But Iran has since signalled that it will give Russia's idea more thought.
The responses were evenly split between those who thought stock repurchase programs were a good idea and those who thought the money should be spent elsewhere.
If people had got the idea that Conservatives thought that there was no such thing as society, they were wrong.
The Sainsburys are among the richest families in Britain, but Lord Sainsbury hated the idea of being thought a rich man.
Specifically, I had hoped that the anticipated addition of the Fed Funds targets of individual FOMC members which I thought was a bad idea would at least weaken their previous collective commitment to keep that rate at its near-zero level at least until mid-2013 which I also thought was a bad idea.
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We thought the idea had been put in the long grass until after the Olympics.
"I thought the idea that trees had souls was a little hokey growing up, " says Yarnall.
For many years, so-called Chicago School economists thought the idea of tying was absurd.
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Several Dudley residents said they thought the idea of paying more council tax would be unpopular.
One of my friends saw a post about this idea on Facebook and thought I was joking.
Eighteen months ago I would have thought the idea of 140, 000 troops on that border was an impossibility.
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He also said he thought the idea of a Boris Island airport in the Thames Estuary was "a bit mad".
London Mayor's adviser on Olympic legacy, Neale Coleman, said Lord Coe, who spearheaded the games, thought the idea would be a "fantastic follow-up".
In a world where every possible idea has already been thought of at least once, the urge to innovate is opposed by an equal and opposite drive for safety.
The next time I had a great idea brewing, I thought through it, planned it out as if I already had buy-in from the group, and piped up to present it at the next team meeting.
Talking through the Wii U specs with my children (not something I often do but they were asking about it) led to them suggesting we did a similar test of controller battery life not a bad idea at all I thought.
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Healy and Brewster thought of the idea for Enernoc while at Dartmouth's business school in 2000.
He says he first thought of the idea in 1997 while waiting for a ride.
Who was it that thought up that idea, the idea that had made today better than yesterday?
Scully-Power first thought of the idea last year after meeting his current girlfriend on a flight from Thailand to Sydney.
"I was struggling for a business idea but hadn't thought of going on-line until I saw the lousy job these guys were doing, " he says.
"We thought the catalyst idea had legs, so we read the research, found out who the authors were and tried to lock up all those people, " says Perlman.
So great product, great idea, but neither are thought leading.
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In the Commons, Work and Pensions Minister Chris Grayling said that idea was "ill-thought out" and "would be more credible if it was not being made at the very last minute".
It was a foolproof idea, or so I thought.
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"For everyone who knows Dmitrichenko, the very idea that he could have thought of and ordered this crime - committed in such a brutal manner - is absurd, " read their open letter.
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