All steps short of boots on the ground, as the US under-secretary of state William Burns put it are now urgently contemplated, with a view to immediate implementation.
Indeed, Beijing's overtures toward India, though clearly made with the economic opportunities in mind, are also being contemplated with a keen awareness of China's rivalry with the United States.
As word of Nineteen Eighty-Four began to circulate, Astor's journalistic instincts kicked in and he began to plan an Observer Profile, a significant accolade but an idea that Orwell contemplated "with a certain alarm".
Midway through her lost Thanksgiving weekend, just after the rushed trip to see the Rockettes, Diane Barker had a revelation, one that she has contemplated with a degree of melancholy over the past year.
As this dialogue continues, there are some key components of measuring, managing and rewarding human potential and behavior within an organization that need to be contemplated with a much broader lens than just the compelling argument associated with the administrative burden of conducting annual evaluations, and the dislike for the feedback process.
It should benefit all who work in the ICU by demonstrating that organ donation can be discussed with confidence, openness and compassion, and need not be contemplated with a sense of unease.
Peter H. Van Tuyn, a lawyer for Trustees for Alaska, a private group that has frequently sued Alaskan polluters, warned the committee to approach the studies it would soon contemplate with "a large grain of salt".
As Derek Jacobi reads from the writings of the legendary dancer and choreographer, it is impossible not to contemplate with a shudder the shadowy line between art, ecstasy and psychosis.
As you watch Louise mold the clay of her dull life into fantasies, you might find yourself contemplating with a smile on your face more than laughing out loud.
(Metzger, 1987 [1936]: 47; original emphasis) … call[ed] expansive thinking that which rushes noisily and simultaneously in all directions where it can cut a path, which will constantly and irregularly go ahead without taking a moment to contemplate with a glance the terrain covered, and without attempting to build a doctrinal monument!
