Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a deliberative manner; by deliberation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a deliberative manner; circumspectly; considerately.
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- adverb In a
deliberative manner.
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Examples
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The actual process of establishing the convention might involve deliberative planning rather than a raw process of between-group selection, but that only pushes back the inquiry to why we deliberatively plan that way.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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The actual process of establishing the convention might involve deliberative planning rather than a raw process of between-group selection, but that only pushes back the inquiry to why we deliberatively plan that way.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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The actual process of establishing the convention might involve deliberative planning rather than a raw process of between-group selection, but that only pushes back the inquiry to why we deliberatively plan that way.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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The actual process of establishing the convention might involve deliberative planning rather than a raw process of between-group selection, but that only pushes back the inquiry to why we deliberatively plan that way.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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Rather, these changes should be made, thoughtfully and deliberatively, by Congress and the Congressional committees that have jurisdiction over Social Security, not by Simpson.
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Last week the US Federal Reserve announced it would print $600bn £370bn to flood the American banking system in an attempt to boost the economy, an action seen in Beijing and Berlin as a deliberatively provocative act to devalue the dollar against other currencies.
Weakening the welfare state just doesn't add up Will Hutton 2010
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And we want changes to our laws to be made deliberatively and legally.
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But then, secondly and more deliberatively, literally when the dust settles, we do have to find some way of trying to bring North Korea back into a sensible dialogue.
Interview - Lateline ABC - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 2009
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On a more complex, and more empirically adequate, account of practical reason, conditional altruism, cooperation, and reciprocity may be deliberatively rational choices; therefore we would expect a social group consisting of rational individuals to show signs of cooperation and conditional altruism.
Archive 2009-02-01 Daniel Little 2009
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If we put it out in a manner that we provide to state officials, maybe we can think about putting it out more deliberatively, more thoughtfully in the future.
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