`` 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.

There were also plans for Henry Norris to build a larger stadium on the other side of Stevenage Road but there was little need after the merger idea failed.

Brabham records that he was not taken with the idea of driving, being convinced that the drivers " were all lunatics " but he agreed to build a car with Schonberg.

Von Koenigsegg got the idea to build his own car after watching the Norwegian stop-motion animated movie Pinchcliffe Grand Prix in his youth.

Udet sought to build dive-bombing into the Junkers Ju 88 and conveyed the same idea, initiated specifically by the OKL, for the Heinkel He 177.

# I have an idea of something I want to build, construct, or make existent

Ricardo, in Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, more rigorously laid down the idea of the assumptions that were used to build his ideas of supply and demand.

Throughout the 1850s, Judah was known as " Crazy Judah " for his idea to build a railroad through and over the wall of mountains known as the Sierra Nevada, a project which many people at the time considered impossible.

Lebesgue's idea was to first build the integral for what he called simple functions, measurable functions that take only finitely many values.

Other established American grocery chains in the 1930s, such as Kroger and Safeway at first resisted Cullen's idea, but eventually were forced to build their own supermarkets as the economy sank into the Great Depression, while consumers were becoming price-sensitive at a level never experienced before.

The massive structure of information available in a wiki, or an open source software project such as the FreeBSD kernel could be compared to a termite nest ; one initial user leaves a seed of an idea ( a mudball ) which attracts other users who then build upon and modify this initial concept, eventually constructing an elaborate structure of connected thoughts.

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 ).

The idea of building a fixed link across the strait between Labrador and Newfoundland, known as the Newfoundland-Labrador fixed link, has been raised numerous times in recent decades following an unsuccessful attempt to build a tunnel carrying electrical wires in the mid-1970s.

He personally supervised the repairs to the Fort and had the idea to build underground tunnels under the Fort so that even during a siege they could still move in and out of the Fort.

To be able to reach the ceiling, Michelangelo needed a support ; the first idea was by Julius ' favoured architect Donato Bramante, who wanted to build for him a scaffold to be suspended in the air with ropes.

Ward was very keen on the idea of ‘ build it yourself ’ having said in response to the proposition of removing all planning laws, ‘ I don't believe in just letting it rip, the rich get away with murder when that happens.

In an attempt to build a larger market for the oranges, the Romoland Fruit Co. began in 1936 to market its blood oranges as " citrus tomatoes " on the idea that the word " blood " discouraged buyers.

In 1960 it was decided to drop the school consolidation idea and build a new school.

" His idea was to build up a town that should exclusively be the home of Infidels ... a town that should have neither God, Hell, Church, nor Saloon.

Hay would later build on this idea, in combination with a Stalinist definition of nationalist identity, to argue that homosexuals constituted a " cultural minority ".

Created and edited by its members, it initiated the idea of the Personal Computer, and helped its members build the original kit computers, like the Altair.

The idea was to build an external box that would be used with the existing console to turn it into a " real " computer, a system known as the ZGRASS-100.

The first known idea to build a canal between the River Mersey and the River Trent was put forward in 1755, though no action was taken at that time.

Although he isn't a member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame ( unlike his uncle Basilio, who is ), in 1990, Ed Brophy and some Canastota businessmen came up with the idea to build the hall of fame in Canastota, to honor Canastota's two native world champions: Basilio and Backus.

The idea behind this is to increase education among Americans, build businesses and profit, and support state-of-the-art technology for state officials.