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.

The idea was to optimize the system of national defense, to legalize one politics of sustainable defense and to integrate the three Forces, rationalizing their activities.

While he supported the idea of federal appropriations for science, he took exception to a federal bill that would have funded engineering research at land-grant colleges, and instead sought to raise a $ 1 million national research fund entirely from private sources.

It also rejected the idea that supranational organisations are on an equal level ( in terms of political influence ) to national governments.

In June 1990, Major suggested that the proposed Single European Currency should be a " hard ecu ", competing for use against existing national currencies ; this idea was not in the end adopted.

Conflict between white Moor, black Moor, and non-Moor ethnic groups, centering on language, land tenure, and other issues, continues to pose challenges to the idea of national unity.

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

Bynack ( 1984 ) examines Webster in relation to his commitment to the idea of a unified American national culture that would stave off the decline of republican virtues and solidarity.

In 1992, Rutgers professor Earl Maltz criticized the Supreme Court's decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey for endorsing the idea that if one side can take control of the Court on an issue of major national importance ( as in Roe v. Wade ), that side can protect its position from being reversed " by a kind of super-stare decisis.

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.

In the late 18th and early 19th century the idea of the existence of different national characters, or " Volksgeister ", of different ethnic groups was the moving force behind the German school of national romanticism and the beginning ideologies of ethnic nationalism.

During World War I, using Vladimir Lenin's idea that Czarism was taking a " Prussian path " to capitalism, the Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin identified a new stage in the development of capitalism, in which all sectors of national production and all important social institutions had become managed by the state ; he termed this new stage ' state capitalism.

He had no idea it would become a national standard for all televisions to contain.

According to one historian of the show, the idea of the format was to make the hosts the reporters, to always feature stories that were of national importance but focused upon individuals involved with, or in conflict with, those issues, and to limit the reports ' airtime to around thirteen minutes.

Its basic, and equally grandiose idea, was that, as the French Revolution of 1789 had enlarged the concept of individual liberty, another revolution would now be needed for national liberty ; and his vision went further because he hoped that in the no doubt distant future free nations might combine to form a loosely federal Europe with some kind of federal assembly to regulate their common interests.

In April 1927, José María Acha, a director at Arenas Club de Getxo, first proposed the idea of a national league in Spain.

The manifesto thus combined elements of contemporary democratic and progressive thought ( franchise reform, labour reform, limited nationalisation, taxes on wealth and war profits ) with corporatist emphasis on class collaboration ( the idea of social classes existing side by side and collaborating for the sake of national interests ; the opposite of the Marxist notion of class struggle ).

The idea for a form of national parks was first proposed in the United States in the 1860s, where National Parks were established to protect wilderness areas such as Yosemite.

) It was during this period that the idea of a truly national literature and culture developed, as a rejection of Bernard Bolzano's vision of a bi-lingual and bi-cultural Czech-German state.

After the rise of the PCI of Enrico Berlinguer at the 1976 general elections, when the Communists scored 34, 4 % of the votes, Moro conceived the idea of a " national solidarity " cabinet, whose parliamentary base should include the PCI as well.

When the Victorian state government ( controlled by the Australian Labor Party ) announced plans to end this grazing, the then federal government, controlled by a coalition of conservative parties who are the ALP's traditional opponents, floated the idea of using national cultural heritage powers ( on the basis of the cultural place given to the mountain cattleman, notably through The Man from Snowy River ) to override the state decision.

Its approval meant that the principle of secession was no longer in keeping with the idea of a national union.

up to the outbreak of the February revolution and for a time after Trotskyism did not mean the idea that it was impossible to build a socialist society within the national boundaries of Russia ( which " possibility " was never expressed by anybody up to 1924 and hardly came into anybody ’ s head ).

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

Rousseau anticipated the modern idea of the bourgeois nuclear family, with the mother at home taking responsibility for the household and for childcare and early education.

Jews may use the term omniscience, or preordination as a corollary of omniscience, but normally reject the idea of predestination as being incompatible with the free will and responsibility of moral agents, and it therefore has no place in their religion.

