Sentences with phrase «mere after thought»

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A discouraging thought for job seekers: Sometimes competition for a position is so fierce that an HR person — mere human, after all — can not possibly eyeball them all.

Which will now be harder, because paying for Solar City in stock — and hence diluting existing shareholders substantially — mere weeks after a big equity offering will make investors to whom Musk will have to sell stock in the future to meet his voracious needs for money think twice: will he take their money then dilute them again a few weeks or months later?

So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale.

As it turned out, I honestly did not expect them to allow the VIX much above 15 but it actually went to 49.61 and did so in a mere three weeks after I positioned myself for an upside «probe» in volatility without thinking it would be an upside EXPLOSION in volatility.

Mere days after comic book fans rejoiced at the thought of television's best bald - headed baddie taking the on the role of the...

However, after reading Dr. Al Mohler's excellent reflections on Mrs. Osteen's faux pas («The Osteen Predicament — Mere Happiness Can not Bear the Weight of the Gospel,» Sept. 3), I gave the matter more thought.

It is hoped that by pursuing certain lines of thought such as those suggested in this chapter, some readers will come to see some new dimensions of the truth of the classic statement by «William James quoted earlier concerning alcohol: «Not through mere perversity do men run after it.»

Let's place aside the thought that, since being a footballer apparently empowers the world to hurl abuse your way on the slightest suggestion of the merest scintilla of the tiniest fraction of provocation, perhaps it's not that «lucky» a way to live your life after all.

Thought to be suffering from a mere strain in spring training, Griffey went 0 for 12 as a pinch hitter in April, and then was placed on the DL after tweaking the hamstring while grounding out on April 28.

That was Austin Dillon's thinking as he did just that mere hours after winning NASCAR's biggest race.

Sometimes I think the players are calmer than us supporters — after all they are the ones who have the control, while we are mere bystanders.

A mere 48 hours after first thinking I might be in labour.

After all, the mere thought of having an incision made to one of the most tender parts of your body — the area between the vagina and the rectum — can have you rethinking this whole pregnancy thing.

One of my first thoughts (right after feeling terribly sad for Sir Hubby, who lost his mother to cancer a mere week before our Bug was born 6 years ago) is «that is exactly how newborns must feel when they enter the world!»

CALL me a cynic if you will, but when I heard that Boeing's 787 Dreamliner had been grounded worldwide after a mere 15 months in service, my first thought was: «well, that happened sooner than I expected».

After long regarding them as agents of destruction or dismissing them as mere by - products of galaxies and stars, scientists are recalibrating their thinking.

But beyond mere social status, Norman (Richard Gere) wants to be a part of something that matters, and he thinks he's finally found it after «betting on the right horse.»

Budgetary Leap: «The Escapist» cost a mere $ 2 million, while in contrast, «Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes» was said by the studio to cost $ 93 million — low by tentpole standards, but thought at the time to be the biggest - ever jump in budget for a second - time director (though Marc Webb took the crown soon after, and Gareth Edwards will likely break the record again with «Godzilla»).

Some indie authors think that readers will appear out of thin air, throwing dollars at them mere seconds after their book is published.

Moreover, student loans usually have a mere 6 month grace period after graduation that lenders seem to think is enough time for someone to get a permanent job and a steady income.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood earned its full marks for having the audacity to be released a mere year after ACII and not only top it but also wangle in some incredibly well - thought - out multiplayer too.

After all, it's a beloved series with two amazing games in it, and the mere thought of a third title would basically set the internet on fire.

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

Although most states have come around — a mere five years or so after everyone else — to being comfortable with lawyers storing data in the cloud, that semi-forward thinking is not extended to being comfortable with lawyers not having an office.

But one day you may not like that name anymore — or maybe you thought of something far more clever mere hours after setting it up.

I made the leap many years ago, about 3 years out of college after selling (I like to think of it as Marketing floor covering, after - all that was my title... Marketing Representative... ok, I was hawking floor covering with Armstrong World Industries, a mere sales representative in the wrong industry for me).

Sometimes children even have anxiety at the mere thought of leaving their parent, and may cry for a while after they are gone.

CREA (esp after 15 years of boom) has no idea what its members want, no idea what it's members think of CREA, what they think about the business, what they REALLY think about the Mere Posting compromise with the CompBureau, no idea about the resentment the «loose - lips - sink - ships» communication approach to reaching that 3 pillars compromise created and no idea that the communication strategy of email surveys is not going to be a priority for a member with 3 - 5 A-class buyers, 2 - 7 good listings and a dozen B - class buyers!