Sentence examples for an unprecedented idea from inspiring English sources

The motivation for the Carter Center was simple, he says: "We had an unprecedented idea".

This was an unprecedented idea.

Separating different sized holes with a porous partition instead of a conventional rigid partition is an unprecedented idea.

It's not a completely unprecedented idea: In the extremely mediocre season 7 X-Files episode "Hollywood A.D ., Mulder and Scully were able to recreate Jesus' voice from the imprint it had made on some clay.

This unprecedented idea, a flicker of electricity somewhere in the right hemisphere, was immediately recognized as the solution the prefrontal cortex had been searching for.

William Gates, Sr., then the head of the foundation, interviewed Beall about the unprecedented idea of correcting a mutated protein with a drug that could be taken orally, would work throughout the body, and would restore functioning of diseased organs.

In Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions A New Biological Principle of Disease, Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner describes the years of opprobrium and ridicule that accompanied his totally unprecedented idea, first advanced in the 1980s.

In his 1933 campaign, he had floated the unprecedented idea of government housing, and when he won, the White House offered to fund a New York City Housing Authority if the new mayor would set it up.

The unprecedented idea was to burn up the oil spill before it reached land.

He played gigantic conceptions, full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas.... [H]e had great imagination; he could see more deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history..

The magnitude of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico the largest oil spill in U.S. history—has inspired an unprecedented and untested idea for combating it: an extensive sand trap.