However, since this treaty was mutually rescinded by the United States and Nicaragua in 1970, the idea of another canal in Nicaragua still periodically resurfaces.

The idea of building a canal through Central America is a very old one.

The canal idea was discussed seriously by businessmen and governments throughout the 19th century.

In the 1520s and 1530s, the Spanish crown had ordered surveys of the isthmus to determine the feasibility of such a canal, but the idea was soon abandoned.

The idea of constructing such a canal was first considered by Miles Standish of the Plymouth Colony in 1623, and Pilgrims scouted the low-lying stretch of land between the Manomet and the Scusset rivers for potential routes.

Charles V is credited with the first idea of constructing an American Isthmus canal in Panama as early as 1520.

The alleged motive is that some American business leaders and politicians strongly opposed the negotiations between Torrijos and a group of Japanese businessmen led by Shigeo Nagano, who were promoting the idea of a new, larger, sea-level canal for Panama.

The first known idea to build a canal between the River Mersey and the River Trent was put forward in 1755, though no action was taken at that time.

For local industries along the route of the proposed canal, whose operations relied on water from local rivers and brooks which the canal might also use, its construction was a controversial idea.

The idea for a canal to Liskeard was first investigated in 1777 when Edmund Leach and a gentleman from Liskeard proposed a manure canal, which would be used to transport lime and sand upwards from Looe.

Thomas Telford revived the idea of a ship canal in 1824, which would have taken over the line of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal – enabling boats to reach the south coast – at a cost of £ 1. 75 million.

However, the idea of turning the canal over to automobiles was opposed by some, including United States Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas.

Popular response to and press coverage of the hike turned the tide against the parkway idea and, on January 8, 1971, the canal was designated a National Historical Park.

Three Roman rulers considered the idea but all suffered violent deaths ; the historian Suetonius tells us that the Roman dictator Julius Caesar considered digging a canal through the isthmus but was assassinated before he could commence the project.

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 region was suffering from the effects of the Long Depression, and for the canal's proponents, who argued that the scheme would boost competition and create jobs, the idea of a ship canal made sound economic sense.

This work struck de Lesseps's imagination, and gave him the idea of constructing a canal across the African isthmus.

The idea of connecting Dublin to the Shannon was proposed as early as 1715, and in 1757 the Irish Parliament granted Thomas Omer £ 20, 000 to start construction of a canal.

This gave Austrians the idea to dig a canal to connect the Danube with the Black Sea at the shortest point before the Delta, between Rasova or Cernavodă ( Bogaz Köi ) and Constanţa ( Küstendjie ), and a parallel railway.

As the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia ( 1859 ) remained formally Ottoman vassals, and moreover Dobruja was directly administered by the Ottomans, the idea to build the canal was not of interest to Romanians.

The idea to build a canal became a national issue, which could promote Romania's international trade.

Instead, Sage came up with the idea of a canal to float logs from the Black River to supply the mills of Lake Simcoe.

He travelled across the United States spreading the idea of Aesthetics in a speech called " The English Renaissance.

The NEXTSTEP operating system further developed the idea, incorporating a feature whereby the right or middle mouse button brought the main menu ( which was vertical and automatically changed depending on context ) to the location of the mouse, thereby eliminating the need to move the mouse pointer all the way across the large ( for the time ) NextStep screen.

De Camp and Ley have claimed ( in their Lands Beyond ) that Leonhard Euler also proposed a hollow-Earth idea, getting rid of multiple shells and postulating an interior sun across to provide light to advanced inner-Earth civilization but they provide no references ; indeed, Euler did not propose a hollow-Earth, but there is a slightly related thought experiment.

Based on an idea of Takahiro Fujimoto, who is a specialist in automobile industry and a philosopher of the international competitiveness, Fujimoto and Shiozawa developed a discussion in which how the factories of the same multi-national firms compete between them across borders.

With the help of meta-analysis, Hunter & Schmidt advanced the idea of validity generalization, which suggests that some performance predictors, specifically cognitive ability tests ( see especially Hunter and Hunter & Schmidt ) have a relatively stable and positive relation to job performance across all jobs.

Ribbentrop first seems to have considered the idea of a pact with the Soviet Union after an unsuccessful visit to Warsaw in January 1939, when the Poles again refused Ribbentrop's demands about Danzig, the " extra-territorial " roads across the Polish Corridor and the Anti-Comintern Pact.

He not only accepted Charpentier's and Schimper's idea that some of the alpine glaciers had extended across the wide plains and valleys drained by the Aar and the Rhône, but he went still farther.

Herschel conceived the idea that stars were initially scattered across space, but later became clustered together as star systems because of gravitational attraction.

The origins of this was parodied in a famous scene from the movie Forrest Gump when Forrest is on his multiple jogs across America, and wipes his face on a T shirt given him by a struggling salesman, and on the shirt, as if transferred there by Forrest's face, is the image of the happy face, whereupon the man gets his idea.

In May 2003 the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi inaugurated the MOSE project ( Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico ), an experimental model for evaluating the performance of hollow floatable gates ; the idea is to fix a series of 78 hollow pontoons to the sea bed across the three entrances to the lagoon.

The word coven remained largely unused in English until 1921 when Margaret Murray promoted the idea, now much disputed, that all witches across Europe met in groups of thirteen which they called " covens ".

The idea of internalised unconscious processes in the mind was also instigated in antiquity and has been explored across a wide variety of cultures.

Although the population exchange of the Arabs of Palestine with Jews from across the Arab world took place around the period of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the idea of the transfer of Arabs from Palestine, usually to Iraq ( where there was a sizable Iraqi Jewish population ), had been considered about half a century beforehand.

No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau.

As " Muad ' Dib ," Paul becomes the central figure of a new religion, and reluctantly unleashes a bloody jihad in his name across the universe ; Paul struggles with the potential idea of seizing divine control over his newly minted empire, only to finally escape from the burden of his destiny by placing it on his sister Alia and his offspring Leto II and Ghanima.

Calhoun's basic concern for protecting the diverse interests of minority interests is expressed in his chief contribution to political science — the idea of a concurrent majority across different groups as distinguished from a numerical majority.

During the French Revolution, after seeing the speed with which the carriages of the French flying artillery maneuvered across the battlefields, French military surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey applied the idea of ambulances, or " flying carriages ", for rapid transport of wounded soldiers to a central place where medical care was more accessible and effective.

By widespread use it exemplified the idea of an operating system that was conceptually the same across various hardware platforms.

An individual understands language better than they are able to speak communicate it, they may have a lot to say but have difficulties organizing and retrieving the words to get an idea across beyond what is expected for his / her developmental stage.

The main concerns identified by Kallberg are the lack of control over the actual production of the products once they are certified, the absence of a permanently staffed organizational body that monitors compliance, and he challenges the idea that the trust in the Common Criteria IT-security certifications will be maintained across geopolitical boundaries.

However, the idea has been used across every genre to varying degrees.

Many Libertarian crossword editors would, however, accept " reach first " as it would be considered to reasonably get the idea across.

The idea of building a fixed link across the strait between Labrador and Newfoundland, known as the Newfoundland-Labrador fixed link, has been raised numerous times in recent decades following an unsuccessful attempt to build a tunnel carrying electrical wires in the mid-1970s.

Wolfman came up with an idea that would reach across the entirety of the DC Universe and its half-century of history.