Sentence examples for idea of a time from inspiring English sources

That's where this very simple idea of a time journal comes in.

Berners-Lee toyed with the idea of a time axis for his protocol, too.

So, if this hasn't put you off the idea of a time traveller's tattoo: what would you get done?

It speaks to a nostalgic idea of a time, pre-1975, when governments by and large did have control over the forces that shaped their citizens' lives.

Faulks (although sporty and particularly keen on cricket) likes the idea of a time when no one felt the need to go to a gym.

The White House announced that President Bush and the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, had agreed on the idea of a "time horizon" for withdrawing American troops from Iraq, thus seeming to endorse the general approach that Obama has been advocating (and his opponent just as firmly rejecting) all along.

The business-minded like the idea of a time-zone between New York and Asia.

When performance art first emerged as a major artistic current in the 1960s and 1970s, on the other hand, its very nature seemed antithetical to incorporation by an institution — partly because the artist's medium was largely his or her own body, partly because the idea of a time-based experience meant that the act couldn't, or shouldn't, be reproduced.

Once they opened up to the idea of a time-inconsistency problem — if I give the farmers the money for fertilizers now, they may waste it on going out for drinks or other spending that doesn't help in the long term, but if you offer them a commitment device, maybe that makes a difference and they do actually go for the fertilizer — they found huge effects.

In a report to the IAEA's 35-nation board in June, Mr ElBaradei had called Iran's obstruction of the inspectors' work "disconcerting and regrettable".In his talks with European diplomats, Mr Larijani has also toyed with the idea of a time-limited suspension of enrichment work only to be overruled by his bosses in Tehran, says Gary Samore of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations.

"We live in a world that follows a fixed idea of time, a standard synchronized time held in place by time zones, clocks, and calendars.