Its final product is always death, an inevitability that is usually noticed only in retrospect.
In retrospect, however, the cumulative impact of growth on output is a fact.
In retrospect, we would do well to consider the scars he received and not simply the battle he won.
Our experimental design was not, in retrospect, ideal with respect to the high/low diversity comparison.
In retrospect, the problem was probably detected late as a consequence of preoccupation with retrieval of the embolized device.
In retrospect, the patient should have been submitted to surgery several months earlier.
In retrospect, he is proud to have avoided attributing a unidirectional impact of science on society or of social and economic forces on science.
These twin constraints seriously limited war-time efforts to maximize palm oil production for export and, in retrospect, failure was inevitable.