Influential people are classified as idea starters, amplifiers, curators, commentators or viewers.
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However, he is much stronger on the growing tendency to see an idea as just an idea .
As neat an idea as the Pawn system is, full-fledged co-op strikes me as having far more potential.
Hence, as nice an idea as the Portas Towns may be, Mr Grimsey feels there's more gimmicks and public relations than actual long-term solutions.
To them, not using social networks at the office (or, just as likely, on the road) would be as antiquated an idea as not using smartphones.
The project A River's Dream came to life as an idea in the year 2010, celebrated as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures by the United Nations system.
Considering an idea from a pre-existing game is acceptable as long as that idea is expressed in a different way.
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Remember, an idea by itself is not a company, though most companies start as an idea.
Millions of young Americans will have their opportunities immeasurably improved as this idea gains ground.
And, unfashionable as the idea may seem, it has been given a remarkably warm reception.
But not half so scared as the idea that information technology can and will fix this problem.
Here, political pragmatism often goes by the board as every idea gets tested against philosophic first principles.
Xenotransplantation, as this idea is known, really would increase the supply of organs, but it is a controversial idea.
Geoparks as an idea combine conservation with sustainable development and community involvement.
"Second Amendment Day, " was presented by the College Republicans as one idea.
As far-fetched as the idea might be, it's certainly plausible, expected even.
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Some ridiculed this journey to outer space in the same way as the idea that people could walk on the moon was once scorned.
However, as this idea slowly crept into regulations, laws, response plans, the medical industry and the Cold War, it grew into a multi-headed Hydra.
My body recoils as the idea of saying that to them.
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Still others argue that biofuels are fine as an idea but are beset by a tangle of subsidies, tariffs and production targets that needs unravelling.
"Road pricing as an idea has got some merit, " he said.
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First, they subject the facts and the law to as much scrutiny as any idea can bear before it disintegrates into the dust of first principles.
As I pointed out in the Huffington Post, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission should be considered as an idea that was tested out in California.
As the idea has gained ground that the euro zone might form an EU inner circle, so Europe itself has come to seem more important to Poland.
The government seems to have accepted this too, as the idea of quitting together was part of the thinking behind creating Stoptober, the social quitting event held in October.
What started as an idea of "running a country without oil" in a white paper quickly evolved from vision to reality in the company's first two markets, Israel and Denmark.
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But I wonder, is this such as good idea?
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When he puts forward his plan or his set of ideas, does he envision that as his idea for what the final compromise should look like, or is this sort of an opening offer?
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