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

From my vantage point, it appears as if it was as an afterthought that an attempt was made to let us be realistic amend my proposal.

That is why a knee jerk, simplistic Washington Consensus prescription of more liberalization and privatization is inappropriate for the Arab world in 2012. There is a clear political need for a growth strategy in which inclusion is the centerpiece, not an afterthought.

In the West, there is so much focus on China that India s achievements are often acknowledged only as an afterthought. As if to underscore the point that political stability must triumph in the long run, the Indians plastered Swiss buses with the banner India The World s Fastest Growing Democracy.

In the midst of this turmoil came the assassination of the Afghan government s chief peace negotiator with the Taliban, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani. Soon after, an outraged President Hamid Karzai signed a strategic partnership agreement with India (though he added, as a placatory afterthought, that Pakistan is our twin brother ).

But, given that I and my fellow representatives of civil society are speaking after the adoption of the summit's final outcome document, I have to say that it would be unfortunate indeed if civil society, which has contributed so energetically to this endeavour, were to be perceived as no more than an afterthought in its proceedings.

But the discoveries and published papers rarely benefit the people who enable this research by donating their blood and other tissue samples. As Michael Nielsen discusses in his recent book Reinventing Discovery, the publish or perish mentality that dominates the field means that many substandard or incomplete papers are published, while those people who are supposed to benefit from the research are often little more than an afterthought.