He had in mind the possibility of a nuclear attack.
"I built houses in South Florida after Hurricane Andrew, and I knew I had to build this while keeping in mind the possibility of serious hurricanes," he said.
England were in the classic D-L dilemma of clock-watching while bearing in mind the possibility that it might not rain.
I hope very much that I will never need residential care but, unlike healthy people, I have to bear in mind the possibility that some day I will.
But some of the justices certainly seemed to have in mind the possibility of a similar sequence of events with regard to Florida this year.
Always try to be realistic in your requests: bearing in mind the possibility that different time-zones and weekend/evening availability may have an impact on a subject's ability to respond.
But Mr. LaBute's latest play is the one that most directly takes on an issue that is always, it seems, on his mind: the possibility of divine grace in an irredeemably human world.
Among other things, he said, the Fed had to keep in mind the possibility of deflation, or a general decline in prices, a development that would require rapid rate reductions.
Team GB haven't quite got their heads around the strange new world they have returned to: the cheering ground crew, the instant beaming recognition of strangers in the airport, never mind the possibility of official honours to come.
Some might even argue that if the villainous nuns of "The Magdalene Sisters" had kept in mind the possibility of their own eternal punishment, that would have deterred rather than abetted their inhumanity.
There persists in Sedona's mind the possibility that she will get her birds back someday — that she and her mother will build a huge aviary at the new house, and even though the birds would be prisoners they would live there happily.
