`` 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.

His technique relies heavily on the satirical poem with a joke in the last line, thus drawing him closer to the modern idea of epigram as a genre.

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.

The construction of motorways began in the early 1990s with the idea building a world class road network and to reduce the load off the heavily used national highways throughout the country.

A good trade study document is heavy on research, expresses its idea clearly ( without relying heavily on obtuse jargon to dazzle the reader ), and most importantly is impartial.

Traditionally, the academic program at the Air Force Academy ( as with military academies in general ) has focused heavily on science and engineering, with the idea that many graduates would be expected to manage complex air, space and information technology systems.

The idea caused a mass conflict as it would disturb the natural shape of the city of Vandalia and it would heavily disturb the shape of National Road, or Rt.

The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the " big stick ", or the military, ties in heavily with the idea of Realpolitik, which implies an amoral pursuit of political power that resembles Machiavellian ideals.

These instructions and supplementary instructions to ships ' captains, which attempted to balance an adherence to standing orders with the need to exploit emerging opportunities in a battle, proved heavily influential over the next hundred years and shaped the idea that an aggressive fighting spirit should be at the core of British naval doctrine.

* Germany, already heavily involved in the internal Ottoman politics, officially opposed a war against the Empire, but in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was playing with the idea to replace the Balkan positions of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders, an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.

The idea is that banks and other financial institutions should not need keep in reserve the same amount of capital to protect the institution against ( for example ) a run on the bank, if the financial institution is heavily invested in highly liquid and very " safe " securities ( such as U. S. government bonds or short-term commercial paper from very stable companies ).

Taine seems to have drawn heavily on the philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder's ideas of volk ( people ) and nation in his own concept of race ; the Spanish writer Emilia Pardo Bazán has suggested that a crucial predecessor to Taine's idea was the work of Germaine de Staël on the relationship between art and society.

During this time she began to reflect heavily on her ancestry, and for a time became obsessed with the idea of reclaiming her father's Canadian lands in Herring Cove, an enclave of Nova Scotia.

* The 1999 movie The Matrix heavily incorporates the idea of self-fulfilling prophecies.

While Nicklaus officially turned professional in late 1961, he debated heavily the idea of remaining an amateur in order to further emulate his idol, Bobby Jones.

In retrospect, the Central Asian Muslim informants ' idea of the Ming China being a heavily Christian country may be explained by numerous similarities between Christian and Buddhist ecclesiastical rituals-from having sumptuous statuary and ecclesiastical robes to Gregorian chant-which would make the two religions appear externally similar to a Muslim merchant.

The BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who has often been heavily influenced by the various Quatermass serials, and despite Kneale's dislike of it (" It sounded a terrible idea and I still think it was ," he commented in 1986 ) and his refusal to write for it, unofficial references to Quatermass have appeared in the programme and its spinoffs.

It was C. S. Navy Secretary Stephen Mallorys idea to raise the partially burned Merrimack and heavily armor the ships newly rebuilt upper works with thick oak planking and two courses of heavy iron plate, turning it into a new kind of warship: an all-steam powered " iron clad ".

Bellisario heavily reworked the idea, and the final result was Airwolf.

Academic Ben Singer has contested the idea that these " serial-queen melodramas " were male fantasies and has observed that they were marketed heavily at women.

The specific idea that a room ’ s true beauty is in the empty space within the roof and walls came from Laozi, a philosopher and the founder of Taoism, who held to the “ aesthetic ideal of emptiness ”, believing that the mood should be captured in the imagination, and not so heavily dictated by what is physically present.

The court ruled that, " Apple cannot get patent-like protection for the idea of a graphical user interface, or the idea of a desktop metaphor copyright law ..." In the midst of the Apple v. Microsoft lawsuit, Xerox also sued Apple alleging that Mac's GUI was heavily based on Xerox's.