Sentence examples for idea of capital from inspiring English sources

Nor do they like the idea of capital charges.

One professor said white kids aren't used to looking into the barrels of guns which they assume are unloaded and that the idea of capital punishment for protest never crossed their minds.

This may partly have been because in order to be eligible to serve in a federal death penalty trial the jury had to be "death-qualified" – open to the idea of capital punishment – despite the fact that Massachusetts abolished the death penalty at state level three decades ago.

"They were founded on the idea of capital versus labour, which isn't what most people feel any longer, and yet, because of the longevity of the party system, people are still attached to these labels, and that completely alienates and disenfranchises the great majority of people who are thinking about other things".

If it makes sense, what can be realistically done to expand the idea of capital shares?

She hinted at the idea of "taxing capital more than work".

Still, Europeans are slowly warming to the idea of venture capital.

Bowling Alone provoked deep academic debate and study, firmly placing the idea of social capital on the intellectual map.

The idea of a capital city located in the interior was proposed in 1789 by Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, a leader in the independence movement.

It may have liked the idea of foreign capital and the enhanced economic growth and efficiency markets can deliver, but it was less partial to relinquishing control.

Despite its eagle's-nest setting above a biblical landscape, Abu Dis seems a long way from anyone's idea of a capital.