(a.) Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating.
(a.) Given to thought or contemplation.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can only imagine the internal cogitations about Australian politics in other capitals: who is this one, will he last, is he worth my time, what on earth is going on down there?
(2) He sounded much like Loyd Grossman, whom older readers may recall used to present the original Masterchef programme, and who invariably preceded the judges' result by saying, "We have digested, cogitated and deliberated."
(3) The Oscar commenteriat are nearing the end of their five-month marathon of prognosis and pre-cogitation.
(4) They were afraid to smile.” As well as David Hasselhoff cogitating next to memorials, David Hasselhoff looking horrified by a Trabant and David Hasselhoff walking through computer-generated death zones, David Hasselhoff also introduces East German refugees who, it could be argued, versus-ed the Wall in even bigger ways than him.
(5) Piecing together the odds is a question of informed guesswork, since the nominations and cogitations of the members of the Nobel Committee for Literature are kept under wraps by the Swedish Academy, which only reveals the conversations of the judicial huddle 50 years after the decision is made.
Deliberative
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.
(n.) A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
(n.) A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sunsets were attached to the act's most controversial provisions, to permit better-informed, more deliberative consideration of them at a later time.
(2) Following a deliberative review, our intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year.
(3) A 'deliberative' approach, wherein not all patients require surgery, is detailed, and there may be an increasing role for laparoscopic perforation-sealing techniques in the remainder.
(4) In study I the respondents (N = 40) were asked about their deliberative mind sets during positive versus negative mood and about their general perceptions of mood influences on performance.
(5) Kohrman concludes with a discussion of infant care committees, agreeing with Weir that they could play an important deliberative role in treatment decisions concerning impaired newborns.
(6) In the former unit, in order to avoid surgery in those patients whose ulcers had sealed spontaneously, a deliberative approach was followed according to a strict protocol--involving a deliberate time delay in surgical decision-making.
(7) I always respond to these people that what I'm actually advocating is a slower and more deliberative process.
(8) A more deliberative methodology like the one used here appears fruitful for providing insights to policymakers about preferences in this sensitive area.
(9) 7.21pm BST While the news focus shifts to [something possibly happening] in the Boston bombing case, our friends in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body continue to babble in the gun control debate.
(10) What I prefer to advocate is not that we change as fast as possible, but to engage in a more deliberative political and longer-term dialogue, which is why I wrote a book rather than proposing a Ponzi scheme to spark a quick transition.
(11) "This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open or deliberative process," said the statement emailed from the White House late on Tuesday in anticipation of a House debate on the Amash measure scheduled for Wednesday.
(12) Non-violent civil disobedience – modelled on the activism of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi – would be the last resort, after mass deliberative meetings that would form the basis for negotiations by the opposition pan-democratic parties that are backing Occupy.But opponents claim the campaign threatens chaos.
(13) Downing Street is hoping to reduce the number of Tory rebels by acting in a deliberative manner.
(14) Now is the time for that deliberative consideration, but informed discussion is not possible when most members of Congress – and nearly all of the American public – lack important information about the issue.
(15) We further reaffirm the central position of the General Assembly as the chief deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the United Nations.
(16) Influencing factors are examined in the light of the final decision using Roby's Deliberative Model.
(17) This is the third taxpayer funded deliberative process since 2011.
(18) Among shadow ministers, there is far too little imagination or audacity at work, and an apparent belief that the cuts will do the party's work for it – as a very good piece about Miliband in this week's New Statesman puts it, an approach that is "too deliberative, slow to strike out in bold and unorthodox new directions".
(19) He will suggest the technology can allow Britain to become "the world leader in the new politics where that voice for feedback and deliberative decisions can transform the way we make local and national decisions".
(20) But further difficulties, such as the fact that consensus at one level of discourse need not imply consensus at another, oblige us to look more closely at the deliberative process itself.