deliberation
Example Sentences
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Decisions taking too long, celebrations being put on hold while deliberations take place, confusion as goals are given - or ruled out - for marginal reasons, denying referees the ability to use their own common sense.
From BBC
It had been a year of crowded news conferences and Senate committee deliberations and lengthy legal filings.
"We agree that the probable causes are an accumulation of many attributes to depression," the jury foreperson said on Thursday, after about two hours of deliberation.
From BBC
He also said he supports the executive order but is alarmed by the agency’s continuing resistance to oversight by the court and its reluctance to include veterans in its deliberations.
From Los Angeles Times
The company made the “difficult decision” to implement a court-supervised sale process after careful deliberation, said Marc Rosen, chief executive of Catalyst Brands.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
