Sentence examples for contemplating actions from inspiring English sources

The regulation lifted longstanding requirements that agencies contemplating actions that might affect endangered species consult with scientists from the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service and to take their guidance into account.

It remains the only occasion in the postwar era when the United States and the Soviet Union stood "eyeball to eyeball," contemplating actions that could have led directly to nuclear war.

The damage to the economy could be big.Regulators are contemplating action.

It would also be odd if the Bank wasn't contemplating action.

The Federal Reserve is contemplating action of its own, deriving inspiration from an old song by Chubby Checker.

About 300 victims have filed suits or are contemplating action against the archdiocese and more than 20 priests.

The Environmental Protection Agency is already contemplating action on nitrous oxide because it is a heat-trapping gas linked to global warming.

On Wednesday, Mr. Barroso said regulators had been contemplating action since 2008, when he said the ratings agencies had failed to judge the state of Lehman Brothers properly before the bank collapsed and sent global markets into a tailspin.

"If they decide to offshore the 380 program, we wouldn't be impressed and would have to show the public why it shouldn't be done," he said, adding that they were a long way from contemplating action.

The subpoenas alone do not indicate that the S.E.C. is contemplating action against any of the people who received them, and lawyers sympathetic to Time Warner said the interviews were an inevitable part of such an investigation.

They knew he was contemplating action, so they did the picture in for him; it was as if they decided whom the king might want killed, and, eager to oblige, performed the murder without waiting to be asked.