The story idea came from smuggling in the 18th century Romney Marsh, where brandy and tobacco were brought in at night by boat from France to avoid high tax.

Charles Gutzlaff, a Prussian missionary, to interpret for their ship captains during coastal smuggling of opium, using the idea that the reverend would best gather more converts during these smuggling operations.

The smuggling contact is horrified by Mal's supposed idea of " lying low ," but Mal soon develops a plan around this considerable distraction.

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.

The President had measurable support to run for a full term and he was amenable to the idea.

Plato spoke about the " knowledge of knowledge " ( Greek νόησις νοήσεως-nóesis noéseos ) and Aristotle explains the idea in full length:

The idea of a group velocity distinct from a wave's phase velocity was first proposed by W. R. Hamilton in 1839, and the first full treatment was by Rayleigh in his " Theory of Sound " in 1877.

The history of the devil and the idea of evil: from the earliest times to the present day ( 1899 ) full text

The idea that this was a pit full of sand is wrong.

This idea proved influential, serving as an alternative to a full Dyson Sphere that required fewer assumptions ( such as artificial gravity ) and allowed a day / night cycle to be introduced ( through the use of a smaller ring of " shadow squares ", rotating between the ring and its sun ).

Therefore, the first three give an idea of the seasons whereas the last two give an idea of the position among the constellations of the full moon.

Freud's description of subjective states, involving an unconscious mind full of primal impulses, and counterbalancing self-imposed restrictions, was combined by Carl Jung ( 1875 – 1961 ) with the idea of the collective unconscious, with which the conscious mind fought or embraced.

Basically his idea was to add electrons to inflate the spherical Fermi-balloon inside the series of Brillouin-boxes and determine when a certain box would be full.

It is generally accepted that single weapons system types are much less effective without the support of the full combined arms team ; the pre-World War II notion of " tank fleets " has proven to be as unsound as the World War I idea of unsupported infantry attacks.

His influence ranges from similarities in idea to full literal translations woven into plays.

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.

But only after a state had actually been formed on the basis of the theory of representation did the full significance of this idea become clear.

As they developed their philosophy, they believed that Surrealism would advocate the idea that ordinary and depictive expressions are vital and important, but that the sense of their arrangement must be open to the full range of imagination according to the Hegelian Dialectic.

After the fall of France in 1940, Hollywood drove fashion in the United States almost entirely, with the exception of a few trends coming from war torn London in 1944 and 1945, as America's own rationing hit full force, and the idea of function seemed to overtake fashion, if only for a few short months until the end of the war.

Although the Soviet design did not lead to full thermonuclear detonation, it embodied Ginzburg's crucial idea of November 1948, which is to use lithium deuteride as a fusion fuel.

In March 1990 some 18 % of Russian speakers supported the idea of a fully independent Estonia, up from 7 % the previous autumn, and by early 1990 only a small minority of ethnic Estonians were opposed to full independence.

The term reproducible research was first proposed by Jon Claerbout at Stanford University and refers to the idea that the ultimate product of research is the paper along with the full computational environment used to produce the results in the paper such as the code, data, etc.

Davis reported that Cooney and Morrisett decided that if they did not procure full funding from the beginning, they would drop the idea of producing the show.

The rabbis taught a " quite literally ... down-to-earth " view of the eternalness of God: That " God is eternal but it is not given to man to explore the full meaning of this idea ," and so " one cannot, therefore, expect to find in the rabbinic literature anything like a detailed examination of what is meant by divine eternity.

Paul Martin-former finance minister and past Prime Minister of Canada-once held that full employment could be achieved, yet let go of this idea after gaining power.

) It is based on the idea that history is what you can remember and is full of examples of half-remembered facts.

Chivalry underwent a revival and elaboration of chivalric ceremonial and rules of etiquette in the fourteenth century that was examined by Johan Huizinga, in The Waning of the Middle Ages ( 1919, 1924 ), in which he dedicates a full chapter to " The idea of chivalry ".

These operations are compounding ( or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn ); transposing ( or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur ); augmenting ( as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented ); and diminishing ( as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished ).

