The phrase "are deliberating about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a topic or issue that is being considered or thought over by a group of people.
Example: "The committee members are deliberating about the best course of action to take regarding the new policy."
Alternatives: "are discussing" or "are considering".
What gives Reid's claim appeal is the fact that when we deliberate we think that what we are deliberating about is up to us, and for Reid, what is up to us is identical to what is in our power.
European nations are deliberating about whether to strengthen their emissions-reduction target to 30 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
WASHINGTON — President Obama and his legal advisers are deliberating about how the United States military may lawfully continue participating in NATO's bombing campaign in Libya after next week, when the air war will reach a legal deadline for terminating combat operations that have not been authorized by Congress.
This makes it possible to vary the advertisements shown depending on the time of day, season, or local factors such as demographics or weather.This ability to reach consumers just as they are deliberating about which item to pick from the shelves what the marketers at Procter & Gamble, a big consumer-goods firm, call "the first moment of truth"—has huge potential.
In a similar way, if the parties are deliberating about entire moral codes, there may be wide agreement that all the moral codes, overall, are in everyone's interests; if we "zoom in" in specific rights and duties, we are apt to get a very different answer.
The Obama administration's legal team has been deliberating about several potential options for a signing statement concerning the bill.
But then, as the Taliban were deliberating about how to "disinvite" their troublesome guest after 9/11, the United States invaded, bombing them into a closer alliance with Al Qaeda.
Jurors in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn had been deliberating about the liability of five cigarette makers -- Philip Morris Companies, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Lorillard Tobacco Company and Liggett Group -- since Thursday.
You might have four draft messages, as if you'd been deliberating about which one you're going to send, and then you finally hit reply with one of your possible drafts.
When asked why the Pentagon waited until now to ask WikiLeaks to return the undisclosed documents and remove the posted information from its Web site, Mr. Morrell said senior officials had been deliberating about what steps to take.
