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How to use the word contemplated in a Sentence?

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In this new and unforeseen reality, where we expect thousands more to arrive every week going forward, the city’s system is nearing its breaking point, as a result, the city’s prior practices, which never contemplated the bussing of thousands of people into New York City, must be reassessed.

Mayor Adams '

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's going to be additional legislative action, we've contemplated that. We know what we're going to do, so stay tuned. That'll all be apparent.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She had this look in her eye like she had never really contemplated that that was even a possibility.

Charlize Theron

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Definitely some hospitals, particularly in the Los Angeles area, were at the breaking point, but we did not see that much use of the alternate care sites relative to what was contemplated, as dire as the situation was in the winter, it could have been even worse.

Janet Coffman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Daniel Ellsberg first use of nuclear weapons should not be contemplated, prepared, or threatened anywhere, under any circumstances, including the defense of Taiwan Straits.

Daniel Ellsberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will act to protect retail investors when the facts demonstrate abusive or manipulative trading activity that is prohibited by the federal securities laws, market participants should be careful to avoid such activity. Likewise, issuers must ensure compliance with the federal securities laws for any contemplated offers or sales of their own securities.

The SEC

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

Justice Warren E. Burger

added by Normando
3 years ago

It could very well be the case that in the next few days physicians are going to have to make decisions that they never even contemplated before, and the emotional toll for some is going to be absolutely disabling.

Robert Truog

Found on CNN
4 years ago

With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

James Madison

added by Normando
4 years ago

Every single step of the process contemplated by The Trump administration is the stuff of legal fantasy, if there is an applicable rule of constitutional law and appellate procedure that this would not violate, it does not occur to me.

Joshua Matz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are reviewing the decision and will be seeking a stay from the Supreme Court, within the time contemplated by the D.C. Circuit.

Erik Jaffe

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They are all questions we have considered and contemplated prior to the response from the FDA.

David Moatazedi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

People are saying for the first time in their life they would vote for united Ireland, having never contemplated it before.

Steven Agnew

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

A public discussion of the rights and wrongs of this would need to follow before any change in law could be contemplated.

Sarah Norcross

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

All I could think about was these horror movies, you know? this big turbine coming and I’m coming for it, you know? It’s going to chop me up and kill me. And I just contemplated, do I pull the regulator out of my mouth and just die?

Le Cun

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I suddenly saw my picture all over the media, but alhamdulillah( thanks be to God), the kuffar( infidels) were blinded by Allah, i was even stopped by an officer who contemplated me so as to compare me to the picture, but he let me go, as he did not see the resemblance.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is not being contemplated as a $3 billion transaction, there is no market for it, we are trying to achieve a smaller transaction, with reasonable terms, of some $400 to $500 million.

Victor Suarez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Working with my father was something I've always contemplated. So I dived into the business world and found out more about what it is.

Philip Cassel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have contemplated ... the possibility of separating our Australian and U.S. businesses so that the U.S. business can be financed out of the U.S., where we think it would get better value recognition and make more sense, separating could be either a sale of the entire U.S. business or a refinancing which would see us raise equity into the U.S. business at the U.S. business level.

Director Miles George

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Miguel de Unamuno

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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