"There's conceiving a symphony.
Mr. Trimble, a designer for an architectural firm, explained that he had conceived of the criterium — a contest usually run on a short course on city streets — to draw together divergent strains of racers.
Tucked into the short film program of the fest is the first film made on the basis of a contest conceived and spurred on by AmEx/TFF partnership -- My Movie Pitch.
She was referring specifically to the two people who had conceived the contest in her honor, Thomas N. Carruthers, a prominent Birmingham lawyer, and Cathy Randall, a former administrator at the university.
When it was conceived, the contest seemed to take the steam out of other so-called open-data initiatives, said Amanda Hickman, who teaches journalism at Columbia University and is organizing a panel about government transparency there on Tuesday.
"I have never conceived of this case as a contest of wills between me and Mr. Gates," he said, referring to William H. Gates, the software company's founder.
Nevertheless, a contest has begun.
A contest between brothers was unique.
