For her the idea that birds have come from dinosaurs is just common knowledge and there's nothing surprising in that at all."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

This is The Life You Can Save, which essentially gives the lie to the idea that there is nothing I can do.

你可以拯救的生命》,这本书彻底地推翻了那种,“我什么都帮不上“的想法。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That's the crucial thing: if they're not willing, the use of the sign doesn't work, which confirms the idea that nothing can be changed simply by individual agency in and of itself.

这很关键：,如果他们自己不愿意使用，符号就没有意义，这也就应证了我们的观点,没有人能单独改变一个群体符号的使用方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Anschutz has given Leiweke the latitude and capital to build AEG out of nothing but an idea for a sports arena.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"Twenty-five years ago, my friends and I started with nothing but an idea--that we could harness the power of the PC to improve people's lives, " Gates says earnestly.

CNN: Gates gets slammed

Talking of London, your candidate for London and now Tory Vice Chairman Steve Norris was saying this week very strongly that if we believe in equality and so on there is nothing against the idea of gay marriages, quote "no moral barrier to the civil registration of gay partnerships", do you agree with that, you don't, do you?

BBC: News Online