Despite the fact that natural selection had been conceived as an original idea 100 years previously and had been published in 1859, it took a very long time before it was adopted by the scientific community.
Conceived as early as the 1930s, the idea of two states between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea all but disappeared from public consciousness between 1948 and 1967.
When the European Union was only an idea, a fantastic object, it was conceived as an instrument of solidarity.
The idea that America was "conceived as an example to the world" tends to make the rest of the world flinch.
"Provenance," created in 2008 for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, was conceived as an evening-length multimedia event.
Daniel explains that the new album, which should be released in October, will be more unified than the last one, "Tri-Danielson," which was conceived as a patchwork of different ideas.
This simplification is carried into his "skyscrapers," the Wainwright and the Guaranty, which are conceived as "a single, germinal impulse or idea" that permeates "the mass and its every detail with the same spirit".
Founded by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, it was conceived as a vehicle to promote their ideas and effect their technocratic, "scientific", Fabian transformation of society – they were also co-founders of the London School of Economics.
But Mr. Masri, the founder, said his idea was conceived as a commercial venture and not an altruistic one.
In those religions in which the underworld has been conceived as a place of postmortem retribution, the idea of a separate abode of the blessed dead became necessary.
For as much as these citizens of Perth seem to glory all things hell related only a people with true child like innocence could have conceived of an idea as simple and pure as TV park.
