As Yerushalmi describes it, "What was suddenly drawn up from the past was not a series of facts to be contemplated at a distance, but a series of situations into which one could somehow be existentially drawn".
People have found the land so useful, or made it so useful for themselves, that it must now be contemplated at a different level, as tools and objects must be regarded differently from raw materials.
This seems indicative of how he wants his essays to function: less like art-objects (beautiful, stable things to be contemplated at a distance) than a training ground for how we might relate differently to the world and one another through how we relate to the text.
As for the "axis of evil" and reports of a possible U.S. military strike against Iraq, the Saudi leader said: "Any attack on Iraq or Iran should not be contemplated at all because it would not serve the interests of America, the region or the world, as there is no clear evidence of a present danger.
Theoretically, therapeutic approaches can be contemplated at different stages of the natural history of the disease.
"This is plainly not the situation that was contemplated at Sharm el Sheik," Mr. Mitchell said in an interview on Saturday.
The plan will go into effect in 2013-14 and will remain for at least three seasons, "barring another relocation or expansion, neither of which are being contemplated at this time," Commissioner Gary Bettman said.
Two days of talks in Brussels ended with public concessions that the idea of "reprofiling" Greek debt, or voluntarily extending maturities without changing interest rates or the amount of the loan, was being contemplated, at least as a last resort.
The F.B.I. notes, in a memorandum dated February 27 , 1952 from the Philadelphia office to Hoover in Washington, "No interview is contemplated at this time since it is felt that such an interview of a person of Mrs. Buck's prominence might result in repercussions and adverse publicity for the Bureau".
Glaucoma therapy, including laser iridotomy due to creeping papillary synechiae, was contemplated at this point.
