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The idea was to let independent operators use the same name, food, supplies, logo and even building design in exchange for a fee.
The Queen Regent, who resisted any such idea, preferred to resign and let Espartero become regent instead in 1840.
According to interviews with Norm Prescott, Paramount offered Roddenberry a substantial sum of money to abandon creative control of the project and let Filmation proceed with their " kiddy space cadet " idea.
Thorpe, however, convinced Warner to let him try some rushing plays in practice against the school team's defense ; Warner assumed he would be tackled easily and give up the idea.
Paul Martin-former finance minister and past Prime Minister of Canada-once held that full employment could be achieved, yet let go of this idea after gaining power.
Rumours of a possible reunion of the original Genesis line-up began circulating in 2004 after Phil Collins stated in an interview that he was open to the idea of sitting back behind the drums and " let Peter be the singer.
With the post-war rapid contraction of military orders Cosmos Engineering went bankrupt, and the Air Ministry let it be known that it would be a good idea if the Bristol Aeroplane Company purchased it.
The idea that they should do so originated with Elijah Cadman who, at The Salvation Army's ' War Congress ' in August 1878 said " I would like to wear a suit of clothes that would let everyone know I meant war to the teeth and salvation for the world ".
Ramesses III claims that he incorporated the Sea Peoples as subject peoples and settled them in Southern Canaan, although there is no clear evidence to this effect ; the pharaoh, unable to prevent their gradual arrival in Canaan, may have claimed that it was his idea to let them reside in this territory.
Having no idea how to solve their problems, they pilfer some wine from the house, the taste of which inspires them to an even bolder theft-a set of oracles that Cleon has always refused to let anyone else see.
On February 16, 1951, two lawyers-turned-producers Arthur Krim ( of Eagle-Lion Films ) and Robert Benjamin approached Pickford and Chaplin with a wild idea: let them take over United Artists for five years.
But the idea was anyhow: The communists, we still let that happen calmly ; and the trade unions, we also let that happen ; and we even let the Social Democrats happen.
While each concert was professionally mastered, the recordings capture everything that happened onstage and for preservation's sake the band chose not to edit anything out, singer / guitarist Guy Picciotto explained to the New York Times "“ We liked this idea of, ‘ Let ’ s just let it be everything ,’ “ Mr. Picciotto said.
He later wrote that " My feeling, however, is that Asquith has no hope whatsoever of making such an arrangement and that his present idea is simply to let things drift in the meantime ..
Starting from Equation ( 2 ),, let us set The idea is to choose to make Equation ( 2 ) coincide with the identity
In the United States, the experiment of grilling was tried in 1867, where tiny squares were embossed into the paper after the stamp was printed, the idea being that this would be break up the paper fibers and let more ink be absorbed into the paper.
Despite praise from other Imagineers, Disney did not like the idea of a run-down building in his pristine park, hence his well-known saying, " We'll take care of the outside and let the ghosts take care of the inside.
It was soon realised that a performing version of only two movements did not give listeners a clear idea of the entire symphony, let alone constitute a complete artistic statement, so in the 1940s the American Mahler enthusiast Jack Diether tried to encourage several notable composers to realise the work.
He wrote, " There is no warrant for attributing any particular idea the report, let alone all of them, to any one participant.
Various other conferences were held in the next 20 years at which the question came up, in which Parkes took a leading part, but in October 1884 he was blowing cold and suggesting that it would be " better to let the idea of federation mature in men's minds ", and New South Wales then stood out of the proposed federal council scheme.
"... I knew there were a number of Dickinson poems addressed to her sister, Sue, so one week I read all 1, 700 poems of Emily Dickinson ... and I copied out about 35 of them by hand, Knussen told Tom Service in London's The Guardian I have no idea where the notes for this piece come from ... It seemed to want to be written ... I wasn't sure whether it ... ought to be let out at all ... because I didn't want it to be a self-indulgent thing.

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Were any of us interested enough in the idea to do it for her, by proxy so to speak??
The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.
Abby May described her idea: " I thought it would afford a daily opportunity for the children, indeed all of us, to interchange thought and sentiment ".
This section gives us his idea of revelation as an event, as opposed to a process.
But no reasoning can ever give us a new, original, simple idea ; as this philosopher himself confesses.
Underlying all of this, however, is the idea that " Some things are up to us and some are not up to us " and we must react and interact with those things accordingly.
" The idea is that, faced with an opportunity to steal a book because we can get away with it, moral obligation itself has no power to stop us unless we feel an obligation.
Wittgenstein rejects the idea that ostensive definitions can provide us with the meaning of a word.
The idea then is that we get our concept of God's qualities — his ability to create, his knowledge, his feelings for us, and so forth — by analogy with experience of our own minds.
God knows that the plan of striking the towers had not occurred to us, but the idea came to me when things went just too far with the American-Israeli alliance's oppression and atrocities against our people in Palestine and Lebanon.
Its faintness gives us an idea how our Sun would appear when viewed from even so close a distance as this.
In today's cohabiting relationships, forty percent of households include children, giving us an idea of how cohabitation could be considered a new normative type of family dynamic.
This diagram gives us an idea about decoding: if a received sequence doesn't fit this graph, then it was received with errors, and we must choose the nearest correct ( fitting the graph ) sequence.
" The art museum is one of the places that give us the highest idea of man.
It is useful because it gives us an idea of the melodic qualities of the tuning, and because if R is a rational number N / D, so is ( 3R + 1 )/( 5R + 2 ) or ( 3N + D )/( 5N + 2D ), which is the size of fifth in terms of logarithms base 2, and which immediately tells us what division of the octave we will have.
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, who developed Reconstructionist Judaism and taught at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary of America, also rejected the idea of a personal God, Kaplan instead thought of God " as a force, like gravity, built into the very structure of the universe ," believing that " since the universe is constructed to enable us to gain personal happiness and communal solidarity when we act morally, it follows that there is a moral force in the universe ; this force is what the Constructionists mean by God ," although some Reconstructionists do believe in a personal God.
Ovid's Heroides give us an idea of how ancient and, in particular, Roman authors imagined Helen in her youth: she is presented as a young princess wrestling naked in the palaestra ; an image alluding to a part of girls ' physical education in classical ( and not in Mycenaean ) Sparta.
This it is which gives some notion of God, while yet beyond all our conceptions — our very incapacity of fully grasping Him affords us the idea of what He really is.
In his excited response dated October 26, 1937, Disney wrote that he felt " all steamed up over the idea of Stokowski working with us ... The union of Stokowski and his music, together with the best of our medium, would be the means of a success and should lead to a new style of motion picture presentation.
The coins of Thurii are of great beauty ; their number and variety indeed gives us a higher idea of the opulence and prosperity of the city than we should gather from the statements of ancient writers.
To give a physical description of Socrates ' body is to say that Socrates is sitting, but it does not give us any idea why it came to be that he was sitting in the first place.
The former give us a very good idea of the administration of an ancient temple.

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