Sentences with phrase «as an afterthought by»

Center channel speakers are often considered the most underrated speakers in a home theater because they handle so much of the content yet are designed as afterthoughts by many audio brands.

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I was interviewed by the editor in chief of a major magazine once, and right as I was about to leave his office, he said, almost as if it were an afterthought, «Why don't you look at the latest issue and tell me how it could be improved?»

Privacy by design: Privacy is not something a company adds on as an afterthought; any online service that needs personal data in order to function must collect the minimum amount of data necessary for that purpose.

The primary budget objective will be to eliminate the deficit by 2015 - 16, and of course, as an afterthought, «create economic growth and jobs».

From this perspective, the reduction of persons to a multiplicity of «actual entities,» and their reconstruction as «societies,» strikes one as an afterthought forced by a «cosmological» or perhaps a «physicalistic» tendency on the part of Whitehead.

In the New Testament suffering is carried up into the heart of God himself; it is seen as no intruder in the universe, as though by some fortuity it had slipped in, or as an afterthought had been introduced as retribution.

In the older story of creation, she was even pictured as an afterthought, made not on an equality with man but as a by - product; and, along with the serpent, she was represented as responsible for Adam's fall and was specially cursed with travail in childbirth as a penalty.

Long seen as something of an afterthought to the core business of selling products, service has become a way to stand out from the crowd by focusing on solving customers» problems in the longer term,...

While Harvick had started the season by winning three of four races, it wasn't as if Truex had suddenly transformed into an afterthought, regardless of how dominant Harvick may have been.

While declaring the visits as belated and afterthought, Governor Fayose said; «Nigerians can no longer be deceived by a President who never cared for them when they needed him most.

The state's pioneering electricity deregulation statute in 1999 included, almost as an afterthought, a requirement that Texas develop 2,000 megawatts of wind power by 2009.

Furthermore, the legendary Lee acts as a mere afterthought in a sluggish narrative bogged down by a fictitious, third - rate star - crossed romance.

By the time we reach the films conclusion you will ask yourself, what was all that about as we are presented with a tragically poor and overlong ending that feels much like an afterthought, tacked on out of nowhere.

As for the land locked conflict which pits Peaches between the cool mammoth crowd and her best friend Louis (voiced by Josh Gad), it feels like an afterthought to try and keep the audience engaged on the other characters.

Malkovich easily has the most hysterical role, stealing scenes left and right, which helps to divert attention from the dreadful cover - up plot, the afterthought romance involving Victoria, Parker's inability to convey any sort of believable reaction, and questions of probability — such as how a monstrous cannon on a tripod can be set up in the parking garage where the Vice President is campaigning, without attracting any attention by the hundreds of security team members scurrying about.

Drawn by Jack Kirby as an afterthought for a story that was already plotted; writer Stan Lee immediately fell in love with The Silver Surfer, and for years would allow nobody else to create his inimitably high minded dialogue.

The best — by far — young adult movies, the Harry Potter series, had romance only as an afterthought, and only between two of the secondary characters, who seemed genuinely surprised and flabbergasted to find themselves in love during all the commotion.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

Peter McDermott, Julia Johnson Rothenberg, and Karyn Lacey have documented as being treated as afterthoughts and worse by traditional districts, the people who need school choice the most and the least likely to have it.

I will not go into spoiler - level detail, but while the initial outlook suggested that the story would end up a Final Fantasy IV - style afterthought, it ended up being the game's strong suit as a band of adventurers sought to destroy an ancient enemy and repair a world fragmented by a 1000 year - old war.

This means that instead of a direct narrative, Dark Souls 2 treats the story as an afterthought to staying alive, something that just adds to the games confusion by design motif.

style afterthought, it ended up being the game's strong suit as a band of adventurers sought to destroy an ancient enemy and repair a world fragmented by a 1000 year - old war.

In fact, the signature performance documentation seemed an afterthought (as virtually anything relegated to the space's misbegotten working corridor «gallery» inevitably does), here represented simply by a trio of photographs, all 2010, depicting actions in which different chairs are «worn» in ways that torque and distort the subjects» bodies.

Bracketed chronologically by Rosler's well - known photo - text work The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974/75) and her highly influential essay In, around and afterthoughts (on documentary photography)(1981), this series takes its place alongside Rosler's photographs of airports, roads, shop windows, and public transportation as part of a career - long photographic practice.

The indicators to measure the success of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were an afterthought devised by UN officials «in a dark room in New York and thrust down countries» throats» and, as such, were a lost opportunity, says Guido Schmidt - Traub, executive director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).

Law enforcement, including park protection and monitoring, may suffer from lack of funding, while «green» initiatives by governments and private entities that are «nice to have» in times of plenty) become an afterthought as the economy sours.

Sadly, outdoor play is often neglected by parents and educators, seen as an afterthought or an inconvenience after a full schedule of extracurricular activities has been accomplished.

This notion is fortified by the remarks made by the Court, seemingly as an afterthought, in paragraphs 48 and 49 of the judgment in the case of X and X, where the Court notes that a decision to allow third - country nationals to lodging applications for visas on the basis of the Visa Code in order to apply for international protection in the Member State to which they will travel would undermine the general structure of the Dublin system.

• Implement «security by design» by building security into devices at the outset, rather than as an afterthought.

Finally, I am encouraged by the development of casebooks that incorporate lawyering exercises, not as afterthoughts but as integral parts of the learning process.

Aeternity CEO: Blockchain «Really Does Not Scale» To Current Ambitions While the slew of startups promising world - changing products and services leveraging the power of Blockchain continues, the issue of putting patter into practice is still being treated by many almost as an afterthought.

By Kim Isaacs Monster Resume Expert Job seekers often spend countless hours developing their resumes and then treat their cover letters as an afterthought.