The "Pretty Little Liars" series, for example, was conceived as "'Desperate Housewives' for teens".
Big Brother, for example, was conceived as what's known as a "x 30" but eventually settled as a "x 60", with extensions to "x 90" or "x 120" for the introductory and concluding programmes of each run.
(And lest you pooh-pooh these updated conceptualizations as the utopian visions of idealists, remember that the Measure of Economic Welfare, for example, was conceived of by no less than Nobel Laureate James Tobin). Concisely: the opulence bubble says that stuff probably yields sharply diminishing returns in human terms.
Both the French and American revolutions, for example, were conceived and launched from coffee-houses.
An example of such a model was conceived by Harris and Rowland (2001) who developed a 1-D model, FLOWGO, in which the velocity of a control volume flowing down a channel depends on rheological properties computed following the thermal path estimated via a heat balance box model.
Huxtable cites the Encyclopedia Africana as an example, which was conceived as the realisation of scholar WEB Du Bois's vision of a counterpart to the Encyclopedia Britannica that would be "unashamedly Afrocentric, but not indifferent to the impact of the outside world".
For example, the iPod was conceived because Jobs wanted to help spur sales of Macs and wanted something to make people buy more computers.
For example, when my brother was conceived no one had figured out how to freeze semen yet, so his biological father was literally just jerking off in the other room, like ten feet away from my mom.
The idea that America was "conceived as an example to the world" tends to make the rest of the world flinch.
McCain goes on, however, to observe that Niebuhr's chilly Realism is not enough to animate soldiers or the public and, moreover, that "America was conceived as an example to the world, and while our pride in that purpose may indeed be sinful, it has made this world a better, more just place".
When a Giacometti sculpture, "L'Homme Qui Chavire," came up for sale, for example, six bidders sought the work, which was conceived in 1950 and cast a year later.
