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under consideration

adj. now in consideration or under discussion; "regarding the matter in hand" [syn: at issue(a), in dispute(p), in hand(p), in question(p), under consideration(p)]

Usage examples of "under consideration".

In what cases a mistake affecting motives is a ground for avoidance, does not concern this discussion, because the subject now under consideration is when a contract is made, and the question of avoiding or rescinding it presupposes that it has been made.

This leads us then to the only means of preserving those remains of our laws now under consideration, that is, a multiplication of printed copies.

When the terms were under consideration, many citizens, desirous of peace, would have accepted them, declaring there was no hope of bringing to a favorable conclusion a war which required so much money to carry it on.

According to Newton's theory, a planet moves round the sun in an ellipse, which would permanently maintain its position with respect to the fixed stars, if we could disregard the motion of the fixed stars themselves and the action of the other planets under consideration.

The subject of improving grounds meanwhile was still under consideration among the others.

This other realm will come under consideration in the next chapter.

Chase observed that this article was the most likely to divide us of any one proposed in the draught then under consideration.

The mathematician will in such cases have no difficulty in expressing the matter under consideration in terms of his familiar symbols.

In the case under consideration, I can easily believe that, according to all slaveholding standards, here was a genuine instance of impudence.

But on the atevi mainland, the concept of instant news was under current consideration by the government, the way the inclusion or non-inclusion of a highway system had gone under consideration by the government —.