Sentences with phrase «than a footnote in»

Now his career as a dramatic actor is little more than a footnote in the narrative of his life.

With a fantastic line - up of aged comedy writers and familiar faces such as Chevy Chase, John Landis, the documentary chronicles the rise and surprisingly fast fall of this modern literary giant that is more than a footnote in comedy history.

New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross (no relation to Harold), who joined the magazine in 1945 and is still, at almost a century old, an occasional contributor, is little more than a footnote in Cast of Characters, but her own book, Reporting Always is a fine collection of some of her best writing.

Meanwhile, Hilton's devaluation a few years back resulted in their points becoming no better than a footnote in travel loyalty programs, unless you enjoy chasing valuations of less than half a cent per point.

Nowadays Rare is little more than a footnote in Microsoft's gaming division.

I foresee a frightening future in which the Vita is relegated to near Wii Game Pad status, and becomes little more than a footnote in the endless PlayStation 4 revelations.

It's little more than a footnote in the grand scheme of all things Sega, but I think it's worth checking out, and I hope you will too.

Sometimes, these experiments change gaming as we know it; other times, they amount to nothing more than a footnote in gaming history.

Yet Soleri never quite entered the mainstream; he receives little more than a footnote in most histories of postwar architecture, and his work has not been surveyed in America since 1971.

It is, however, no more than another footnote in what is a philosophical, moral and legal debate of many years standing, in this jurisdiction and others.

Not exact matches

At less than 200 pages, plus a good chunk of footnotes, «Lean In» does not purport to be the end - all solution to inequality.

It ended up as nothing more than one very minor footnote lost in a sea of more pressing problems and events.

At least Author A reworded and summarized the ideas which are found in the books of Author B, but again, I feel that if most of an author's ideas and content are being pulled from the ideas of authors in other books, it is only right and fair to give them more credit than two footnotes.

With the good news that the Catholic religion is in steep decline here and losing political and legal influence it never should have had, fairly soon those definitions, and the religion itself, won't matter as anything other than a sorry footnote in history.

Winer relegated the Granville Sharp rule to obscurity for nearly a hundred years with nothing more than a disparaging mention in a footnote — sheer scholarly intimidation, and not a scintilla of actual argument.

Fry and Rostow reported that, based on evidence in service records, hom - ose - xuals were no better or worse than other soldiers and that many «performed well in various military jobs» including combat (Berube, 1990, pp. 170 - 171, footnotes omitted).

This is a big, big book of more than nine hundred pages, documented with thousands of footnotes and supplemented with a bibliographical essay of twenty - two pages in small print.

Which in the grand scheme means little and nothing more than a footnote.

Two fights erupt in an ill - tempered third period, fistic footnotes that enchant the crowd of 4,612 even more than right wing Simon Lambert's three goals.

No longer can our club be the plaything of the uber - rich or a footnote in a billionaire's banking portfolio, so any new regime must not only conduct themselves with the sort of transparency that befits one of the greatest clubs in the world, they must likewise treat our more than generous fan - base with the respect they deserve.

By the end, the Argentinian's scintillating breakaway in the build - up to Dembele's first Barcelona goal had become little more than a footnote to what was another Messi masterclass.

Footnote: Iwobi showed more strength and determination in this match than I've seen from him before and Melneny ran until he dropped.

This year's report offers little guidance on how to interpret the information in the report other than a few footnotes and a set of unidentified appendices.

These months could become a great moment in British political history, rather than a shabby footnote to a shameful month of scandal.

Osborne by contrast looked set to be little more than an embarrassing footnote in Conservative political history.

Russianoff's list of less - encumbered nation states is 30 countries long, though an asterisk guides readers to a footnote explaining that, «Nations with less than $ 10 billion in debt, of which we found 25, were excluded from this comparison as we felt this was a fair cut - off.»

Today, most people in the United States rarely think of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)-- or the rheumatic fever that causes it — as more than a historical footnote.

Those who earn less than 100 points are acknowledged in a footnote.

The commentary, by Lawrence Heaney of the Field Museum in Chicago, provides a timely reminder that Wallace was so much more than Darwin's sidekick or a footnote in the story of evolution.

