However, he observed that James "concluded the Catholic church to be the sole authoritative voice on earth, and thenceforward ... he not only stood firm against surrender but on no single occasion contemplated the least compromise or by a word would modify the impression made".
On more than one occasion, I contemplated conversion, until which time as I considered the logos of each faith and the often crazy and competing truth claims.
"The prospect of human cloning," he wrote, "so repulsive to contemplate, is the occasion for deciding whether we shall be slaves of unregulated progress and ultimately its artifacts, or whether we shall remain free human beings who guide our technique toward the enhancement of human dignity".
I can honestly say that it was during this time that I contemplated suicide on several different occasions.
D. W. Griffith used to visit projection booths to snip his films already in release, which I'm sure Mr. Wong has contemplated doing on more than one occasion.
When one contemplates all the occasions on which Osborne's ill-conceived economic strategy merited his dismissal, it is strange that a worthy cause he so passionately fought for – namely that we should remain in the European Union – should, when it failed, have been the occasion for his political demise.
He had contemplated suicide on at least three occasions in the 1830s, and from the mid-1840s on he suffered periodic attacks of severe depression and nervous exhaustion.
The Lex Pompeia (B.C. 52), passed when Pompeius was sole consul for part of that year, appears to have been rather a measure passed for the occasion of the trials then had and contemplated than any thing else.
King contemplated calling off the campaign on more than one occasion and twice was forced to postpone its opening date.
As BuzzFeed's Beastmaster (which means that I run the hard-hitting Cute Animals section), I've had occasion to contemplate these theories a good deal.
The case of the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, which briefly wrought havoc in the U.S. embassy, is a good occasion to contemplate the perennial tension between our respect for human rights and our need to deal with undemocratic regimes on issues like nuclear proliferation, trade, counterterrorism and climate change.
