(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.
Weigh
Definition:
(n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.
(v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.
(v. t.) To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
(v. t.) To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.
(v. t.) To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.
(v. t.) To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
(v. t.) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
(v. i.) To have weight; to be heavy.
(v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
(v. i.) To bear heavily; to press hard.
(v. i.) To judge; to estimate.
(n.) A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(2) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(3) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(4) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(5) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
(6) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(7) Among infants weighing less than 2 500 g, perinatal mortality was higher in the local hospital than in the university hospital, the higher mortality being due to the higher rate of stillborn infants.
(8) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
(9) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
(10) Hematoma clot weighing 10 grams was removed through emergency craniotomy, followed by external decompression.
(11) The babies were weighed prior to the morning feeding.
(12) By contrast the perinatal wastage was only 7 per 1,000 births in babies born weighing more than 1,500g and this included lethal congenital malformations.
(13) The direct measurement of adiposity, using hydrostatic weighing and other techniques, is not feasible in studies involving young children or with large numbers of older subjects.
(14) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(15) The fibrosis of the gastric wall with motility disturbances, and the diminution of acid and pepsin production from damage to the glandular elements, would weigh against the addition of a vagotomy to the drainage procedure.
(16) The improved survival of the infants weighing 1,500 gm or less when compared with infants of similar weights in preceding years is attributed to more intensive perinatal management of these mothers and their very-low-birth-weight infants.
(17) We therefore developed a food frequency questionnaire and tested it against a 4-day weighed food record in 54 Caucasian women, between 29 and 72 years of age.
(18) These advantages must be weighed against the finding that overheating was more common and Pseudomonas was more commonly isolated from the infants.
(19) The experiment was performed using two young male camels which weighed 24 and 36 kg respectively at birth.
(20) Fears over China's financial system also weighed ( see this post for the background ).