The council recently insisted closing the school was still only an idea.
The initiative seemed harmless: it can only place an idea on the agenda, not actually oblige the commission to do anything (nothing came from a million-plus signatures on a petition calling for an end to the parliament's monthly meandering from Brussels to Strasbourg).
If not, markets will only benefit from discovering an idea which brings greater monetary stability.
Until Philadelphia, municipal Wi-Fi networks were an idea only for small and remote towns that the telecoms and cable firms neglected.
Interfet is also only now beginning to get an idea of what might be transpiring in Oecussi, the East Timor enclave of some 91, 000 people which is actually within West Timor.
Likewise, Apple Computer went public in 1980 with the dream of making computers household products, an idea that became only viable some 21 years later with the introduction of the iPod MP3 music player.
The idea of setting up a military command in Africa is an unpopular idea, and so far only Liberia has said it would host it, says the BBC's Will Ross in Accra.
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Only then will the Mets begin to get an idea what he can do.
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"I was not conscious about diet before but now I have got an idea to eat a useful amount only, " he said.
Once young salmon get to the ocean, scientists have only a vague idea where they go, and an incomplete understanding of why some years they thrive and some years they starve.
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Whether it meets the legal definition of a copy or not is one thing, but the perception that Zynga is a creatively bankrupt studio without an original idea in its head is only amplified by new games like this.
The impact of ETFs on the market will only get larger as fund companies expand the idea of what an index is.
While DELL is still an extraordinarily powerful and capable company, it has lost its lead in the PC market and totally dropped the idea that it can rule the world with only an operating model.
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Pursuing on an opportunity whose value is rooted only in the sexiness of the idea is a recipe for wasted time that no startup can afford.
To get an idea of where it may take us, we have only to look North to Canada and the impact of the tar sands on the strengthening of Canadian economy.
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While each of these examples is rare and probably stem from one employee's idea of a joke, companies know it could take only an occasional mistake to see years of built-up brand equity hit a bear market.
On the face of it, the idea of working to earn money, only to give it away is an odd one.
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The model was pure from the beginning: The idea was that with a distributed workforce, an individual could only handle so much work.
Critics of the newer research say that the idea that running can harm the heart is based on research showing only an association meaning that exercise may not be the cause of the problem.
But, because of myriad deductions, only half of French households pay any income tax at all, which makes that idea an electoral non-starter.
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He recalled scoffing at a proposal, only to learn that the team putting it forward already had started testing the idea with an experiment.
Not only could she see what was wrong with an article, she could also provide the missing idea that would make the piece work.
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In the Globe Scan survey, a whopping 79 percent of Nigerians said they had come up with an idea for starting a business at some point in their lives, but only 27 percent of Russians reported having done so.
This is to reject the idea of an international tribunal, and instead to hold trials before Iraqi-only courts.
The card can initially only be used at Asda but it is hoped the idea will extend to other shops after an evaluation.
Every commitment to an idea is ultimately subject to forfeit to the exigencies of the moment, if only one puts on the perfunctory public showmanship about fighting and resisting first.
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Many are only just getting their heads around the idea of 3D printing but scientists at MIT are already working on an upgrade: 4D printing.
If you are in an industry for decades, not only do you develop a sixth-sense about what a good startup idea is (or is not), you can help the entrepreneurs you fund with networking leads, hands-on advice, and a host of other intangibles related to improved chances for success.
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