Since dislike of being governed by a minority of Tories was a big reason why many people thought devolution was a good idea, many Labour voters may now think it is not worth the bother.
The Bush administration had been lukewarm to such a plan until Monday, after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told a House committee that he thought a stimulus plan was a good idea.
Look: All of baseball thought it was a good idea for you to come back.
James R. (BO) Holland thought he had a good idea when he launched Works.com in 1997.
They thought it was a good idea to upload the address books to help users connect with friends who use the same app.
And I expect someone thought it was a good idea - at the time - to introduce the rabbit and the cane toad to Australia!
I'm sure that's why Republicans in Massachusetts, and even at the Heritage Foundation, thought it was a good idea when they came up with it.
Dennis Murray, executive producer of daytime programming, said executives there had heard the phrase being used by administration officials in recent days and thought it was a good idea.
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And on top of that, Congress, up until this point, has thought it was a good idea to send billions of dollars more in tax dollars to the oil industry.
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Both sides thought it was a good idea.
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If a trade deal goes south, and a leader negotiated it in part because she thought it would raise her popularity abroad, but also in part because she thought it was a good idea, did she commit a punishable act?
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Right now, the ruling Partido Popular, whose leader Mariano Rajoy thought it was a good idea to go to the football while his country teetered on the brink of breakdown, is calling for the resignation of the man sent in to sort out the banks.
Again, I think if you look back at some of the decisions that were made in terms of continuing support for helping banks that might collapse, or helping auto companies that were near bankruptcy, I don't imagine that there were majorities of Democrats or Republicans that might have thought that was a good idea or something that they readily supported.
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.
In addition, Sarkozy thought it would be a good idea to involve Chavez in the negotiations.
Joseph and Robert thought it would be a good idea to hire their own lawyer.
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Several women thought it might be a good idea if it encouraged parents to choose a healthier option.
And I thought it was probably a good idea to keep him there.
But you know what, I've always thought it's a good idea to have a woman's hand on the wheel as well.
At one time, the Gulf leaders thought it would be a good idea to circulate lists of offenders and temporarily confiscate their cheque books.
With that in mind, the video rental company thought it would be a good idea to look at the quality of the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) consumers are using in America.
And yet much the same was also true in pre-devolution Scotland and Wales: polls showed that while most people thought an assembly was a good idea, they gave it a low priority.
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New York Yankees management thought it would be a good idea to identify players by where they hit in the batting order, hence No. 3 was issued to Babe Ruth, No. 4 to Lou Gehrig.
"Since the three of us come from three different parts of Afghanistan and speak in three different languages - Pashto, Dari and Uzbek - we thought it would be a good idea to sing in English, " says Ahmad.
With NaNoWriMo well underway and writers around the globe hammering away at their keyboards like crazed woodpeckers trying to get at that tasty grub hidden just out of sight, I thought it might be a good idea to take a step back for a second.
What I've always thought, it's a good idea to have a woman's hand on the wheel, as well.
Naturally, we thought that it was also a good idea to apply for the job to see what else we could learn.
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Second, even if we thought a national sales tax was a good idea, this is a silly way to do it.
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