He was not contemplating state-run economies but counterposing a socially based political philosophy to his already well developed notions of individualism.
Just Hawaii, Tennessee and Utah have no form of gambling, although Tennessee is contemplating a state lottery.
You are George Osborne contemplating the state of the economy a few weeks ahead of the autumn statement.
No one is quite sure what to reach for in Boulder, Colo., these days when contemplating the state of Colorado football, but the fired coach Jon Embree's choice was Kleenex as he talked about his untimely ouster on Monday.
Scroll forward 20 centuries and we find Rousseau contemplating the "state of nature", and concluding – in the face of philosophers such as Hobbes – that human "savages" naturally possess "uncorrupted morals", because they are a step up from "brute beasts" and not yet corrupted by the greed and decadence of artificial "civilisation".
The Thai government has been contemplating a state of emergency for weeks, but in practice, it is not clear how many of those powers it will be able to use, says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
Contemplating the state of the romantic comedy film, Zwick said that he found that the "depiction of men and women in film today and what really happens between men and women is less and less authentic".
But that way of life is being chipped away slightly, with a series of new laws — and more being contemplated by state legislators — that take aim at the bad habits of the state's 22 million drivers.
Contemplate the state of the climate.
Its songs contemplate the state of the world.
But, impressive as this work is, it is no replacement for having the courage to actually contemplate the state of the world around us.
