Sentence examples for notion was going from inspiring English sources

I thought the notion was going to Congress was a good idea because I thought Congress would approve it.

But as the new Peltz-inspired initiatives kick in (the company says these were notions it was going to pursue all along), the market will see that Heinz still is undervalued, says Daniel T. Scalzi, director of research at Matrix USA.

"Bollier had this whole notion that he was going to be the new Q for the C.I.A.," Dornstein said.

Illustration of an occurence last Friday when the spectators did not receive the foggiest notion of what was going on.

The ensuing nuttiness — "this notion that someone was going to step on Grandma's air hose," as he put it — shows how easily facts can be distorted.

Any notion that Herman Cain was going to fade into the background as Gov. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney took center stage after last week's debate can be dispatched with.

"People had this romantic notion that he was going to wave a magic wand and everything would be fixed," she said.

"We were swept up in the e-commerce notion that information was going to become a commodity available to anybody," she said.

Pickup points out that the early 1960s had introduced the "theatre of cruelty" to Britain, and "the notion that theatre was going to get down and dirty".

But I took a train again several years ago, and I had this romanticized notion that I was going to be like Cary Grant and I was going to eat off fine china.

"There is this confluence of things that happened in the late 1990s, before 9/11," Hwang continued, "that seemed to prepare for the notion that China was going to be the next big enemy of the United States.