Sentence examples for previously entertained from inspiring English sources

This meant units arriving would have to train with equipment on arrival [in Iraq] which they had not previously entertained.

And this was nothing less than to abandon every previously entertained idea about the structure of space and time.

That is not the point, and Sharpe has previously entertained by gleefully relishing the absurdity of sexual desire and its attendant escapades.

Concentric, which was opened in 2003, had previously entertained offers, Mr. Begasse said, but he and Mr. Sanzen believed MDC's "entrepreneurial bent" best matched theirs.

But the notion that it might never recover was previously entertained only by bearded survivalists stockpiling beans and ammunition in remote log cabins.

Few people had previously entertained any illusions about Saddam Hussein, but some have now begun to wonder at the suddenness with which we as a nation were awakened to his menace.

Parliament had previously refused to entertain the idea.

Ayatollah Khomeini had previously refused to entertain such a possibility — for him, defeating Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a religious duty.

Which raises a question: If the sequester will help our enemies, and put the country at risk, shouldn't Republicans be willing to discuss closing tax loopholes that benefit the rich and corporations — the same loopholes they were previously willing to entertain closing — to avoid it?

The two stars got on well; they had both previously worked in vaudeville, and they entertained the cast and crew off-screen by singing and dancing.

President Karzai was entertained by some of his previously most vocal critics as the US prepares for an offensive to secure the Pashtun heartland of Kandahar.