The sad, bad joke is the notion, put forward by many conservatives, that the USA cares about "family values".
Mr. Obama will also have to demonstrate some tangible action there, the experts say, to dispel the notion put forward by the Republicans that his plans to shut down the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, makes Americans less safe.
This is a rebuff to the notion, put forward by Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, that the future lies in smaller, smarter forces.Mr Kerry has espoused his own version of Mr Bush's pre-emption doctrine.
The Higgs boson would be the only visible manifestation of the Harry Potterish notion put forward back in 1964 (most notably by Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh) that there is a secret, invisible force field running the universe.
By comparison with Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia's history is hardly chequered at all.Ranko Bon Motovun, CroatiaScottish cohabitationSIR – The attempt to rework Scottish independence (Bagehot, November 14th) reminds me of a similar notion put forward by Quebec separatists in the 1970s.
The notion, put forward by some American conservatives, that Le Pen was de Gaulle's heir is absurd: the French learned from Vichy that you can't make a deal with the devil, even if the deal that the devil promises is to keep some other devil out.
To be successful, Democrats will need a candidate who understands three things (which Messrs. Kerry, Lieberman, Clark and Edwards do): First, this notion, put forward by Mr. Dean and Al Gore, that the war in Iraq has diverted us from the real war on "terrorists" is just wrong.
But he will have to contend with the notion that forward trading encourages unbridled speculation and leads to inflation.
Hence, our proposals conform with the general notion put forward in the nineteenth century that the developmental stages through which an embryo passes bear a resemblance to the evolutionary history of that organism.
Specifically, the delusional notion, put forward by many pros, commentators, experts, and pundits, that the game is bigger than Tiger and will survive, recover, thrive.
