An observer stands on the bank of a river which he has to swim over, and deliberates on the qualities of the water and on the strength of the current.
Instead of inquiring into what is, he deliberates about what ought to be.
He next sent in his resignation: "Citizens, members of the Commune, I feel myself incapable of any longer bearing the responsibility of a command where every one deliberatesand no one obeys.
The Central Committee deliberates and has not yet known how to act.
He only deliberates respecting matters which are more or less within his own agency and control: respecting matters which are not certain, but of doubtful issue.
The assembly which deliberates and decides concerning the affairs of every part of the empire, in order to be properly informed, ought certainly to have representatives from every part of it.
The person who has a capital from which he wishes to derive a revenue, without taking the trouble to employ it himself, deliberates whether he should buy land with it, or lend it out at interest.
Prudence deliberates and judges about good and lawful means for its end; astuteness deliberates and judges how it may make use of evil means, and it employs trickery and fraud to perform what it decides on.
Do not divers wills distract the mind, while he deliberates which he should rather choose?
It resembles the case in which a man has already made his final decision, say to take a walk, and deliberates only upon what walk to take.
The latter holds a fixed end in view and deliberates only upon means of reaching it.
And as man in general deliberates about what man in general can effect, so individuals do about such practical things as can be effected through their own instrumentality.
Nor in fact even about all human affairs; no Lacedæmonian, for instance, deliberates as to the best course for the Scythian government to adopt; because in such cases we have no power over the result.
Man only deliberateswhen he does not distinctly understand the quality of the objects from which he receives impulse, or when experience has not sufficiently apprised him of the effects, more or less remote, which his actions will produce.
But it may be said of man as it is said of woman: the woman whodeliberates is lost: the man that deliberates about receiving bribes is gone.
The person who deliberates is lost, if the intellect that doubts and weighs alternatives is less completely organised than habits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deliberates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
