Thus the student of literature may sometimes find it helpful to classify a poem or an essay as being in idea or in ideal content or subject matter typical or atypical of its period.

The very idea of there being `` count rules '' implies that there is some sort of proportion to be expected between the amount of congestive activity and the extent of the breakaway ( run up or run down ) movement.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

Indeed, he rather relished the idea of being of the same rough texture as some of his subjects.

Scholars in support of the idea of Amos being from the North also say it makes more sense because of Amaziah's accusation of conspiracy found in chapter seven, verse 10.

Jay comments that this is sometimes seen as an early reference to the idea of the transmission of grace through the apostolic succession which in later centuries was understood as being specifically transmitted through the laying on of hands by a bishop within the apostolic succession ( the " pipeline theory ").

Among Schoenberg's teaching was the idea that the unity of a musical composition depends upon all its aspects being derived from a single basic idea ; this idea was later known as developing variation.

The Talmud amplifies this idea, mentioning her as being one of the " four women of surpassing beauty in the world.

Alexander advances the idea that it is would not be God ’ s fault to create a being that would bind the ‘ corrupt ’ with the ‘ clean ’.

* The idea of replicant models being mass-produced, and in particular a woman identical to Rachael existing, is also from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

For the writer of the Book of Hosea, this idea of marriage is not far from the truth, but it is a " male perspective " that is being endorsed here.

Deane and J. R. Thomson write this valid conclusion, “ The Book of Obadiah is occupied with one subject – the punishment of Edom for its cruel and unbrotherly love conduct towards Judah ...” One can link this idea of punishment to one of the major prophets “ Ezekiel ” who “... interprets the exile to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem as deserved punishments for the sins of those who themselves committed them .” Verses 3-7 in Obadiah explain to the reader the reason for the punishment theme, “ Confidence in one ’ s power, intelligence, allies, or the topographical features of one ’ s territory is often mentioned as an attribute of those who foolishly confront the Lord and are consequently punished .” Although destruction is vital to understanding Obadiah, it is of note to understand the destruction being a consequence of action.

A popular legend at the time was of the Amazons, a tribe of fierce female warriors who socialized with men only for procreation and even removed one breast to become better warriors ( the idea being that the right breast would interfere with the operation of a bow and arrow ).

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

The idea of being " born again in Christ " inspired some common European forenames: French René / Renée ( also used in the Netherlands ), Dutch Renaat / Renate, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Renato / Renata, Latin Renatus / Renata, which all mean " reborn ", " born again ".

A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

This idea may be traced back to early Chinese shamanistic beliefs, such as the king being the axle between the sky, human beings, and the Earth.

The machines are released on a deserted island, the idea being that once the available metal is all used and they start fighting each other, natural selection will enhance their design.

In the Superman: The Animated Series episode " The Late Mr. Kent ", wherein Clark Kent is presumed dead, Superman expresses frustration at the idea of not being Clark and having to be someone else instead (" I am Clark Kent.

In contrast to the Jewish view of being morally balanced, Original Sin refers to the idea that the sin of Adam and Eve's disobedience ( sin " at the origin ") has passed on a spiritual heritage, so to speak.

However, Brian Wilson has stated that the idea of the record being a " concept album " is mainly within the way the album was produced and structured.

Instead of records being stored in some sort of linked list of free-form records as in Codasyl, Codd's idea was to use a " table " of fixed-length records.

Hofstadter's 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop carries his vision of consciousness considerably further, including the idea that each human " I " is distributed over numerous brains, rather than being limited to precisely one brain.

For many nights afterward, the idea of her having been so close to me in that imagined bed would return and fill me with obscure and painful desires, would cause me to lie awake in shame, tossing with irresolution, longing to fall into a deep sleep.

The idea that a curve may come arbitrarily close to a line without actually becoming the same may seem counter to everyday experience.

Good rhyming couplets tend to " explode " as both the rhyme and the idea come to a quick close in two lines.

Charles Baudelaire, in the later, " metaphysical " phase of dandyism defined the dandy as one who elevates æsthetics to a living religion, that the dandy's mere existence reproaches the responsible citizen of the middle class: " Dandyism in certain respects comes close to spirituality and to stoicism " and " These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking ....

Carpenter had observed from close examination of everyday experience that under certain circumstances the mere idea of a muscular movement could be sufficient to produce a reflexive, or automatic, contraction or movement of the muscles involved, albeit in a very small degree.

Cuba was close to the United States and had slavery, so the idea appealed to Southerners but was unwelcome in the North.

Weizsäcker favoured the idea of a " chemical " destruction of Czechoslovakia in which Germany, Hungary, and Poland would close their frontiers to destabilize Czechoslovakia economically.

Bruckner remarks that the name of the Lombards stands in close relation to the worship of Odin, whose many names include " the Long-bearded " or " the Grey-bearded ", and that the Lombard given name Ansegranus (" he with the beard of the gods ") shows that the Lombards had this idea of their chief deity.

The sheer number of witnesses presents unique difficulties, but it also gives scholars a better idea of how close modern Bibles are to the original versions.

Nestorius ' opponents found his teaching too close to the heresy of adoptionism – the idea that Christ had been born a man who had later been " adopted " as God's son.

The underlying idea is that close approach of an electron to the nucleus of the atom necessarily increases its kinetic energy, an application of the uncertainty principle of Heisenberg.

Bennett only recovered pterosaurs as close relatives of the prolacertiformes after removing characteristics of the hind limb from his analysis, in an attempt to test the idea that these characters are the result of convergent evolution between pterosaurs and dinosaurs.

The idea has long persisted that Paeonia belongs in Ranunculales, close to Glaucidium.

In social sciences, including economics, the idea of standardization is close to the solution for a coordination problem, a situation in which all parties can realize mutual gains, but only by making mutually consistent decisions.

Its faintness gives us an idea how our Sun would appear when viewed from even so close a distance as this.

When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate ...

The plasma could be a coronal cloud of a central object or a transient plasma, where the energy source is unknown, but could be related to the idea of a close binary.

Because of their close connection with computer science, this idea is also advocated by mathematical intuitionists and constructivists in the " computability " tradition ( see below ).

He closed the theatre and had every intention to close it for good, until a friend agreed that the venture was a silly idea.

With his close friend, the late Senator John Heinz ( R-PA ), he authored “ Project 88 ”, outlining the groundbreaking “ Cap and Trade ” idea which became law in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

Ancient Greek mathematics contributed many important developments to the field of mathematics, including the basic rules of geometry, the idea of formal mathematical proof, and discoveries in number theory, mathematical analysis, applied mathematics, and approached close to establishing integral calculus.

The idea was for Japanese probes and the pre-existing American probe International Cometary Explorer to make long distance measurements, followed by the Russian Vegas which would locate the nucleus, and the resulting information sent back would allow Giotto to precisely target very close to the nucleus.

It was encouraged for pragmatic reasons, such as natural trellising, but mainly with the idea that different species of plant may thrive more when close together.

" A pointillist style, which at very very close to it, you don't have any idea what you've made until you step back from it.

* Our common-sense understanding of belief may not be entirely correct, but it is close enough to make some useful predictions-This view argues that we will eventually reject the idea of belief as we use it now, but that there may be a correlation between what we take to be a belief when someone says " I believe that snow is white " and how a future theory of psychology will explain this behaviour.