Sentence examples for merely contemplating from inspiring English sources

As predicted, merely contemplating contagion made respondents less likely to support immigrant legalization measures.

Conservatives' efforts to recruit a candidate to compete against Donald Trump may have only been able to come up with David French, a National Review writer, who is merely contemplating the possibility of running.

England are merely contemplating the possibility of "one or two tweaks", with Tom Youngs and Geoff Parling both pushing hard to start after impressing off the bench against Scotland.

More broadly, spending on durable goods tends to be much more volatile than spending on nondurables and services, because all that is needed to induce a surge in durables spending is something that pushes consumers from merely contemplating a purchase to actually making a purchase.

Whether you're already riding this particular raft over the rapids, standing on the bank and thinking about jumping in, or merely contemplating the view of the churning water from a (safe) distance, this month's feature offers both broad perspective and also well-informed advice.

Those who write, talk, discuss or merely contemplate a critique of Israel are depicted as extremists, aka "intellectual" or "couch" terrorists.

In fact, he hadn't even officially retired, merely contemplated the idea, but a funny thing happened when he was faced with the prospect of hanging up his cap for the last time: he became incapacitated by panic attacks.

And so, as more than a dozen states grapple with next year's budgets, most of which take effect on July 1, many experts say politicians would be wise to do more than merely contemplate significant change — and may soon have little choice.

Even were we to accept this premise, no tort claim has been made out: "So long as the plaintiff's contractual relations are merely contemplated or potential, it is considered to be in the interest of the public that any competitor should be free to divert them to himself by all fair and reasonable means...

But they don't all merely contemplate an imaginary horror – the film It Happened Here, for instance, used research on collaboration in the Channel Islands and footage of British fascists to make a point against the smugness of postwar England, outlining just how easily and quietly its population could have collaborated.

There is still a kind of transition called for — this time commencing from a point at which God merely contemplates the possibilities of how things might go with creation, to a point at which, having decided what creatures and circumstances will in fact populate the world, he knows how things will go.