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`` 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 anticipated
Rousseau anticipated the modern idea of the bourgeois nuclear family, with the mother at home taking responsibility for the household and for childcare and early education.
Game Informer editor Dan Ryckert jokingly described Waluigi as Nintendo's " best and most beloved " character and that such a game has become a hotly anticipated idea.
Ben suggests that maybe the anticipated move to California is not such a good idea.
That he anticipated in any manner the inductive reasoning of the true scientific method cannot be contended ; his botanical studies did not lead him, like his contemporary Konrad von Gesner, to any idea of a natural system of classification, and he rejected with the utmost arrogance and violence of language the discoveries of Copernicus.
Some of the ideas of the Associationist School anticipated behaviorist psychology, especially the idea of conditioning.
A metanarrative refers in critical theory, and particularly in postmodernism, to a supposedly comprehensive explanation-a narrative about narratives-of historical meaning, experience or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of an ( as yet unrealised ) master idea.
", Hinton suggested that points moving around in three dimensions might be imagined as successive cross-sections of a static four-dimensional arrangement of lines passing through a three-dimensional plane, an idea that anticipated the notion of world lines, and of time as a fourth dimension ( although Hinton did not propose this explicitly, and the article was mainly concerned with the possibility of a fourth spatial dimension ), in Einstein's theory of relativity.
This idea arose when the early use of incentive wages did not have the anticipated effect on labor productivity because purchasing power had not improved.
In fact, most of them were anticipated in the original edition ," a statement far from any relation to the reality that in 1983 the standard model was nearly universally accepted in the physics community, and the bootstrap theory was a dead idea ...
This came as a blow to Darwin's anticipated timescale, though the idea of an ancient Earth was generally accepted without much controversy.
As Matthew anticipated Darwin and Wallace, so William Charles Wells anticipated Matthew, but he died so soon after publication that he never developed the idea.
As he described, " one day in a frolicsome mood, we broached the idea of a little periodical merely for our own amusement, and that of the town, for neither of us anticipated any further circulation.
The idea was to some extent anticipated in an 1865 article by Francis Galton, published in Macmillan's Magazine, which set out a weak version of the concept.
This was precisely what the Commission wanted to avoid, so they dismissed the idea, saying that Zionists anticipated " a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants to Palestine ".
He anticipated the idea of a continental divide as he was the first to mention a large mountain range to the west ( presumably the Rocky Mountains ) that blocks the westward passage and serves as a continental divide.
" In putting Horus to death while Prince Frederick still lived, Prus anticipated events, but he erred only in details, not in the essence of the matter, which was meant to document the idea that ' human hopes are vain before the order of the world.
While the idea behind AZX was ahead of its time in the 1990s and anticipated the more successful electronic communication networks such as Archipelago, it had to close down in October 2001, due to lack of volume.
* Spire Edge Tower – ( Gurgaon, Haryana, India ), under construction with anticipated completion 2012, a signature tower that espouses the idea of a vertical green ecoinfeastructure, and rated LEED Platinum.
Fedorov discussed supremacy of mind, “ giving, developing organs for itself ” and anticipated V. Vernadsky ’ s idea of autotrophic man.
Michell ’ s idea for calculating the number of such " invisible " stars anticipated 20th century astronomers ' work: he suggested that since a certain proportion of double-star systems might be expected to contain at least one " dark " star, we could search for and catalogue as many double-star systems as possible, and identify cases where only a single circling star was visible.
The severe slump in 928 sales made executives re-think the viability of the idea, and low overall profits during the 1989 to 1991 model years meant the model would be far more risky for the company to build than had been anticipated during development.
The Hindu revivalism movements that emerged in British India from the later 19th century developed an idea of a " Vedic science " found in the corpus of Brahmanas, Sutras and Shastras of Indian antiquity that supposedly anticipated certain results of modern science.
Cornwallis anticipated Lafayette's idea, and laid an elaborate trap.

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