Friends found him lively company, but despair overwhelmed him in the end; in 1970, at the age of fifty-two, he committed suicide — an act that he had contemplated, according to his diary, as early as 1945.
Two of the options Mr. Beck has contemplated, according to people who have spoken about it with him, are a partial or wholesale takeover of a cable channel, or an expansion of his subscription video service on the Web.
Clarke's participation in the first Test was put in doubt by a longstanding back injury, and life without him at Lord's - or any of the other remaining Tests - is too worrying to contemplate, according to Chappell.
The variation of the energy request due to different measurements of volume flow rate has been contemplated in this study, according to the Italian regulation on residential buildings.
The couple had lived happily for some two decades on the Upper East Side and had never seriously contemplated leaving, according to Mrs. May.
More than one in five aboriginal adults living off reserve have contemplated suicide, according to a study released by Statistics Canada in January.
Several days before his death, Private Chen told a fellow soldier that he was so fed up with the treatment he was receiving at the hands of Sergeant Holcomb and other superiors that he was contemplating suicide, according to testimony.
So far, more than 60 municipalities and counties in the United States have passed living-wage ordinances and about 75 others are contemplating them, according to Jen Kern, the director of the Living Wage Resource Center of the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now in Washington, known as Acorn, an important force in the movement.
One in five U.K. bosses plan to make new hires in the third quarter, against the one in 20 who are contemplating cutbacks, according to Manpower's most recent quarterly Employment Outlook Survey published earlier this month.
A check signed by Marilyn Monroe on the day before her death suggests a low likelihood that the actress was contemplating suicide, according to Dr. S. David Bernstein, a Harvard-trained forensic psychologist and head of the Connecticut-based Forensic Consultants LLC.
Pius XII reportedly planned to resign if the Nazis invaded the Vatican, and some believed that Paul VI, weighed down by the office, contemplated the idea, according to "101 Questions and Answers on Popes and the Papacy," by Christopher M. Bellitto, a church historian at Kean University in Union, N.J. "I think it's highly unlikely that this pope will resign," Mr. Bellitto said.
