This was called the Great Idea ( Megali Idea ), and it was sustained by almost continuous rebellions against Ottoman rule in Greek-speaking territories, particularly Crete, Thessaly and Macedonia.

Trikoupis favoured co-operation with Great Britain in foreign affairs, the creation of infrastructure and an indigenous industry, raising protective tariffs and progressive social legislation, while the more populist Deligiannis depended on the promotion of Greek nationalism and the Megali Idea.

* Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books ( New York: Public Affairs, 2008 ).

* Tim Lacy, " Making a Democratic Culture: The Great Books Idea, Mortimer J. Adler, and Twentieth-Century America " ( Ph. D.

* Review of " A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books ," with a lengthy commentary on Adler

He wrote a series of works on the nature of poetry, including The Idea of Great Poetry ( 1925 ) and Romanticism ( 1926 ).

* Arthur O. Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press ( 1936 )

The Great Idea ( Μεγάλη Ιδέα ), the dream of uniting all Greek populations of the Ottoman Empire, thereby restoring the Byzantine Empire under Christian rule, led to his contemplating to enter the Crimean War at the side of Russia against Turkey and its British and French allies in 1853 ; the enterprise was unsuccessful, and resulted in renewed intervention by the two Great Powers and a second blockade of Piraeus port, forcing Greece to neutrality.

) His 1951 novel, The Great Idea ( reissued in 1966 as Time Will Run Back ) depicts rulers of a centrally-planned socialist dystopia discovering, amid the resulting economic chaos, the need to restore market pricing system, private ownership of capital goods and competitive markets.

* The Great Idea, 1951 ( titled Time Will Run Back in Great Britain, revised and rereleased with this title in 1966.

* The Great Idea Finder: Bubble Gum Retrieved September 29, 2011

Map of Megali Hellas ( Great Greece ) as proposed at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 by Eleftherios Venizelos, the leading major proponent of the Megali Idea at the time.

Although the Great Idea ceased to be a driving force behind Greek foreign policy, some remnants continued to influence Greek foreign policy throughout the remainder of the 20th century.

The occupation, resistance and the civil war initially put the Great Idea in the background.

In a stabilized Europe, the Great Idea has disappeared, since there is no longer any significant population of Greeks in Turkey.

* How to Kill a Great Idea !, June 1, 2007

This policy was called the Great Idea ( Megali Idea ).

* The Franklin Stove at The Great Idea Finder

Immense complexes known as " Great Houses " embodied worship at Chaco.

Its " head " was to be the Zamoyski palace, " backbone " Grodzka Street, crossing the Great Market Square from east to west, in the direction of the palace, and with the " arms " embodied by 10 streets intersecting the main streets: Solna street ( north of the Great Market Square ) and Bernardo Morando street ( south of the Great Market Square ).

According to Tucker, the Mugwumps embodied the liberalism of the 19th century, and their rejection by 20th century historians, who embraced the government intervention of the New Deal and the Great Society, is not surprising.

In Tao produces One-Wuji produces Taiji, it represents the Great Tao, embodied by Yuánshǐ Tiānwáng ( 混沌無極元始天王 ) " Heavenly King of the Void and Chaotic Primordial Beginning " at a time of pre-Creation when the Universe was still null and the cosmos are in disorder ; manifesting into the first of the Taoist Trinity, Yuanshi Tianzun.

He strove to achieve greater autonomy from the influence of Great Britain, as embodied principally in the acquiescent behavior of the Regent, Abdul Ilah and occasionally of his friend Nuri Al Said, and once resigned as Finance Minister in Nuri Pasha's cabinet in protest at a treaty of cooperation with Great Britain to which Nuri agreed.

Peter the Great had two wives, Yevdokiya Lopukhina ( the daughter of a minor noble ) and Marfa Skavronskaya ( a Lithuanian peasant, renamed Catherine after her conversion to Orthodoxy ) Catherine I ’ s rise through Peter I ’ s Table of Ranks from a simple peasant to empress, embodied the Petrine spirit, making it seems as though Peter I literally “ created ” her With the help of Aleksandr Menshikov ( her advisor, ex-lover and leader of the palace guards ), she gained the throne by emphasizing this connection to Peter I and her maternal nature.

His views on volcanic geology were delivered in his presidential addresses to the Geological Society of London in 1891 and 1892 and afterward embodied in his book The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain ( 1897 ).

The origin of the NYSBA was also embodied in the Great Depression during the 1930s and 1940s.

