The building was based on an idea by Frits Philips, who originally made a sketch of the building on a paper napkin.

The idea was to let independent operators use the same name, food, supplies, logo and even building design in exchange for a fee.

American authorities at one time entertained the idea of building a road from Kangerlussuaq to the second-largest airport, in Narsarsuaq, several hundred kilometres to the south.

The fundamental idea is that, once the expensive job of building the elevator is complete, an indefinite number of loads can be transported into orbit at minimal cost.

One theory deals with whether learning should take place as a building of concepts toward an overall idea, or the understanding of the overall idea with the details filled in later.

This idea requires the building of a molecular structure that will permit control and detection of nerve impulses by an external computer.

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

The construction of motorways began in the early 1990s with the idea building a world class road network and to reduce the load off the heavily used national highways throughout the country.

This notion was an underpinning for his concept of the spiral curriculum which posited the idea that a curriculum should revisit basic ideas, building on them until the student had grasped the full formal concept.

A related idea is to obtain economies of scale from building simple, massive, multi-stage rockets using cheap, off-the-shelf parts.

Further work led to the idea of building a smaller " wet workshop " based on the S-IVB, launched as the second stage of a Saturn IB.

Consideration was also given to building atop railroad tracks on the West Side of Manhattan ( an idea revived in 1998 ) and to Long Island City, in Queens.

" 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.

Arising from the dominant discourse of the Jewish suffering during the years of Nazi domination, and building on the divergence of differential victimhoods brought to light by studies of the Roma and the mentally ill, who suffered massively under the eugenics programs of the Third Reich, the idea of a “ Gay Holocaust ” was first explored in the early 1970s.

So, he toyed with the idea of building his own festival hall ( the Festspielhaus ) in Bayreuth.

The idea of building a fixed link between Sakhalin and the Russian mainland was first mooted in the 1930s.

And I think it ’ s not a good idea to go into business with somebody whose strategies would put you out of business, rather than building the business .< ref >"

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus came up with the idea of building a great wooden horse ( the horse being the emblem of Troy ), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city as a trophy.

I just don't like the idea of that, but maybe that's wishy-washy of me, because I don't want those buildings standing if they hurt anyone ... Why would you preserve building just so someone can make a profit by continuing to hurt and kill individuals who feel every bit as much as we do?

A group of investors, led by Al Bruner and Peter Hill, founded Global Communications Ltd. with the idea of building a cross-Canada, all-UHF network.

Some building owners have taken to combating this unpleasantness by painting murals of gods on their walls, with the idea that gutkha chewers would not spit on a god.

He remembers Bill's talent and pitches the idea of having a man climb the " 12-story Bolton building ", which De Vore's occupies.

Once an idea has been reduced to tangible form, for example by securing it in a fixed medium ( such as a drawing, sheet music, photograph, a videotape, or a computer file ), the copyright holder is entitled to enforce his or her exclusive rights.

In as much as patients can throw themselves into the nervous sleep, and manifest all the usual phenomena of Mesmerism, through their own unaided efforts, as I have so repeatedly proved by causing them to maintain a steady fixed gaze at any point, concentrating their whole mental energies on the idea of the object looked at ; or that the same may arise by the patient looking at the point of his own finger, or as the Magi of Persia and Yogi of India have practised for the last 2, 400 years, for religious purposes, throwing themselves into their ecstatic trances by each maintaining a steady fixed gaze at the tip of his own nose ; it is obvious that there is no need for an exoteric influence to produce the phenomena of Mesmerism.

He noted its fading luminosity, speculated about its origin, and used the lack of observed parallax to argue that it was in the sphere of fixed stars, further undermining the doctrine of the immutability of the heavens ( the idea accepted since Aristotle that the celestial spheres were perfect and unchanging ).

The crucial idea is that myth is not simply a collection of stories permanently fixed to a particular time and place in history, but an ongoing social practice within every society.

The game of Oh Hell explores the idea of taking an exact number of tricks specified by a bid before the hand, and differs from other trick-taking games in that players play a fixed number of hands.

The causal theory of names combines the referential view with the idea that the name's referent is fixed by a baptismal act, whereupon the name becomes a rigid designator of the referent.

The idea was simply to attach infinities to corrections of mass and charge that were actually fixed to a finite value by experiments.

Bearden wanted to show how nothing is fixed, and represented this idea throughout the image: not only is the subject being baptized about to have water poured from the top, but the subject is also about to be submerged in water.

In Britain, geologists adapted this idea into " diluvial theory " which proposed repeated worldwide annihilation and creation of new fixed species adapted to a changed environment, initially identifying the most recent catastrophe as the biblical flood.

Biological determinism, sometimes called Genetic determinism, is the idea that each of our behaviors, beliefs, and desires are fixed by our genetic nature.

In the case of Chinese, the vast majority of characters are a fixed combination of a radical that indicates its semantic category, plus a phonetic to give an idea of the pronunciation.

The idea is that while there are composite probable primes to base a for any fixed a, we may hope there exists some fixed P < 1 such that for any given composite n, if we choose a randomly the probability that n is pseudoprime to base a is at most P. If we repeat this test k times, choosing a new a each time, the probability of n being pseudoprime to all the as tested is hence at most P < sup > k </ sup >, and as this decreases exponentially, only moderate k is required to make this probability negligibly small ( compared to, for example, the probability of computer hardware error ).

French doctrines mainly relies in opposition to German Geopolitik and rejects the idea of a fixed geography, hence French geography is focused on the evolution of polymorphic territories being the result of mankind actions.

In two works of this period, Pierre Bayle ( 1838 ) and Philosophie und Christentum ( 1839 ), which deal largely with theology, he held that he had proven " that Christianity has in fact long vanished not only from the reason but from the life of mankind, that it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

At the most general level, economists may define wealth as " anything of value " which captures both the subjective nature of the idea and the idea that it is not a fixed or static concept.

Sprengtporten was haunted by the fixed idea that the " jeunesse dorée " of the court was in league with his old enemies to traduce and supplant him, and not all the forbearance of the king could open his eyes.

Other research was based on more conventional lasers or masers and developed to include the idea of a satellite with a fixed laser and a deployable mirror for targeting.

In his dissertations, which were published in French in 1928, he demonstrated that the Homeric style is characterized by the extensive use of fixed expressions, or ' formulas ', adapted for expressing a given idea under the same metrical conditions.

His idea was that if F is the Frobenius automorphism over the finite field, then the number of points of the variety X over the field of order q < sup > m </ sup > is the number of fixed points of F < sup > m </ sup > ( acting on all points of the variety X defined over the algebraic closure ).