Even many on the liberal "right", who call for change, would contemplate nothing more radical than Singapore-style one-party dominance.
The fact that so many troops are still needed, merely to prevent commemorative protests, suggests that China's Tibet policy is in need of an overhaul.China's officials seem to be contemplating nothing of the sort.
President Clinton stressed that the Alliance contemplates nothing of the kind". Despite that difference, the statement said, the two presidents agreed that negotiations should proceed on the NATO-Russia cooperation charter, to be conducted by NATO Secretary General Javier Solana and Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov.
Now he is contemplating nothing less than an Israeli political realignment, one that would give political expression to the chastening of both the left and the right: it would accept the possibility of some limited form of Palestinian state but also the improbability of any peace with the Palestinians.
Clinton's election as the first female President would complete the narrative, and Obama, his aides suggested, would be free to sit in the healing sun of Oahu and contemplate nothing more rigorous than the unrushed composition of a high-priced memoir.
Everyone who has been blown across the arctic walkway over 65th Street or stood elbow to elbow in the lobby of the New York State Theater or sat along the edge of the fountain, contemplating nothing, has an opinion about what works and does not work at Lincoln Center.
— I can contemplate nothing but parts, & parts are all little — !
With no peripheral distractions the eye can contemplate nothing but the Irish sky overhead.
But there is a large Greek fly in the ointment.A "renegotiation" of the sort being contemplated does nothing to sort out the mess in Greece.
The fatty part — the deckle, sold as "brisket moist" (the less marbled part, the flat, is sold as "brisket lean") — should first be contemplated with nothing more than bare fingers and closed eyes.
