Sentence examples for contemplate said from inspiring English sources

"It's just an idea that Peter and I were both saying, 'This wouldn't be a bad thing to contemplate,' " said Bruce Crawford, the Lincoln Center chairman.

"The cost of inaction or further delaying our response is too ghastly to contemplate," said David Phiri, subregional coordinator for Southern Africa at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

"I hear the complaint, 'You make them work too hard; you don't give them time to contemplate,' " said Brian Quinn, until recently the institute's director, as he headed down a busy two-lane highway dotted with the small new factories that form the first ripple of Vietnam's slowly emerging market economy.

"People are saying, 'Oh, isn't that nice, but I wonder if I'll have a job in three weeks.' " Ack! That's too much of a downer to contemplate, said Mr. Mizrahi, who remains in the camp of those who believe that want will ultimately conquer need.

That would be nice to contemplate," said Paul N. Van de Water, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning Washington think tank.

That's how racism functions in this country". America has a vested interest in bringing closure to the McVeigh case and casting him as "an outcast" because his contradictions are too painful for many to contemplate, said essayist and NPR commentator Richard Rodriguez.

"That anybody would ever contemplate saying or trying to do something like that in Australia as a way of responding to someone who has committed self-harm is totally unthinkable," said Young.

"A China without such an immense torrent at its heart is almost impossible to contemplate," says the writer Simon Winchester.

Although LT's new role is "exciting to contemplate," says Harvard immunologist Michael Starnbach, it's hard to see why the bacteria would need it.

"For prisoners there is no present and the future is hard to contemplate," says Thomas Wright, author of two books about Wilde.

"They're being contemplated," said Joseph F. Marie, Connecticut's commissioner of transportation.