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.
Similarly, while the White House may have given birth to the idea of sequester, that idea can only become an ugly reality if executed by the Congress.
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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But Wall Street took an idea that is suitable only for a limited number of specialized, wealthy clients and sold it to ordinary investors in some cases with disastrous results.
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.
While College Jobs was only a short-term venture, it planted an idea that has taken root with Moore the idea of building companies to solve problems for people.
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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.
Chinese investment in India is an idea whose time has come, if only the two sides can conquer a legacy of mistrust.
Conventional wisdom holds that the arrival of the Democrats has raised the risks for China, an idea Mr Paulson and his team are only too happy to propagate.
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The idea that a bomb is the only defence against an implacable American enemy might become stronger than ever.
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.
The idea to deliver a speech to an invisible Obama only came to him 15 minutes before he stepped out on the stage in Tampa, Florida.
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.
There was only one problem with my idea: We were in the middle of building an Agency of Innovation an unproven, new-to-the-world category that would rely on a creative new business model and offerings.
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Second, Mr. Kerry has embraced the idea of an amnesty for illegal aliens, something that will only serve to compound our present vulnerabilities here at home by ensuring still further influxes of undocumented foreign nationals, including among them terrorists.
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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