(a.) Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor.
(a.) Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result.
(a.) Not hasty or sudden; slow.
(v. t.) To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question.
(v. i.) To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about, concerning.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two groups had one thing in common: the casualties' mostly deliberate posttraumatic reaction; there were only 3 patients in a state of helplessness.
(2) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
(3) "We absolutely regret the setbacks Kim Dotcom has had since MegaUpload was taken offline, but we hope he as an entrepreneur will understand our side of the story and the decisions deliberately taken."
(4) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
(5) "Medical professionals have perhaps been the least involved [of all sectors] in debates and discussions around abortion, and anti-choice groups have very effectively carried out a deliberate strategy of targeting and influencing health professionals.
(6) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(7) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
(8) There is no doubt that people were killed quite deliberately by police officers.
(9) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(10) This analysis does not replace the diagnostic deliberations of the clinician.
(11) While some might deride the deliberate mainstream branding and design, saying it panders to convention, this is exactly what Hannah feels her community needs.
(12) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
(13) However, evidence obtained by the committee showed the document had "deliberately misled" the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), she said.
(14) Labour would not rule any runway options in or out while the Davies commission was still deliberating, she added.
(15) Young people from ordinary working families that are struggling to get by.” Labour said Greening’s department had deliberately excluded the poorest families from her calculations to make access to grammar schools seem fairer and accused her of “fiddling the figures”.
(16) We need to stop making excuses for them: But it is up to the state to close the loopholes Yes, the state must work continually to tighten and simplify the tax regime, which is a deliberate mess keeping an entire industry of accounting firms and tax lawyers fed.
(17) It is not outlandish to ask whether different central governments have deliberately promoted development elsewhere.
(18) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
(19) Early charcoal administration may be of value therefore in reducing the toxicity of mefenamic acid after deliberate or accidental overdosage.
(20) There could be no doubt who these deliberate vandals were, either: unelected members of the House of Lords, and the 48% of the country who failed to vote for Brexit.
Perjury
Definition:
(v.) False swearing.
(v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Special prosecutors investigating Park’s relationship with her longtime confidante , Choi Soon-sil, had demanded Lee’s arrest on charges of bribery, embezzlement and perjury.
(2) In his closing speech to the jury on Monday, prosecutor Alex Prentice said the charge of perjury was extremely serious.
(3) The special prosecutor’s office on Wednesday asked the court to issue warrants to arrest Cho and a former presidential chief of staff on suspicion of abuse of power and perjury.
(4) The other part of it is the possibility of perjury, which is punishable by law for anybody else.
(5) They cite a unanimous 1973 Supreme court case, Bronston vs US, that dealt with the perjury conviction of movie producer Samuel Bronston.
(6) Given powerful evidence against the companies, OPIC at first refused them compensation, and the Justice Department indicted two mid-level ITT operatives for perjury.
(7) The 46-year-old politician, who was a member of the Scottish parliament for eight years, was convicted of committing perjury when he convinced a libel jury in August 2006 that the Sunday tabloid had lied about his adultery and visits to a Manchester sex club.
(8) .He was convicted on five of six elements of the perjury charge.
(9) In its report , the IPCC stated that Metcalf’s note “in essence acknowledges, at least in respect of some of the plaintiffs, that there may have been perjury by officers”.
(10) Her son's godfather is Jonathan Aitken, the former Tory minister who was jailed for perjury in 1990s.
(11) Gail Sheridan, who was prosecuted but cleared of perjury last month, told scores of reporters and supporters outside the court that her husband would resume his political life after he was released.
(12) The only waiting crowds were journal ists, and there were no impassioned speeches: indeed, bizarrely for Lord Archer, free after serving half of a four-year sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice, there were no speeches at all.
(13) Strathclyde police said Coulson was detained in London on Wednesday morning for questioning in connection with evidence the former News of the World editor gave during Sheridan's own trial for perjury in December 2010.
(14) In addition the Respect leader called on the director of public prosecutions to charge Shah with perjury over evidence she gave in the trial of her mother, who was found guilty of murder after poisoning an abusive partner with arsenic.
(15) Andy Coulson , David Cameron's former director of communications, has been detained by police investigating alleged perjury at the trial of the Scottish socialist politician Tommy Sheridan.
(16) In one month alone in 1999 Clifford helped broker three stories which dominated the headlines – Lord Archer's perjury, Cherie Blair's pregnancy and sexual allegations against Gary Glitter.
(17) During Sheridan's perjury trial, the accuracy of the NoW's stories about him in October and November 2004, which provoked his defamation action, came under sustained attack.
(18) But after sitting through 44 days of evidence and listening to 69 witnesses, the jury of 12 women and two men decided that Sheridan was guilty of a single charge of perjury, which was broken down into five allegations.
(19) Jonathan Aitken v the Guardian, 1997 In one of the most spectacular collapses in legal history, the former cabinet minister was imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice after it emerged he had lied under oath about who had paid for a weekend stay at the Ritz hotel in Paris.
(20) The Sun faces a significant bill for court costs, to be determined at a later date, and it is possible that Mahmood could be tried for perjury.