Combined with a loss in London's mayoral race, it would almost certainly prompt deliberations over the future of his leadership.
But throughout the Defense Department, where every action by the civilian boss is parsed by officers with a care akin to old-school Kremlinology, Mr. Gates's decision is likely to prompt deliberations across the armed services on whether to have personnel working in the Pentagon follow his example.
Opponents of the CPP argue that the stay is legitimately unprecedented because the CPP is itself unprecedented -- asserting a wide range of authority that is both proven and untested, prompting deliberation of legal questions with which the Court has not previously engaged.
Any return prompted extensive deliberation and soul-searching.
In addition, the lack of a veto power means that currently the most the Council can do is delay the passage of bills and prompt further parliamentary deliberation of the bills in question.
Any number of strategies for managing matrixed relationships are proposed over the years, but the bottom line always comes down to a need to effectively share power, which human beings are not particularly good at especially in dynamic environments requiring prompt decision making, not endless deliberation.
The measure prompted several days of public deliberation by state lawyers, questioning their obligation under state law to grant it a provisional title and send it forward to the petition stage.
The frustration was especially intense, jurors said, because they seemed to have gotten past the intense and bitter disagreements that a few days earlier seemed to be derailing their deliberations and prompted them to send several notes to the judge.
The verdict came after 11 hours of deliberation and was read on live television, prompting court officials to shout for silence.
The magazine's extensive deliberation that stretches over a six page essay was prompted by the rapid-fire events of the past several years –-popular eruptions from the original Orange Revolution in Ukraine to the Arab Spring that have cast autocrats out only to replace them with failed attempts at democracy and then a return to autocratic rule, often as not backed by men in uniforms.
The tradition dates back to 1268, when after nearly three years of deliberation the cardinals had still not agreed on a new pope, prompting the people of Rome to hurry things up by locking them up and cutting their rations.
