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Reconsideration   /rikənsˌɪdərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Reconsideration

noun
1.
A consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision.
2.
Thinking again about a choice previously made.  Synonyms: afterthought, rethink, second thought.





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"Reconsideration" Quotes from Famous Books



... in cases of treason. He has also a veto upon all bills sent up by the legislature. If he exercise this veto he returns the bill to the legislature with his reasons for so doing. If the bill on reconsideration by the Houses be again passed by a majority of two-thirds in each house, it becomes law in spite of the Governor's veto. The veto of the President at Washington is of the same nature. Such are the powers of the Governor. But though they are very full, the Governor of each ...
— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope
... biographer notes, he never committed himself unreservedly to the Hegelian credo. "While he regarded Hegel's system as the 'last word of philosophy,' he did not occupy himself with the exposition of it, but with the reconsideration of the elements in Kant of which it was the development." That is, he was a neo-Kantian as well as a neo-Hegelian. Of his constructive thinking in these channels the most complete embodiment is his ...
— An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times • Thomas Hill Green
... certificate of the engineers of his having accomplished the result. He agreed to have a bill drawn on that principle. He brought it to me afterward. I went over it very carefully, inserting some additional securities for the Government. I then took it to the next meeting of the Committee, moved a reconsideration of the vote of the previous week. That was carried by a bare majority of one vote. I then moved the new bill as a substitute for the old one. It was adopted. The bill passed the House and Senate under which the Eads jetties were constructed and vessels drawing over twenty- eight feet of water passed ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... REALLY, Tess?" said Abraham, turning to her much impressed, on reconsideration of this rare information. "How would it have been if we had pitched on ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy
... it arrives. As well as she knew her own name, she realized that in her answer to that evening's invitation lay the choice of her future life. She was at the turning of the ways—a turning that admitted of no reconsideration. Dividing at her feet, each equally free, were the trails of the natural and the artificial. For a time they kept side by side; but in the distance they were as separate as the two ends of the earth. By no possibility could both be followed. She must choose between them, and abide ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge


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