Demagogues of this sort found communist bogeys lurking behind any new idea that would run counter to stereotyped notions.

The idea behind our design is modular units, or panelization.

The idea behind this program is to convert from a centrally planned economy to a market economy in a short space of time.

This " power " that lies behind nature and that keeps everything in balance became a natural forerunner to the idea of dharma.

The assumption behind this legislation is the idea that having economic activity decentralized among many different industry participants is better for the economy than having one or a few large players in an industry.

Sacrificing one's short-term self-interest to maximize one's long-term self-interest is one form of " rational self-interest " which is the idea behind most philosophers ' advocacy of ethical egoism.

The idea of a relation between the language of the Aegean Linear scripts was taken into consideration as the main hypothesis by Michael Ventris before discovering that in fact the language behind the more modern Linear B script was Mycenean, a Greek dialect.

The term FAQ, and the idea behind it, has spread offline as well, to the point where paper instructions for products may contain a FAQ.

Alain de Benoist of the Nouvelle Droite ( New Right ) produced a highly critical essay on Hayek's work in an issue of Telos, citing the flawed assumptions behind Hayek's idea of " spontaneous order " and the authoritarian, totalizing implications of his free-market ideology.

John Beck's dealings with Willis O ' Brien's project were done behind his back, and O ' Brien was never credited for his idea.

There had been three attempts in 1606, 1667, and 1689 to unite the two countries by Acts of Parliament, but it was not until the early 18th century that the idea had the will of both political establishments behind them, albeit for rather different reasons.

Most hierarchies use a more specific vocabulary pertaining to their subject, but the idea behind them is the same.

Using the same general idea behind aeroponics except fogponics uses a 5-10 micron mist within the rooting chamber and as use for a foliar feeding mechanism.

The idea behind the plan was for Israel to ship weapons through an intermediary ( identified as Manucher Ghorbanifar ) to the Islamic republic as a way of aiding a supposedly moderate, politically influential faction within the regime of Ayatollah Khomeni who were believed to be seeking a rapprochement with the United States ; after the transaction, the U. S. would reimburse Israel with the same weapons, while receiving monetary benefits.

* The subjective approach, which takes into consideration i. the idea behind the treaty, ii.

In the post – World War I euphoria, the idea of a ' makeable society ' was an important catalyst behind the social engineering of the ILO architects.

* A Sign in Space — The idea that the galaxy slowly revolves becomes a story about a being who is desperate to leave behind some unique sign of his existence.

The basic idea behind hedonistic thought is that pleasure is the only thing that is good for a person.

This is the idea behind the definition of Fock space.

The idea behind team effectiveness is that a group of people working together can achieve much more than if the individuals of the team were working on their own.

The idea behind this act was to give everyone in India the ability to marry outside the personal law under a civil marriage.

" That a community has different components whose interests must be balanced in any good regime is an idea with classical precedents, but Machiavelli's particularly extreme presentation is seen as a critical step towards the later political ideas of both a division of powers or checks and balances, ideas which lay behind the US constitution ( and most modern constitutions ).

That is not to put forward the idea that Faith No More was the sole catalyst behind what ultimately morphed into the nu metal of Jonathan Davis ' description.

The motivation behind this kink is the idea that in an oligopolistic or monopolistically competitive market, firms will not raise their prices because even a small price increase will lose many customers.

Even the idea and concept behind the Ampera was rooted in Opel with Frank Weber, the former " Global Vehicle Line Executive and Global Chief Engineer electric vehicle development ," being originally an Opel employee who was moved to the USA in order to advance the development of this concept in GM's home country instead of the German outpost that is Opel.

The idea of an east to west waterway link across southern England was first mentioned in Elizabethan times, between 1558 and 1603, to take advantage of the proximity of the rivers Avon and Thames, only apart at their closest.

Eventually, the experience of building long multi-level cuts with their own locks gave rise to the idea of building a " pure " canal, a waterway designed on the basis of where goods needed to go, not where a river happened to be.

