In 2007, he briefly considered mounting another run for the Senate.
ITV had seriously considered mounting a challenge for the rights, which it last held between 2001 and 2004.
Remarkably, once the potential bidders dropped out, Bernanke and Paulson never seriously considered mounting a government rescue of Lehman Brothers.
He has said he has considered mounting campaigns or legal battles to install English immersion progams in Oregon, Illinois and New York.
Six years ago, the Louvre museum considered mounting the Crime and Punishment exhibition, but the museum's president, Henri Loyrette, shied away.
In the 1940s and '50s, city officials considered mounting a comprehensive search, and Robert Moses even drew up plans for a memorial park.
The Clinton administration even considered mounting a secret effort to steal millions of dollars from the bin Laden terrorist network by siphoning it out of the international financial system, but discarded the scheme because of objections from the United States Treasury about the implications for world finance.
The hospital planners initially considered mounting the computer screens on swing arms on the walls by the beds, for example, but they decided against that because they did not think that the swing arms would be easily movable in the event of an emergency.
In 1978, The Walt Disney Company and National Geographic magazine considered mounting a joint expedition to find Titanic, using the aluminium submersible Aluminaut.
Trump has repeatedly blasted that investigation as a "witch hunt," and House Republicans have considered mounting a campaign to impeach Rosenstein.
