The senate is only tenuously democratic, in the debased "one person, one vote" sense, because the quality of deliberation matters at least as much to the legitimacy of collective decisionmaking as does equality of political influence.
Groups also select leaders who are more certain in their decision-making than the average person, possibly because the process of deliberation makes individuals appear weak.
The Stone Age, New Paintings Canada 55 Chrystie Street, near Hester Street, Lower East Side Through Feb. 11 Carrie Moyer's paintings are bracing blasts from several pasts and look surprisingly contemporary because of the deliberation with which they are made.
If so, even though it be of exceedingly brief duration, that is sufficient, because it is the fact of deliberation rather than the length of time it continued that is important.
At those meetings, the next step in the process of designing an international strategy to combat global warming, international delegates will again discuss more active participation by developing countries, which was essentially removed from the pact during the final hours of deliberation in Kyoto because of objections from China and India.
For Montague the principle of compositionality was not a subject of deliberation or discussion, because for him, as a mathematical logician, it was the only way to proceed.
Still others say that because testimony took about six weeks, seven days of deliberation would be routine and no sign of deadlock.
In contrast to post hoc analyses of deliberation transcripts, deliberative outputs have additional political legitimacy because they represent collective positions arrived at through democratic deliberation, that are subsequently ratified as such".
The verdict came after five days of deliberation by jurors whose names have been kept secret because of security concerns.
After a bit of deliberation, the team settled on 42-second shareable clips, mostly because Caras is a Douglas Adams fan.
After three hours of deliberation, they refer.