The early railways were almost exclusively local concerns involved with conveying minerals to some waterway ; for them the gauge of the track was adopted to suit the wagons intended to be used, and it was typically in the range 4 ft to 4 ft 8½ in, and at first there was no idea of the need for any conformity with the gauge of other lines.

As the lower course of the Don approaches the lower course of the Volga near today's Volgograd, the idea of connecting the two rivers by an artificial waterway goes back a long way in history.

The idea of an east to west waterway link across southern England was first mentioned in Elizabethan times, between 1558 and 1603, to take advantage of the proximity of the rivers Avon and Thames, only apart at their closest.

The idea of creating a navigable waterway from the River Don to Barnsley along the course of the River Dearne was first proposed in 1773 by the Marquess of Rockingham.

First proposed in the Colonial period, the idea for a commercial waterway link between the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers did not receive serious attention until the advent of steamboat traffic in the early nineteenth century.

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that because of linguistic differences in grammar and usage, speakers of different languages conceptualize and experience the world differently.

In popular usage, this term is often used to refer to unfounded or weakly based speculation, leading to the idea that " It's not a conspiracy theory if it's actually true ".

However he concedes that " the idea of felony is indeed so generally connected with that of capital punishment, that we find it hard to separate them ; and to this usage the interpretations of the law do now conform.

A typical tech usage from the Linux Bible, 2005 characterizes the Unix software development philosophy as " one that can make your life a lot simpler once you grok the idea ".

This usage, emphasising the idea that the Germans were barbarians, was reinforced by Allied propaganda throughout the war.

In its modern usage, the idea that a part of the Americas has affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a " Latin race " and that it could, therefore, ally itself with " Latin Europe " in a struggle with " Teutonic Europe ", " Anglo-Saxon America " and " Slavic Europe ".

Scribe was revolutionary in a number of ways, not least that it introduced the idea of styles separated from the marked up document, and of a grammar controlling the usage of descriptive elements.

While the idea of markup language originated with text documents, there is an increasing usage of markup languages in other areas which involve the presentation of various types of information, including playlists, vector graphics, web services, content syndication, and user interfaces.

This usage has been criticized as a misnomer, since Sapir and Whorf did not in fact formulate a hypothesis for empirical research, and because it is unclear to what extent Sapir actually subscribed to the idea of language influencing thought.

Modern usage derives primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there.

" Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves.

In 1781 Vega tried to push further his idea in the Austrian Habsburg monarchy about the usage of the decimal metric system of units.

One key idea within the The Limits to Growth is the notion that if the rate of resource use is increasing, the amount of reserves cannot be calculated by simply taking the current known reserves and dividing by the current yearly usage, as is typically done to obtain a static index.

In certain countries, such as the United States, customary enema usage went well into the 20th century ; it was thought a good idea to cleanse the bowel in case of fever ; also, pregnant women were given enemas prior to labor, supposedly to reduce the risk of feces being passed during contractions.

While this usage is not new, the idea of biological conservation has been applied to the principles of ecology, biogeography, anthropology, economy and sociology to maintain biodiversity.

Though the term Noumenon did not come into common usage until Kant, the idea that undergirds it, that matter has an absolute existence which causes it to emanate certain phenomena, had historically been subjected to criticism.

Sometimes the old magical usage survives side by side with the more developed idea of a personal power to be approached in prayer.

A copyright is meant to regulate some aspects of the usage of expressions of a work, not an idea.

The basic idea is that each instruction is associated with a predicate ( the word here used similarly to its usage in predicate logic ) and that the instruction will only be executed if the predicate is true.

Henceforth, postmodern usage of the idea of civil society became divided into two main: as political society and as the third sector – apart from plethora of definitions.

In popular usage, the central feature of dialectic is the concept of " thesis, antithesis, synthesis "-when an idea or phenomenon ( thesis ) arises, it carries within itself the seed of its opposite ( antithesis ), and the interplay of these polarities leads to a synthesis which is somehow beyond the scope of either polarity alone.

One idea focuses on how the Internet has a positive or negative effect on people's lives though their usage of the Internet.

The ironic usage originates with the idea of suppressed mirth — biting one's tongue to prevent an outburst of laughter.