Planning something carefully and intentionally

Usage examples of deliberation.

This speech was made quietly and with all the customary Winslow deliberation and apparent calm, but there was one little slip in it and that slip Babbitt was quick to notice.

The lank black hair and deep grey eyes, the haggard expression and nervous manner, the fitful yet keen interest of his visitor were a novel change from the phlegmatic deliberations of the ordinary scientific worker with whom the Bacteriologist chiefly associated.

Then Bigfoot appeared in the picture, moving with deliberation through the light gravity, throwing himself up and into the airlock.

Prince Rupert the duke of Ormond, Sectary Trevor, and Lord Keeper Bridgeman, men in whose honor the nation had great confidence, were never called to any deliberations.

With the covetous deliberation of the winning gambler, Le Chiffre was tapping a light tattoo on the table with his right hand.

When the mutiny bill fell under deliberation, the earl of Egmont proposed a new clause for empowering and requiring regimental courts-martial to examine witnesses upon oath in all their trials.

She made no sound, although the old house creaked and sighed all around her and the tick took of the great Friesian clock in the hall dripped with soft deliberation into the silence.

It is very difficult to backtrack a chain of gates, if it was constructed with proper random deliberation, even for the time-mobile.

As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.

We must provide for interregional and international deliberations and decision-making.

So, every day or so, my father and uncle would get out our copy of the Kitab and, only after deliberation and consultation and final agreement, they would inscribe upon it the symbols for mountains and rivers and towns and deserts and other such landmarks.

The King after deliberation granted this last point, and from that time the incursions of the Mamelucos ceased in Paraguay and generally throughout the mission territory.

He was so casual about it all that no one, except perhaps Hergus who stood beyond them several paces looking back, could have guessed he had maneuvered himself so with deliberation.

CHAPTER XXI THE INNOCENT BLOOD After I had been taken away it seems that the court summoned Hernan Pereira and Henri Marais to accompany them to a lonely spot at a distance, where they thought that their deliberations would not be overheard.

He reached up to his uncovered chest, and with a terrible deliberation, he pricked his finger on one of his own spikes, testing its point.