The first Congolese university graduate was only in 1956, and virtually no one in the new nation had any idea of how to manage a country of such size.

Throughout the 1980s and ' 90s, Young promised fans a follow-up to the original Decade collection, provisionally titled Decade II ; eventually, this idea was scrapped in favor of a much more comprehensive anthology to be titled Archives, spanning his entire career and ranging in size from a box set to an entire series of audio and / or video releases.

The stronger term " congruent " refers to the idea that an entire figure is the same size and shape as another figure.

Though the idea that brain size is unrelated to race and intelligence was popularized in the 1980s, studies continue to show significant correlations.

This idea was proposed as early as 1803, by Jefferson, but was not used in actual treaties until 1817, when the Cherokee agreed to cede two large tracts of land in the east for one of equal size in present-day Arkansas.

Turner and colleagues interpreted the presence of feathers on Velociraptor as evidence against the idea that the larger, flightless maniraptorans lost their feathers secondarily due to larger body size.

It is useful because it gives us an idea of the melodic qualities of the tuning, and because if R is a rational number N / D, so is ( 3R + 1 )/( 5R + 2 ) or ( 3N + D )/( 5N + 2D ), which is the size of fifth in terms of logarithms base 2, and which immediately tells us what division of the octave we will have.

The surroundings of the Manneken Pis, giving an idea of its size.

Jervis had no idea of the size of the fleet he was up against.

For such a reduced alphabet, the full 12-bit codes yielded poor compression unless the image was large, so the idea of a variable-width code was introduced: codes typically start one bit wider than the symbols being encoded, and as each code size is used up, the code width increases by 1 bit, up to some prescribed maximum ( typically 12 bits ).

Don Rosa has said that Scrooge had earned all the money in his bin by himself, but not only does the bin's size possibly contradict this idea, in Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, he said that Scrooge was traveling around the world, starting businesses and having the money sent home.

Nimoy hit upon the idea of humpback whales after talking with a friend — their song added mystery to the story, and their size added logistical challenges the heroes would have to overcome.

When the building was designed in the previous century, no one had any idea about how such a dome was to be built, given that it was to be even larger than the Pantheon's dome in Rome and that no dome of that size had been built since antiquity.

The movement quickly shrunk in size to a much smaller core of activists, and the FWG idea all but disappeared from wide public discourse.

A meteorologist drew for him a rough outline of the Gulf of Mexico on a sheet of plastic, and held that over the black and white radar display of Carla: File: Hurricane carla radar. jpg to give Rather's audience an idea of the Carla's size, and the position of the hurricane's eye.

The success of this concept — and its value to the Matchbox brand — was huge, leading to a rapid expansion of the idea, both in the numbers of models used ( and the introduction of models offering good " advertising space ", such as the # 38 Ford Model A Van, into the series ), and, again, in the size of the models ( Yesteryears, and also often Super Kings as well ).

The idea of Salam is normally different from the other either in its quality or in its size or weight and their exact specification is not generally possible.

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The idea will represent only the geometrical or mechanical properties of bodies ( size, shape, motion ), while the sensation will consist in colour or some other sensible quality.

After flirting ( in 1973 ) with the idea that slightly deleterious mutations may be common, Tomoko Ohta, a student of Kimura, made an important generalisation of the neutral theory by including the concept of " near-neutrality ", that is, genes that are affected mostly by drift or mostly by selection depending on the effective size of a breeding population.

The Chief Justice attacked the Law School's asserted goal of reaching a " critical mass " of minority students, finding the absolute number African-American, Hispanic, and Native American students varied markedly, which is inconsistent with idea of a critical mass, in that one would think the same size critical mass would be needed for all minority groups.

Additionally, the thicknesses of Citipati and Deinonychus eggshells are almost identical, and since shell thickness correlates with egg volume, this further supports the idea that the eggs of these two animals were about the same size.

This most widespread use of the term is based on the idea that it is only possible to observe part of the universe at one particular time, so it is difficult to make statistical statements about cosmology on the scale of the entire universe, as the number of observations ( sample size ) must be too small.