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idea and was
`` 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.

idea and gain
Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".
That is, by obvious dramatizing, the media reinforces the idea that all things are contrived for someone's gain which could be another definition of, at least, political conspiracies theories.
When a doctor tells Tako about a giant monster he discovered on the small Faro Island, Tako believes that it would be a brilliant idea to use the monster to gain publicity.
The idea of universal jurisdiction is fundamental to the operation of global organizations such as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ), which jointly assert the benefit of maintaining legal entities with jurisdiction over a wide range of matters of significance to states ( the ICJ should not be confused with the ICC and this version of " universal jurisdiction " is not the same as that enacted in the War Crimes Law ( Belgium ) which is an assertion of extraterritorial jurisdiction that will fail to gain implementation in any other state under the standard provisions of public policy ).
By using this method students gain the big idea they're taught and later are more willing to learn and keep the specifics of the concept or theory taught.
UCSD p-System began around 1974 as the idea of UCSD's Kenneth Bowles, who believed that the number of new computing platforms coming out at the time would make it difficult for new programming languages to gain acceptance.
It was hoped that by studying the wild boy, this idea would gain support.
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, who developed Reconstructionist Judaism and taught at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary of America, also rejected the idea of a personal God, Kaplan instead thought of God " as a force, like gravity, built into the very structure of the universe ," believing that " since the universe is constructed to enable us to gain personal happiness and communal solidarity when we act morally, it follows that there is a moral force in the universe ; this force is what the Constructionists mean by God ," although some Reconstructionists do believe in a personal God.
They did gain power in Western Scotland, originated new small kingdoms, and reinforced the idea of a common origin and that Scotland was somehow populated ( or re-populated ) by Gaelic Irish.
The idea that this implies is that the authors gain " immortality " through the survival of their works.
* State of Revolution ( 1977 )-An in-depth political depiction of the Russian Revolution of 1917, focusing on Vladimir Lenin as " a great man possessed by a terrible idea ", and the struggles of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin to gain power under him.
While the idea of American football as an origin for the phrase is possible, it is also absurd: to achieve a first down in football -- at least from a first-and-ten position -- one must gain the whole ten yards.
: As from life only, said he in one of his lectures, we can gain an idea of death, so from death only we gain an idea of life.
So at this level of sophistication, it is not difficult to gain acceptance of a more refined idea of causation.
He also worked on an idea that mass may exert a small shielding effect on gravitational waves, which did not gain much traction.
When the complex relationships between pathogenic microorganisms and their hosts were finally identified — refuting the idea of holistic organisms — Schwendener's hypothesis began to gain popularity.
In theory, the idea is to send all the weapons and money made from the stolen goods to Partisan guerrillas fighting in the woods, however, much to Blacky's dissatisfaction, many of the ' activists ' are using the rackets for personal gain.
Printed catalogs, sometimes called dictionary catalogs, began to be published in the early modern period and enabled scholars outside a library to gain an idea of its contents.
The idea persisted over the years and with time it gain complexity ending in the street party that has remained till these days.
His idea was to gain control of the area to take control of the West from the company's rivals, the Montreal-based North West Company.

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