The demise of the streetcars that once were a part of America's urban fabric carried a colorful historical footnote that has become obscure to all but trolley buffs and conspiracy theorists.
Toward the end of this volume, Mr. Alter quotes Mr. Obama telling an aide that if he lost, his presidency would be "a footnote" and that "all of the progress we made in the first four years would be reversed"; if he won, his first-term achievements would be cemented for a generation and he could move ahead on promises sidetracked by the recession.
He adds that this 2004 opinion "included a footnote to say that all interrogation methods that earlier opinions had said were legal were still legal.
All that shelf space inside his cranium, it seems, is jammed with subtext — the footnotes, in effect, of his inspirations, footnotes that, as often as not, prove no less edifying or entertaining than the main text.
Add footnotes that clarify sources to the reader.
This clarification was posted on 30 March 2011: An editing error in the footnote above wrongly suggested that all six men convicted, and later acquitted on appeal, of the Birmingham pub bombings were represented by Gareth Peirce.
"We tried it both ways and it turned out the same," Kelly said with a smile, not needing to footnote that the Bills lost all four Super Bowls from 1991 through 1994.
Tudge rightly observes that "all genetics is footnotes to Mendel".
Without any analysis at all, that footnote that you wrote leaves the impression that unless the right to bear arms is considered fundamental, any gun restriction is necessarily permissible under the Second Amendment.
'People often say that all philosophy is just a footnote to Plato,' Hijab says, 'but they should add, "until Wittgenstein".' His devotion finally had its reward.
