Contemplating the outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference, I can only hope he is right.
Contemplating this outcome, the new administration would have had urgent reasons to take out insurance policies.
As Noam Chomsky said: "As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome".
In a rare moment of calm between crises over Ebola and Islamic State, a group of congressmen gathered on Capitol Hill to discuss something few Americans have had as much cause to contemplate: the outcome of next Tuesday's midterm elections.
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Scowcroft said that he is equally concerned about Wolfowitz's unwillingness to contemplate bad outcomes and Kagan's willingness to embrace them on principle.
I'm sure that I had a big goober smile on my face as I contemplated such an outcome.
We must consider every peaceful alternative and contemplate every possible outcome before we turn to force.
But even that outcome contemplates Republicans' winning Mr. Reid's seat in Nevada, where there is a very close race between a Republican representative, Joe Heck, and former Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat.
The film's most powerful scene has the camera rest for an uncomfortable amount of time on Elbe in a hospital room as she contemplates the worst outcome of the life-threatening surgical procedure.
While Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers insist that she is determined to win the Democratic nomination, friends of the couple say that former President Bill Clinton, for one, has begun privately contemplating a different outcome for her: As Senator Barack Obama's running mate.
