afterthought

He wrote me a cold letter; even the inquiry about my health looked as if it had been added on as an afterthought.

You could see that the last part of the report had just been grafted on as an afterthought.

Almost as an afterthought, he carved a staff of Dreadwood and summoned into it a captive spirit from the Outer Hells.

I first saw the Eskimo, and will, I suppose, always first see what I first saw there, as if the Indian was mere afterthought.

Mary was a bit of an afterthought her brothers and sisters are all much older than her.

Service management and monitoring should be considered at Design-Time, not as an afterthought associated solely with IT operations.

Software is often an afterthought from the consumer's end, but when you're at the front lines this topic is very important.

At worst, Rickenbacher said rushing to respond with a gift could end up looking like an afterthought.

Revision is not just an afterthought that gets only as much time as you have at the end of an assignment.

We all design our HTML pages to look good on the screen, but printing those Web pages is usually an afterthought.

Maybe it is the suspect who was trying to destroy any evidence, as an afterthought.

E-reader manufacturers' focus on hardware design means their user interfaces often feel like an afterthought.

By conducting the offer in both centres at once, ICBC has demonstrated that the mainland exchange is no longer an afterthought.

As an afterthought I add as a courtesy, "I think you had better come with me. "

What's odd, though, is how many sites seem to think of security as an afterthought.

After all, Jordan was there to promote Dwyane Wade(notes) as an endorser to his line of shoes, so James was treated as afterthought.

Pennsylvania voters originally thought their primary might be an afterthought in the campaign.

Because this report is the primary deliverable upon which you will be graded, do not treat it as an afterthought .

But what they loved was the fact that products on the set wouldn't be an afterthought brought in by a prop master.

No suggestions will work if you still treat sleep like an afterthought to your day.

Architects are increasingly involved in helping create houses where security is an integral part of the design, rather than an afterthought.

They must be planned along with all areas of the building, and not wedged in as an afterthought.

They will find that "giving something back" can be upgraded from afterthought to a central part of the business.

After they had eaten, Dil said, as an afterthought, "Now make sure the children don't go out tomorrow, whatever you do. "

"I got some lard, " he would add, as an afterthought. "I thought maybe you might want to make some biscuit. "

However, let me tell you, they're no afterthought if you develop them.

They were synonymous with poor food and worse service, seemingly an afterthought to the main business of providing a bed for the night.

Nor do institutions maximize the effectiveness of the individuals thus aggregated, except as an afterthought.

I suggest having a barbecue before the big day so colleagues don't feel like an afterthought.

Usually people fall in love and everything revolves around the ritual of marriage, and children are an afterthought.

This approach usually incorporates one of the most important assets of the modern enterprise - enterprise data as an afterthought.

In the journal, he recorded events and afterthought of his own.

Europe, initially, was an afterthought.

Heartburn and breathlessness are pregnancy symptoms usually mentioned in passing, as an afterthought.

In many projects, formal requirements are done as an afterthought, if at all.

Social is not an afterthought, the website is now a Social Content Delivery Mechanic.

A: I don't think you can graft static type-safety onto XSLT (or anything else) as an afterthought.

They are used to putting all the processing in their object code. The database is an afterthought.

The choice of replication strategy should not be an afterthought -- you should consider it when building your Web applications.

the Fed expects to moderate inflation, but the concerns about inflation have been relegated almost to an afterthought.

"International questions are an afterthought, " says Francois Godement, founder of the Asia Centre, a Paris-based think tank.

Education long was an afterthought here.

It only inserted an "economic growth strategy" into its election manifesto as an afterthought.

Many software product developers tackle the user interface last, adding it on as an afterthought.

Following Japan's World War II defeat, Korea was divided along the 38th parallel by the allied powers in a virtual afterthought in 1945.

In most business process management tool suites, data is treated mostly as an afterthought.

The planning for Sophie's bat mitzvah began late by American standards, almost as an afterthought.

Drones, once an afterthought in tactical plans, have become a central component, flying millions of hours in combat.

a business lunch where food is an afterthought to intense dealmaking and negotiation.

But Jin said, perhaps as an afterthought, that he was optimistic about Europe's future.

Hollywood has also benefited from growth in international markets that were once an afterthought.

Just like i18n, proper l10n requires extensive provisions in code that you can't easily add as an afterthought.

So Uruguay, once a soccer power, most recently an afterthought, will travel to Cape Town for Tuesday's semifinal.

The wiki was introduced so others could make suggestions on edits -- as almost an afterthought, a back room.

Too often, scalability is an afterthought or a reaction to an overloaded system.

Whether in factories, mines or construction sites, workplace conditions in China are often atrocious, and workers' safety an afterthought.

Until that moment, the dinosaurs had reigned supreme and mammals were just an afterthought.

It is an afterthought (or a "never-thought" ) rather than an integral planning consideration.

The fans are not an afterthought at City, like they are at some clubs (and once were under a previous regime).

So it is on entrepreneurs, often an afterthought in the conventional jobs discussion, that the nation should focus.

The film was made first and the music was added as an afterthought.

An afterthought brought me back, when I had quitted the court.

In typical engineer fashion, marketing has been the afterthought.

But Japan has become an afterthought in the discourse about the fast-shifting balance of global power.

This is why open source has done well in programming tools, but desktops and user interfaces have often been an afterthought.

Almost an afterthought in 2008, this is now the leading area for Chinese spending.

Would I just be an afterthought?

The biggest challenge is that social is an afterthought, a mental note.

Nowadays, for many of us it's an afterthought, often after spending $100 or so on a fancy mouse.

In the traval daily , she recorded important data of time and her own afterthought.

While this is tip #7, it's a must-do for weight loss. It's not an afterthought!

With "power tilting to the mainland, " he continued, "Hong Kong will become an afterthought. "

Afterthought About the Ideological Nature of Literature and Art

Afterthought about the Business Accounting of the Research and Development Expenses of Self-established Non-physical Assets

(the basic planning is like the water supply; both are an afterthought)

Grievous Consequences and Afterthought of Escalated Campaign Against Rightists

Afterthought on Chinese Agricultural Protection

Afterthought on the Administrative Law After Colleges and Universities Accused

Afterthought of Logistics in Colleges and Universities under New Conditions

Afterthought of Administrative Lawsuit on Road Maintenance Fee Levy

Afterthought from the Planning and Construction of Public Toilets

Afterthought on the Laws of Hydrolyzing Reaction of Saline Compounds

Retrospect and afterthought: The first Guangzhou biennial art fair in the

afterthought n. thing that is thought of or added later