`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

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.

Despite the clarity of his presentation, his idea was not of Einsteinian calibre.

To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.

He had no idea where he was.

He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.

Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.

And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.

That, incidentally, might give you some idea of what Felix was like.

Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.

This was senseless -- he had no idea what to look for.

`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.

The idea of a stored-program computer was already present in the design of J. Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly's ENIAC, but was initially omitted so that it could be finished sooner.

According to activist writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM, the film's chief marketer, capitalized on the idea.

Enzo Ferrari wasn't initially interested in the idea of producing road cars when he formed Scuderia Ferrari ( literally " Ferrari Stable ", and usually used to mean " Team Ferrari ", it is correctly pronounced ) in 1928 as a sponsor for amateur drivers headquartered in Modena.

It was initially assumed the Mendelian inheritance only accounted for large ( qualitative ) differences, such as those seen by Mendel in his pea plants — and the idea of additive effect of ( quantitative ) genes was not realised until R. A. Fisher's ( 1918 ) paper, " The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance " Mendel's overall contribution gave scientists a useful overview that traits were inheritable.

An idea is initially created with the following components:

Richard Dawkins initially defined meme as a noun that " conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation ".

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

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.

This idea was initially disputed by another Swiss scientist, Louis Agassiz, but when he undertook to disprove it, he ended up affirming his colleague's hypothesis.

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 writers combined the two ideas ; they initially set the film during the European Renaissance, but changed the time period the Borg corrupted to the mid-21st century after fearing the Renaissance idea would be too kitschy.

As he was then thirty-four and Laura was now only eighteen, her father was initially opposed to the idea.

Although initially beginning with the idea that Soviet capitalism differed little from western capitalism, they later began to argue that the bureaucracy held its property in common, much like the Catholic Church's.

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.

Cunningham's idea was to make WikiWikiWeb's pages quickly editable by its users, so he initially thought about calling it " QuickWeb ", but later changed his mind and dubbed it " WikiWikiWeb ".

Lang and Kornfeld noticed the ad, and the four men got together originally to discuss a retreat-like recording studio in Woodstock, but the idea evolved into an outdoor music and arts festival, although even that was initially envisioned on a smaller scale, perhaps featuring some of the big name artists who lived in the Woodstock area ( such as Bob Dylan and The Band ).

The sculpture was initially slightly different in design and intended to be part of a fountain set in the city center, but the people of Vimmerby vehemently opposed the idea.

Director Scorsese initially struggled selling his idea of realizing the film until DiCaprio became interested in playing protagonist Amsterdam Vallon, a young leader of the Irish faction, and thus, Miramax Films got involved with financing the project.

Restrained by loyalty to Padovani, both Copeland and Sting initially resisted the idea, and the Police began performing as a four-piece version in July 1977.

She initially rejects the idea of marriage and romance, feeling that it would break up her family and separate her from the sisters she adores.

The idea of the stored-program computer with combined memory for program and data was conceived during the development of ENIAC, but it was not initially implemented in ENIAC because World War II priorities required the machine to be completed quickly, and ENIAC's 20 storage locations would be too small to hold data and programs.

" Although Lucasfilm initially resisted the idea of Luke marrying Mara, they eventually acquiesced.

Although the characters who were present at the epic battle at the dawn of time ( Crisis on Infinite Earths # 10, " Death at the Dawn of Time ") — Psycho-Pirate, Lady Quark, Harbinger, and Pariah — were initially treated as exceptions, this idea did not stick.

Pollack initially resisted the idea, but Hoffman eventually convinced him to take the role.