Hopes that emerging markets would remain buoyant during a downturn in the West were dashed when markets plummeted in China, India, Russia and elsewhere.With job losses mounting, governments pondered measures to stave off a deep economic slump.
LONDON — As Britain begins to weigh the costs of the rioting of recent days and ponder measures to prevent a recurrence, the government of Prime Minister David Cameron put forward on Friday a new way of punishing the looters and vandals who rampaged through many of the country's cities and towns: kick them and their families out of their government-subsidized homes.
Trying to make the Ten Commandments part of public school life in ways that could survive constitutional challenges, Indiana has passed a bill that permits schools to post the religious edicts as historical documents, and several other states are pondering similar measures.
They've been measured, pondered and measured again.
Absent a solution — or even a pathway to a bill — senators whiled away the hours without any agreement, debating and voting on amendments to a surveillance measure, pondering hurricane aid, and swearing in a new senator from Hawaii.
He was 85. Building on the work of Alfred Kinsey, Dr. Masters devoted more than half a century to observing, measuring, pondering and demystifying the mechanics of sexual intercourse and determining how to make the sexual experience better for couples who found its pleasures elusive if not unattainable.
Building on the pioneering work of Alfred Kinsey, Dr. Masters devoted more than half a century to observing, measuring, pondering and demystifying the mechanics of sexual intercourse and determining how to make the sexual experience better for couples who found its pleasures elusive if not unattainable.
The kids and I are pondering how Peter Capaldi will measure up as the next Doctor Who as the toothpaste is dispensed.
Instead, intentionality is only considered when pondering which remedial or disciplinary measures to apply to a specific incident (Devlin 2006, p. 48; Pecorari 2013: KL445-46).
Where will they be in November when the state's pondering a host of tricky ballot measures? .