By piling on one example after another of problems that have resisted the onslaughts of our very best minds, Maddox gives us a bracing affirmation that future scientists will have a lot more to do than to add footnotes to the work their predecessors did in their first three hundred years.

In his footnotes to this verse, Eliot explained that the lines «were stimulated by the account of one of the Antarctic expeditions [Ernest Shackleton's]... that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member than could actually be counted.»

213 OMB directs agencies to «operate at a minimal level until after your regular [fiscal year] appropriation is enacted» and oversees their choices to implement that direction214 to prevent a situation where a subsequently enacted regular appropriation provides less funding than the agency had expected.215 While the OMB Director provides a formula that automatically apportions amounts provided under the continuing resolution, 216 the RMOs may further limit this amount, 217 deploy footnotes to specify additional restrictions on its use, 218 and grant requests for sums beyond the automatic apportionment only in «extraordinary circumstances.»

Maybe it's more watchable if you let yourself get lost in it and pay closer attention to its themes rather than its footnotes.

Everyone else in the movie is little more than a footnote.

Her tour de force seduction of Doc, mostly performed while naked, uncorking a slow drip of role - playing, self - revilement, vulnerability, and desperate control that's indistinguishable from nihilistic abandon, expresses more about sex as a weapon and a survival strategy than a thousand footnoted treatises on the femme fatale in film noir.

The long - delayed sequel has earned no more than a small, insignificant footnote in movie history.

Not only did Wikipedia editors instantly swoop in to delete misinformation, but the entry also ended up with more information and footnotes than before Palin's comments.

The War Against Boys is a solid book, wonderfully footnoted and indexed, telling an important story, and sorely needed now, possibly more so than in 2000.

Recently, the New York City Department of Education's Education Panel (a structure more accustomed to advising than governing) voted to omit a footnote in the city school's admissions policy limiting the use of race as an admissions criteria.

Let's look at a sample composed of elementary schools that are larger than the median charter elementary enrollment, and where the foster youth population is higher than 2.26 % (The reason I chose those numbers is in footnotes) ¹.

With a cushier interior than its 200 - series compatriots and a more stylish design thanks to Italian design house Bertone, the 262C was an odd footnote in the Swedish automaker's long history.

I've got titles with extensive footnotes and language glossaries, and they're actually easier to access in ebooks than regular books — if you link to them, and link back from them to the same spot in the text.

For example, being able highlight and annotate the book without ruining it in the process, or being able to research footnote references with a single click rather than having to manually find the resource and look it up.

So the footnotes are crucial, and occasionally you'll be able to sleuth out some detail that might give you a big advantage, but I think more often than not, the big picture (in other words, the key variables that matter) is more important than the footnotes.

A quick side note — a question relating to corporate profits demanded more time in the Q&A than I was able to properly devote to it — a more complete response is in the footnote of last week's market comment (see Increasingly Immediate Impulses to Buy the Dip).

Unfortunately, the answer's far less dodgy, and far more dreary, than readers might like to imagine... Most of the time, my source is a footnote buried 50 pages deep in the back of an annual report, an old & random news article, a snippet from a six year old press release, or maybe it came from a forgotten corner of the corporate website.

Our savings factor rule of thumb is based on some key assumptions: You start saving a total of 15 % of your income every year starting at age 25, invest more than 50 % of your savings in stocks on average over your lifetime, retire at age 67, and plan to maintain your preretirement lifestyle (see footnote 1 for more details).

While I may enjoy nothing better than scouring accounting footnotes, most investors would reasonably expect management to telegraph a potentially substantive change in the P&L far more informatively.

It's fairly obvious that a major reason for Samorost 3's existence is to give its series some recognition as something other than a footnote to the rest of its developer's work, and in that regard, it roundly succeeds.

PSN syncing is simple, which is important as more relies on connectivity than ever before, while PS3 remote play gets an early blow in on Wii U's unique selling point, though neither of these functions, along with online multiplayer, is fully functional pre-launch in the UK so we'll leave the door ajar for a footnote or two come February.