An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business.
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.
Remember, an idea by itself is not a company, though most companies start as an idea.
For those of us trying to navigate a way out of this political problem, having the race allows us to build bridges across communities and celebrate our nation as an idea that is positive not divisive.
Notably, prominent investors such as Warren Buffett are not pleased with the idea of an exchange.
Was it not so much an award to a man as it was to an idea of the leadership we have ever since needed but have yet to find?
As the founders of Portrait Salon, Carole Evans and James O Jenkins write in the newspaper-style catalogue that accompanies the show, the idea began as an experiment and was not intended to upset or disrupt the Taylor Wessing, but to allow those whose work did not make the walls of the NPG another outlet.
The Republicans do not seem to have paid an electoral price for dismissing the idea as class warfare and preventing its implementation in Congress.
The idea of Oslo not as a new era of peace but an interlude between two periods of war will come as a shock to many who witnessed the Great Handshake on the White House Lawn seven years ago.
Much of the American public sees Ron Paul as something of an ideological oddball (Cutting the Federal Reserve is not a mainstream idea).
Under attack, after all, is not the idea of divinity as such but a representation of God deriving from an ancient folktale which exists in Persian, Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian variants as well as in Hebrew.
But win Risztov did, and by doing so, she added more heft to an idea that's always been seen as daring, if not reckless: that the best way to win a long race is to blow past the field at the start and never look back.
Not being a lawyer, I had no idea how the court would rule, but as an economist, the question is really a no brainer.
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Despite the efforts of legislators to resolve the thornier issues--such as making sure that a woman's decision to have an abortion is not influenced by the idea that her fetus's tissue may help a victim of Parkinson's disease--the current calm in public attitudes may well be fleeting.
What about this idea of MPs not being able to earn outside of what they get as their salary for an MP.
Boosting public spending to reduce unemployment, as Mr Bertinotti wants to do, is not an option: euro rules, in effect, prohibit that idea.
But apparently broadcasters aren't hip to the idea that most viewers see TV commercials as an annoyance and, more often than not, mentally tune them out anyway.
Since the exchange rate is a binary issue, not distorted by an overhang of global liquidity, we take euro-dollar stability and falling gold as rejecting the idea of a Fed rate cut.
Dr Cantornas said that it was not necessarily the best idea for patients to rush out and start taking vitamin supplements, as the bowel of an IBD sufferer may not be able to absorb it well.
"Pride of ownership" was a favorite phrase of my father's, embodying an idea real as bread to a man of his background, one having to do not with social competitiveness or conspicuous consumption but with his standing as a manly provider.
Oddly enough, it was the conservatives who first called for local elections two years ago, as a means of getting rid of an official they did not like, and Mr Khatami later adopted the idea in the hope of strengthening his democratic base and decentralising authority.
So far not even Mr Blair has felt able to endorse either the American idea that Iraq is an imminent threat (as opposed to a longer-term one), or America's concept of pre-emption.
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But I think what we lost sight of was that the triumph such as it was of democracy and liberalism at the end of the Cold War was not just the victory of an idea, it was the victory of powers that believed in an idea.
It is not an easy read, but he seems to be saying that the idea of sanctuary is what unites humanity as one body.
Julia Gillard has said she is open to the idea of an inquiry into media ethics and ownership, though noticeably she hedged and did not go as far as to announce one.
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