According to Hutchins, " The tradition of the West is embodied in the Great Conversation that began in the dawn of history and that continues to the present day ".

His views are embodied in his chief work, The Great Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man ( 1874 ; 3rd ed., 1894 ).

Pyotr Y Alexey, the third and final novel of Christ and Antichrist trilogy was published ( in Novy Puth, ## 1 – 5, 9 – 12 ), having as its focus the figure of Peter the Great as an ' embodied Antichrist ' – an idea the author shared with Russian raskolniki.

Above all, The Great Bordello provides a deeper understanding of the human desire to accomplish something of enduring value amidst commercial success and ruthless realities of life.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

One of the major short run factors that sparked The Great Merger Movement was the desire to keep prices high.

After the failed 1848 Revolution, the Great Powers did not support the Romanians ' expressed desire to officially unite in a single state, forcing Romania to proceed alone against the Turks.

The most famous example is It Happened One Night ; some critics believe that this portrayal of the upper class was brought about by the Great Depression, and the poor moviegoing public's desire to see the rich upper class taught a lesson in humanity.

This desire to restore a purer form of Christianity without an elaborate hierarchy contributed to the development of many groups during the Second Great Awakening, including the Mormons, Baptists and Shakers.

Crassus attacked Parthia not only because of its great source of riches, but because of a desire to match the military victories of his two major rivals, Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar.

" And with your courage and with your compassion and your desire, we will build the Great Society.

If this be a spirit of aggrandizement, the undersigned are prepared to admit, in that sense, its existence ; but they must deny that it affords the slightest proof of an intention not to respect the boundaries between them and European nations, or of a desire to encroach upon the territories of Great Britain.

The Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain their city as the second port of the country and the chief one for American trade.

The British drive for union between Great Britain and Ireland that passed in 1800 was motivated at least in part by a desire to restore order to Ireland, end sectarianism ( including the introduction of Catholic Emancipation ) and to ensure that Ireland would not become a staging post for a French invasion of Great Britain.

Lord Salisbury is also remembered as an adherent of the policy of " splendid isolation ", the desire to keep Great Britain out of European affairs and alliances.

The philosopher Lucian attacked the Cynics in his book " The Philosophies for Sale " in which he mocked the Cynics by stating " First ... stripping you of your luxury ... I will put a cloak on you ... Next I will compel you to undergo pains and hardships, sleeping on the ground, drinking nothing but water ... Leading this life you will say that your are happier than the Great King ... Frequent the most crowded market place ... and in desire to be solitary and uncommunicative ..."

The desire to impose order on the medieval street pattern of London dates back to the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) when Sir Christopher Wren drew up plans for rebuilding the city on the classical formal model, but that initiative was lost.

In this state of extreme danger, we have no alternative left but an abject submission to the will of those over-bearing tyrants, or a total separation from the crown and government of Great Britain, uniting and exerting the strength of all America for defense, and forming alliances with foreign powers for commerce and aid in war: Wherefore, appealing to the SEARCHER OF HEARTS for the sincerity of former declarations, expressing our desire to preserve a connection with that nation, and that we are driven from that inclination by their wicked councils, and the eternal laws of self-preservation,

If this be a spirit of aggrandizement, the undersigned are prepared to admit, in that sense, its existence ; but they must deny that it affords the slightest proof of an intention not to respect the boundaries between them and European nations, or of a desire to encroach upon the territories of Great Britain.

This desire to restore a purer form of Christianity played a role in the development of many groups during this period, known as the Second Great Awakening, including the Mormons, Baptists and Shakers.

This desire to restore a purer form of Christianity played a role in the development of many groups during this period, known as the Second Great Awakening, including the Mormons, Baptists and Shakers.

The Great Powers did not support the Romanians ' expressed desire to unite in a single state, forcing Romania to proceed alone against the Turks.

This version of Greece was designed by the Great Powers, who had no desire to see a larger Greek state supplant the Ottoman Empire.

The discovery of gold on the banks of the Amu Darya during the reign of Russia's Peter the Great, together with the desire of the Russian Empire to open a trade route to the Indus ( modern day Pakistan ), prompted an armed trade expedition to the region, led by Prince Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky, which was repelled by Khiva.

* Kwitny, Jonathan, " The Great Transportation Conspiracy: a juggernaut named desire ," Harper's, February 1981, pp. 14 – 15, 18, 20, 21

It would not do to make a fuss about the arrest of ' the leader ’ s favourite ,' and Stalin had no desire to arouse public interest in NKVD activity and the circumstances of the conduct of the Great Terror.