`` 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 project was started by Alex Jarrett in February 1996 because he " liked the idea of visiting a location represented by a round number such as 43 ° 00 ' 00 " N 72 ° 00 ' 00 " W. What would be there?

The idea developed slowly through the war years, until in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms ( 1918 ) all the Close Ups of Lillian Gish are heavily diffused by the use of layers of fine black cotton mesh placed in front of the lens.

This method ( and the general idea of an FFT ) was popularized by a publication of J. W. Cooley and J. W. Tukey in 1965, but it was later discovered ( Heideman & Burrus, 1984 ) that those two authors had independently re-invented an algorithm known to Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1805 ( and subsequently rediscovered several times in limited forms ).

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.

Finally in the west the idea of " art for art's sake " began to find expression in the work of the Romantic painters like Francisco de Goya, John Constable, and J. M. W.

The idea of the integrated circuit was conceived by a radar scientist working for the Royal Radar Establishment of the British Ministry of Defence, Geoffrey W. A.

Bret W. Davis writes, for example, " The first philosophical development of the idea of nihilism is generally ascribed to Friedrich Jacobi, who in a famous letter criticized Fichte's idealism as falling into nihilism.

The seminal paper first expounding the idea was published by C. H. Bennett, G. Brassard, C. Crépeau, R. Jozsa, A. Peres and W. K. Wootters in 1993.

The idea for the story was pushed on Heinlein by editor John W. Campbell, and Heinlein wrote later that he had " had to re-slant it to remove racist aspects of the original story line " and that he did not " consider it to be an artistic success.

The idea of inclusive fitness was used to interpret observations on behaviour and life-history and birds were widely used models for testing hypotheses based on theories postulated by W. D. Hamilton and others.

The original idea for the story of Sixth Column was proposed by John W. Campbell ( who had written a similar unpublishable story called All ), and Heinlein later wrote that he had " had to reslant it to remove racist aspects of the original story line " and that he did not " consider it to be an artistic success.

A. W. Lewis is said to have begun the field of Economic Development and consequently the idea of human capital when he wrote in 1954 the " Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour.

Nobel laureate P. W. Anderson used this idea in his 1972 paper Science, ' More is different ' to expose some of the limitations of reductionism.

The " PCM tube " apparatus that Gray patented was made by Raymond W. Sears of Bell Labs, working with Gray and William M. Goodall, who credited Gray for the idea of the reflected binary code.

The idea was suggested to Hicks by W. S. Gilbert.

Throughout the 1980s, the abolition of the Department of Education was a part of the Republican Party platform, but the administration of President George H. W. Bush declined to implement this idea, as he was in favor of the Department's existence, but rather reformed its activities.

He approached John E. Drewry of the University of Georgia ’ s Henry W. Grady School of Journalism, who enthusiastically endorsed the idea.

Stone's colleagues Bryant Tuckerman, Richard P. Feynman and John W. Tukey became interested in the idea and formed the Princeton Flexagon Committee.

In Judge John W. Sause, Jr .’ s essay, “ Why the Eagle ”, he connects the idea of freedom and the importance of the United States ’ seal to the courthouse ’ s eagle.

In order to attract larger crowds to Midway, the idea of a Swiss theme was created by Orma W. Wallengren ( Claire Peterson ) whose family owned and operated the Homestead, replacing the name and theme of Harvest Days with Swiss Days.

In Mexico, topographical officer George W. Hughes reported to Secretary of State John M. Clayton that a railroad across the isthmus was a “ feasible and practical ” idea.

For their part, only a minority of Republican congressmen supported President George W. Bush's 2005 proposal to partially privatize Social Security, an idea strongly backed by the Institute.

The town is featured in Crime Is My Business by W. Howard Baker ( Sexton Blake Library No 408, Amalgamated Press, 1958 ) and possibly based on an idea or material by Jack Trevor Story.

The New Critics also rejected the idea that the work of a critic or analyst is to determine what author's intended meaning ( a view formalized by W. K.