As the war neared its end, Marshall became the first vice president to conduct cabinet meetings ; Wilson left him with this responsibility while traveling in Europe to sign the Versailles treaty and to work on gathering support for his League of Nations idea.

Like other contemporary arrangements, the agreement stressed the responsibility of the adopted rather than adopter, focusing on the fact that, under the contract, the adoptive father was meant to be cared for in his old age ; an idea that is similar to the conceptions of adoption under Roman law.

While he had accepted responsibility " even for those crimes about which I did not know or about which I did not have the slightest idea " on the theory that he was the head of the " Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites ", he testified that the Bloc did not exist and its members had never met.

The community was said to be based on the idea of individual sovereignty and individual responsibility.

As Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, while a staunch opponent of partition, who had been elected to represent a Northern constituency in the First Dáil, did not pursue the idea of seats in the Dáil for Northern Ireland, on the grounds that this would amount to representation ' without taxation or responsibility ', although subsequent Taoisigh have appointed people from Northern Ireland to the Seanad.

: Concrete poetry begins by assuming a total responsibility before language: accepting the premise of the historical idiom as the indispensable nucleus of communication, it refuses to absorb words as mere indifferent vehicles, without life, without personality without history — taboo-tombs in which convention insists on burying the idea.

Henson noted that he wished to " make the idea of taking responsibility for one's life-which is one of the neat realizations a teenager experiences-a central thought of the film.

The Hippocratic Oath includes a requirement for doctors to avoid mentioning ills of patients to others, not only to protect them, but to protect their families-the same basic idea as modern consumer privacy law and regulation, which recognizes that innocent third parties can be harmed by the loss of control of sensitive information, and that therefore there is a responsibility beyond that to the ' customer ' or ' client '.

The second idea behind the Bretton Woods Conference was joint management of the Western political-economic order, meaning that the foremost industrial democratic nations must lower barriers to trade and the movement of capital, in addition to their responsibility to govern the system.

: Hahn believed that “ The Platonic view of education is that a nation must do all it can to make the individual citizen discover his own power and further more that the individual becomes a cripple in his or her point of view if he is not qualified by education to serve the community .” The idea of service at the school is thought to encourage students to gain a feeling of responsibility to aid other people and is implemented in creating an array of services that every student becomes apart of ( see below ).

This reinforced the idea that it was the Nixon Administration's responsibility to show sufficient evidence that the newspapers ’ actions would cause a “ grave and irreparable ” danger.

Sometimes the concept is referred to as the abuse excuse, in particular by the critics of the idea that guilty people may use past victimization to diminish the responsibility for their crimes.

Knox resigned his army commission in early 1784, " well satisfied to be excluded from any responsibility in arrangements which it is impossible to execute ", and Congress ' idea failed.

It borrowed the idea of Hermann Simon that it is necessary to look after the establishment and to look after each patient, while returning initiative and responsibility to them by developing situations in which they can work and express their creativity.

Her father's death and her sudden responsibility over her family caused her to abandon this idea.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is particularly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor, conferring upon it a special responsibility for other nations — to make them richer and happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image.

The idea was that the CIA ( and, later, other bodies ) could be given controversial instructions by powerful figures — up to and including the President himself — but that the existence and true source of those instructions could be denied if necessary ; if, for example, an operation went disastrously wrong and it was necessary for the administration to disclaim responsibility.

Having the responsibility of chairman of first the Office of Economic Opportunity then the Cost of Living Council imposed on him Donald Rumsfeld was initially unhappy with his position as chairman of the council and the council's " success " and for a while opposed the idea of the council.

At the same time, some development agencies are exploring opportunities for public-private partnerships and promoting the idea of Corporate social responsibility with the apparent aim of integrating international development with the process of economic globalization.

It is relatively difficult to start a housing co-op because if the idea is, for instance, to build a building or group of buildings to house the members, this usually takes a significant mortgage loan for which a financial institution will want assurances of responsibility.