The phrase "further an idea" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea of advancing and strengthening a concept. For example, "The author's second book furthered an idea explored in her first book, offering more in-depth analysis of the topic."
The House budgets developed by his running mate, Paul Ryan, would cut this kind of spending even further, an idea that Mr. Romney considers "excellent".
Further, an idea about the implementation of CPN models in a real multi-agent framework is given.
It's refreshing to talk to an artist who is confident in his own ideas and who doesn't see technology as a magic fix – that technology is used to further an idea or to realize a vision.
Casting Tom Cruise to star in Panther is not meant to further an idea, it is meant to make a profit".
When it has a real connection to the story and furthering an idea, it can become electric, when it's not just about breaking out into a song and dance.
Certain murderous ideas are in the air worldwide, and they are finding individuals in scattered places in different ways, and every attack spreads them further, plants an idea in a new head.
There is no money to help people like Bob – the pot of creativity for new initiatives that exists in the sector is vast but yet again lack of resources prevent them from getting any further than an idea.
And one of Dr. Albright's missions, they say, will be to further explore an idea raised in talks that Kim Jong Il had this summer with the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, when Mr. Kim said he would reduce the long-range missile program in exchange for foreign countries' launching North Korean satellites.
Post effect of EO treatment has been shown a dramatic reduction of high glucose which confirms the high level of insulin which further promotes an idea that this insulin are secreted only because of the stimulation of pancreatic beta cells.
The further out an idea goes, the weirder and more disturbing, death-defying, humiliating, repulsive, angry, trashy, loud, confrontational, shameful, shrill or depressing, the better the odds you'll see a show about it.
In addition, the detection of STEC O157 at the surface of tongues and omasum further provided an idea that this pathogen could be disseminated at slaughter by diapedesis of oral and gastric contents to the surroundings.
