There was some initial resistance to the idea out of fear that basic arithmetic skills would suffer.

His initial idea was to use punch-cards to control a machine that could calculate and print logarithmic tables with huge precision ( a special purpose machine ).

* 1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion ( he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made ).

* March 8 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion ( he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery ).

The initial design parameters included a larger external fuel tank, which would have been carried to orbit, where it could be used as a section of a space station, but this idea was killed due to budgetary and political considerations.

Telephony's initial idea returns to POTS, ( an acronym for " plain old telephone service ") technically called the PSTN ( public-switched telephone network ).

Zipes writes that " the Grimms were unable to devote all their energies to their research and did not have a clear idea about the significance of collecting folk tales in this initial phase.

Dawkins proposes the idea of the " replicator ," the initial molecule which first managed to reproduce itself and thus gained an advantage over other molecules within the primordial soup.

In the process of developing an invention, the initial idea may change.

Inspiration can start the process, but no matter how complete the initial idea, inventions typically have to be developed.

The idea of using an initial property is to set up the problem in terms of some auxiliary category E, and then identify that what we want is to find an initial object of E. This has an advantage that the optimization — the sense that we are finding the most efficient solution — means something rigorous and is recognisable, rather like the attainment of a supremum.

The initial idea was thought of in 1901, and the school opened in 1907.

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.

Trotskyism meant the idea that the Russian proletariat might win the power in advance of the Western proletariat, and that in that case it could not confine itself within the limits of a democratic dictatorship but would be compelled to undertake the initial socialist measures.

It is widely conjectured that there is no computationally inexpensive method to solve chess even in the very weak sense of determining with certainty the value of the initial position, and hence the idea of solving chess in the stronger sense of obtaining a practically usable description of a strategy for perfect play for either side seems unrealistic today.

Also, the idea of Scrappy actually may not have been all that new to the series, as he "... bore a resemblance to Spears ’ and Ruby ’ s initial idea for a feisty little dog ", which was one of the early ideas for the Scooby Doo character himself along with the " big cowardly dog " ultimately chosen.

Lucas's initial idea for Indiana's sidekick was a virginal young princess, but Huyck, Katz and Spielberg disliked the idea.

Maggin used the idea, which became his initial foray into the Superman comic book, and it was published in Superman # 247 ( Jan. 1972 ).

* The plot idea of astronauts thinking they had crashed on an unknown planet, only to discover that in fact they had been on Earth all along, would be adapted by Rod Serling in his work on the initial screenplay of Planet of The Apes.

Seeing the success of this, Hinckley came up with the idea of putting in a rail line that would pass through Darby and continue all the way to the semi-rural city of Chester in what became known as the Darby Improvement Hinckley's plans met with initial resistance from farmers, and at the end of the first year, he had managed to buy only one farm.

In later interviews, Lennon expressed disappointment with the Beatles ' arrangement of the recording, complaining that inadequate time was taken to fully develop his initial idea for the song.

Because of its wealth of experience, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation could help with the initial studies needed.

Its initial expenses will be paid from appropriations currently available for our foreign aid program.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

It is interesting to note that the present level of military electronics procurement is greater than the industry's total sales to all markets in 1950-1953, which were good years for our industry with television enjoying its initial period of rapid consumer acceptance.

While there are many different possibilities for the timing of casework intervention, the experiments recently reported from a variety of traditional settings all point up the importance of an immediate response to the client's initial need for help.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

The initial setting of the availability table indicated that the index word or electronic switch was not available for assignment.

Radiation, therefore, is at an initial cost disadvantage even though only 1 to 10 per cent as much radiation energy as heat energy is required for radiopasteurization or radiosterilization.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Publicity accounted for 1.1 per cent of the initial contacts with new members.

He asked for another 10 million dollar `` initial '' appropriation for `` stimulatory grants '' to states to improve nursing homes.

Premier Khrushchev wrecked the conference at its initial session with a bitter denunciation of the U. S. for the U-2 incident.

Devanagari is typically an abugida augmented with dedicated letters for initial vowels, though some traditions use अ as a zero consonant as the graphic base for such vowels.

Johnston's initial call upon the governors for more men did not result in many immediate recruits but Johnston had another, even bigger, problem since his force was seriously short of arms and ammunition even for the troops he had.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.

Most players bid low amounts between one and ten points in an initial bid in order to feel out the competition and to save points for other uses.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

Despite his initial reluctance, Johnson agreed to run for re-election for governor in 1855, and became the nominee at the party convention.

Orton offered the play to Codron in October 1964 and it underwent sweeping rewrites before it was judged fit for the West End ( for example, the character of " Inspector Truscott " had a mere eight lines in the initial first act.

In the initial 1963 Pink Panther film, Fantômas was transformed into Sir Charles Lytton ( the Phantom ), and Inspector Juve became Inspector Clouseau.

Adams was the voice of the title character in Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales ( 1963 – 1966 ), but he was more famous as the voice of Inspector Gadget in the initial run of that television series ( 1983 – 1986 ) and the Christmas special, as well as in later reprises ; he even voiced himself in animated form for a guest shot in an episode of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, " The Exterminator ," which first aired on CBS October 6, 1973.

The initial stimulus to form the Gould League was a letter from Jessie McMichael to John Albert Leach, supervisor of nature study in Victorian state schools and later Assistant Chief Inspector of Schools in Victoria.

Its initial personnel consisted of 80 Constables, 4 Native Head Constables, 4 Sergeants, a Bugler and a European Inspector, who were temporarily drafted into a special force to deal with periodical outbreaks for freedom by native Muslims Moplahs.

The celebrated detective accepts the challenge, then instructs Colin to talk with the neighbors beyond the initial interviews with Inspector Hardcastle.