Like many Australians, they tolerated the idea of on-shore processing, justifying it as a reasonable method of sorting out who was a genuine refugee and who was not, but the moving of whole groups of people off-shore and – particularly – the recent decision to send them to Papua New Guinea was a bridge too far.
"I really wasn't going to do another surf movie after 'Step,' and then this idea of chronicling the North Shore, which is super well known, came to me," he said.
Early this year she scuttled the idea of a commission on shoring up the long-term finances of Medicare and Social Security, which fiscally conservative Democrats believed Mr. Obama was interested in.
While the ship was sailing up the St . Lawrenceriver, he seized upon the idea of jumping overboard, swimming to shore and so escaping the internment camp to which he was heading.
Even for those who will never visit these remote shores, the idea of them, the images of them, the knowledge of them, brings an expansiveness to the heart and mind that is tantamount to hope and faith.
Already within months of Keynes' death, the nearly $5bn American bailout had been spent unsuccessfully shoring up the overvalued pound, or vainly shoring up the idea of Empire.
This idea of living history extended to the shore excursions too, which offered encounters with Native American tribesmen, costumed interpreters and modern-day descendants of the frontier folk who arrived and thrived in this stunningly beautiful – but unforgiving – area.
Nevertheless, such study has provided some insights, shoring up the idea of a vast "inflation" after the Big Bang, adding weight to a model of a Universe rich with dark matter that most astrophysicists agree upon, and finding the first evidence of helium before the first stars formed.
"We've lost some good motels in the last months, but I think most people like the idea of saving what they see at the Shore.
