardly need the benefit of hindsight to discern the colossal inadequacy of this kind of reasoning.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the clarity of hindsight, this sort of jiggery-pokery now seems worryingly typical of WorldCom's way of doing business.
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We all do stupid things which with hindsight we can't believe we ever did.
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hindsight is always better than foresight
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In the weeks and months after her youngest son found his brother silent and unresponsive in his bed, Mary was cursed with the wisdom of hindsight.
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If Stephen Griffin's characterization of a passage from Jack Goldsmith's and Curt Bradley's foreign-relations-law casebook is correct, these two top scholars have fallen into the Michelle Malkin trap of crediting supposed "intelligence" supporting the Japanese American incarceration in World War II and of depicting the incarceration program as wrong only in hindsight.
Is That Legal?: Malkin Seeps Upward?
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With hindsight, when the 2000 election became the closest ever, the Florida shenanigans seemed prefigured in that sniggering expression, which less became the 43rd president than Alfred E.
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Debussy's quartet moves like a snake through the forest, tracing an unpredictable, yet in hindsight inevitable, path.
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If this is the case then what harm could be done except to aknowledge that in "hindsight" the position should be in place, which if I heard right, has already been done, and that should be the end of that!
WH: Social secretary will not testify before Congress
