This idea was initially disputed by another Swiss scientist, Louis Agassiz, but when he undertook to disprove it, he ended up affirming his colleague's hypothesis.

France's hegemony over continental Europe was ended and the idea of a balance of power became a part of the international order.

Bart's actions resulted in frequent beatings by Nelson and his gang, but finally ended when Bart received help from Herman, who came up with the idea of standing up to Nelson and his gang by pelting them with water balloons.

After the war ended in 1945 the idea of Birobidzhan as a potential home for Jewish refugees revived slightly.

There are other theories, from a sudden death to a range of legends that talk of Orosius ’ s final arrival in Hispania and his founding of a monastery near to Cabo de Palos where he ended his days, although this latter idea now seems improbable.

Taking the idea back to basics, he left the James Bond pastiche idea behind and ended up thinking more of The Shadow ; " suddenly I was engaged and enthusiastic about the idea ".

The singular message that the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi strives to convey is the idea that the history of the Sassanid Empire was a complete and immutable whole: it started with Keyumars, the first man, and ended with his fiftieth scion and successor, Yazdegerd III, six thousand years of history of Iran.

When The Prime Movers ended in 1989, Jah Paul Jo hatched the idea for a new group that would call itself " Dread Zeppelin.

In spite of its long name ( for historical reasons ) the idea of the SS2PL mechanism is simple: " Release all locks applied by a transaction only after the transaction has ended.

The idea eventually ended up at 3M, where the concept was refined and the design was licensed to established floppy drive makers Matsushita ( Panasonic ) and Mitsubishi.

The Northeast Line of the rail system, which has ended in Doraville for two decades, was considered for extension into Gwinnett County as far as northeast as Norcross, Georgia, but this idea was cut off when the voters of that county declined to approve sales-tax funding for it.

The other parties in Parliament also attacked the idea as did three Progressive Conservative Members of Parliament, David Kilgour, Pat Nowlan, and Alex Kindy, who ended up leaving the Progressive Conservative caucus as a result.

Mason's idea was to remove what American railroad men saw as the biggest disadvantages of the Fairlie-its cramped space for fuel and water caused by its double ended design ( not very useful on American railroads where there was always ample room for a turntable or wye ), its cramped cab caused by the joined double boilers, and to some degree its poor riding.

( One episode featured the idea of their having a romance, but ultimately ended without their getting together.

" With Gaines, the idea of using out-of-state scholarships to meet the test of separate but equal legally ended forever and everywhere in the United States ," Lavergne says.

* Folklore. org — Andy Hertzfeld himself on how the Switcher idea was born and fortunately ended up in the hands of Bill Gates

The conversion of the Roy Rogers chain ended in a customer revolt so serious that they actually aborted the whole idea and returned the Roy Rogers brand to stores initially converted.

He took this idea to Colt who flatly rejected it and ended up firing White within a few years.

When the war ended, nationalistic feelings were so strong that DMK gave up the separate Dravida nation idea.

Roy Thomas briefly toyed with the idea of giving the character super-powers based on Sandy's time as a sand-monster but this was dropped because Thomas and others felt he could have ended up as the DC equivalent to Marvel's Sandman.

Simon Pegg's portrayal in the 2009 Star Trek film has Scotty stuck working at an isolated outpost as punishment for beaming Admiral Jonathan Archer's prized beagle from one planet to the next — and having no idea where it ended up.

This was contrary to the traditional Christian view that charismatic experiences had ended with the Apostles, the idea that modern Christians could experience charismatic " gifts " such as visions became a common theme in these revivals.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

Their names had not come up in any discussions with Laura, and he had no idea what they would be like.

He loathed the idea of drying up swamps or the chills of malaria or of leaving his natural birthright.

He also bought a huge square of pegboard for hanging up his tools, and lumber for his workbench, sandpaper and glue and assorted nails, levels and T squares and plumb lines and several gadgets that he had no idea how to use or what they were for.

While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.

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.

Alfred Wallenstein, the conductor, sensitive accompanist that he is, picked up the idea and led the orchestra here with a sense of brooding, poetic mystery.

Dr. Bonnor supports the idea that the universe both expands and contracts, that in several billion years the expansion will slow up and reverse itself and that the contraction will set in.

For one thing, it put paid to his idea of taking up medicine as a career ... His uniqueness lay in his universalism.

He also keeps a diary, full of his observations of life in Oran, which Rieux incorporates into the narrative .</ br > It is Tarrou who first comes up with the idea of organizing teams of volunteers to fight the plague.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

Meanwhile, the force under Hastein set out to march up the Thames Valley, possibly with the idea of assisting their friends in the west.

Back at the hotel, Hapgood comes up with an idea, telling Fay to destroy the inmates ' records.

Writers Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil suggested the idea of a character that the lads idolize even though he beats them up ; Judge based Todd on a teenaged bully who lived near him and terrified him as a kid.

I came up with the idea of split-screen, to be able to show the actual audience involvement, to trace the life of the audience and that of the play as they merge in and out of each other.

Noth thought the History was composed by a single individual, but this idea has been more or less given up and modern scholars argue for multiple authors active over a considerable period, culminating in the mid-6th century.

The collects of the Breviary are largely drawn from the Gelasian and other Sacramentaries, and they are used to sum up the dominant idea of the festival in connection with which they happen to be used.

Although he wanted the opportunity to put his principles in practice, Confucius gave up on this idea in the end.

This idea was taken up strongly in the training of Beaux-Arts architecture, ca 1875-1915: see architecture parlante.

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, recalled that when he asked Lu Weidong, a teacher at the party school in Yan ' an, why this is the case, Lu responded that the idea of the party having its own website was " redundant " and that " All the important media is owned by the Party, so we have no need to set up a website.

The concept was much improved by the Italian Roberto Valturio in 1463, who devised a boat with five sets, where the parallel cranks are all joined to a single power source by one connecting-rod, an idea also taken up by his compatriot Francesco di Giorgio.

He had first come up with the idea when he developed a wish to see his paintings move, and he subsequently began discussing the idea of creating an animation with an artist named Bruce Samuelson.

When the Fujiko Fujio duo broke up in 1987, the very idea of an official ending to the series was never discussed.

In 1874, the British priest Isaac Taylor brought up the idea of a genetic relationship between Etruscan and Hungarian.