The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

In presenting it to other governments and to the United Nations, we could propose that every nation consider the formation of its own peace corps and that the United Nations sponsor the idea and form an international coordinating committee.

The idea for Big Brother is said to have come during a brainstorm session at the Dutch-based international television production firm Endemol, on March 10, 1997.

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.

Another German diplomat commented that Ribbentrop had the strange idea to " conduct international relations through aristocrats ".

Early on, Munk was a strong opponent of the German Occupation of Denmark ( 1940 – 1945 ), although he continually opposed the idea of democracy as such, preferring the idea of a " Nordic dictator " who should unite the Nordic countries and keep them neutral during periods of international crisis.

Another important weakness grew from the contradiction between the idea of collective security that formed the basis of the League and international relations between individual states.

This idea was opposed by Leon Trotsky and his followers who declared the need for an international " permanent revolution ".

Again, impressionism was a precursor: breaking with the idea of national schools, artists and writers adopted ideas of international movements.

Bloch vigorously supported the idea of international scholarly cooperation and tried unsuccessfully to set up an international journal with American support.

Created in 1922 ( although the idea of an international court was several centuries old ), the Court was initially met with a good reaction from states and academics alike, with many cases submitted to it for its first decade of operation.

The idea of an international court of justice arose in the political world at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899, where it was declared that arbitration between states was the easiest solution to disputes, providing a temporary panel of judges to arbitrate in such cases, the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

The failure of this endeavour, however, was closely followed by the development of a new idea, the revival of the ancient Olympic Games, the creation of a festival of international athleticism.

But while others had created Olympic contests within their countries, and broached the idea of international competition, it was Coubertin whose work would lead to the establishment of the International Olympic Committee and the organisation of the first modern Olympic Games.

The idea for reviving the Olympic Games as an international competition came to Coubertin in 1889, apparently independently of Brookes, and he spent the following five years organising an international meeting of athletes and sports enthusiasts that might make it happen.

This idea gained him international fame and led to the establishment of the Glacial Theory.

The idea for a router ( called " gateways " at the time ) initially came about through an international group of computer networking researchers called the International Network Working Group ( INWG ).

The party opposes foreign aid, asking that no further funds be appropriated for any kind of foreign aid program, and encourage the idea that the United States terminate its participation in international lending institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the Export-Import Bank.

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

The U. S. government encouraged the idea of an international corporation working in tandem with the World Bank to invest in private enterprises without accepting guarantees from governments, without managing those enterprises, and by collaborating with third party investors.

When the French Government first investigated the idea of overhauling their system of measurement, Talleyrand, in the late 1780s, acting on Concordet's advice, invited Riggs, a British Parliamentarian and Thomas Jefferson, the American Secretary of State to George Washington, to work with the French in producing an international standard by promoting legislation in their respective legislative bodies.

They founded a semi-secret society — Narodna Odbrana ( National Defense ) which gave the Greater Serbia idea a focus and an organization.

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.

The BioLogos Foundation, an organization that promotes the idea of theistic evolution, uses the term " evolutionism " to describe " the atheistic worldview that so often accompanies the acceptance of biological evolution in public discourse.

Greenpeace also states that " there was no single founder, and the name, idea, spirit, tactics, and internationalism of the organization all can be said to have separate lineages ".

The idea of the TAS is that it is an organization that exists to support what are basically ' transients ,' or ' wanderers ' in the game's terminology around the galaxy.

Just before Trotsky's return, the Mensheviks had independently come up with the same idea that Trotsky had: an elected non-party revolutionary organization representing the capital's workers, the first Soviet (" Council ") of Workers.

In economics, the idea of monopoly is important for the study of market structures, which directly concerns normative aspects of economic competition, and provides the basis for topics such as industrial organization and economics of regulation.

* They give mid and lower-level managers a good idea of the future plans for each department in an organization.

The idea was to create an early unitary administrative organization similar to what later became Nueva España ( now Mexico ).

The first Monte de Piedad organization in Spain was founded in Madrid, and from there the idea was transferred to New Spain by Pedro Romero de Terreros, the Count of Santa Maria de Regla and Knight of Calatrava.

Recent surveys by the Barna Group, a Christian research nonprofit organization, have found that a quarter of U. S. Christians, including 10 percent of all born-again Christians, embrace the idea.

He used these collages to show his rejection of the Harmon Foundation ’ s, the Chicago arts organization, emphasis on the idea that African Americans must reproduce their culture in their art.

The most one may read into the Torcaso footnote is the idea that a particular non-theistic group calling itself the " Fellowship of Humanity " qualified as a religious organization under California law.

While many of the root meanings for the idea of a " general systems theory " might have been lost in the translation and many were led to believe that the systems theorists had articulated nothing but a pseudoscience, systems theory became a nomenclature that early investigators used to describe the interdependence of relationships in organization by defining a new way of thinking about science and scientific paradigms.

* the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment's ability to meet present and future needs.

" My program is unique in the military service in this respect: You know the expression ' from the womb to the tomb '; my organization is responsible for initiating the idea for a project ; for doing the research, and the development ; designing and building the equipment that goes into the ships ; for the operations of the ship ; for the selection of the officers and men who man the ship ; for their education and training.

Columbia's open classrooms, interfaith centers, and the then-novel idea of a health maintenance organization ( HMO ) with a group practice of medical doctors ( the Columbia Medical Plan ) sprung from these meetings.

However, they were convinced by a speech from Captain Jonathan Archer to give the idea of a united organization of worlds a chance.

PETA writes that it is an animal rights organization, and as such it rejects speciesism and the idea of animals as property, and opposes the use of animals in any form: as food, clothing, entertainment, or as research subjects.

Many of the networks recruited and controlled by the British and Americans were not perceived by the French as being especially interested in establishing a united or integrated Résistance operation, and the guerrilla groups controlled by the communists were only slightly more engaged by the idea of a Résistance " umbrella " organization.

" I will remember the summer of 1909 when Mr. William F. Milne, an intimate friend of our family went to visit his old home in Scotland and came back all enthused with the idea of the Boys Brigade, Sir Baden Powell's organization in Great Britain.

The Bonita Springs Concert Band was an out growth of a concerted effort by a group of interested persons who, in early 2007, began exploring the idea of forming a new musical organization to be located in the Bonita Springs area.

Shortly before activating its new Field Center in July 1960, NASA described the MSFC as the only self-contained organization in the nation that was capable of conducting the development of a space vehicle from the conception of the idea, through production of hardware, testing, and launching operations.