Sentence examples for of a certain idea from inspiring English sources

The European judges decided otherwise, declaring that the preservation of a certain idea of "living together" was the "legitimate aim" of the French authorities.

They address a central function of the Ivy League: the communication of a certain idea of American heritage, to which the campuses of Yale and Princeton, with their Gothic spires and soaring archways, are monuments.

The kick was memorable above all for its expression of a certain idea of adaptability – a quality Carter stresses is key to the way the All Blacks play the game.

My idea was: cop as good guy (Jekyll), villain as bad guy (Hyde).' So the Rebus books were born in a deliberate avoidance of the literary - or rather, of a certain idea of what the literary should be.

So when it came to thinking about a new body of work, I wanted to do something that was in some ways about the photo book as much as about documentary photography, and Frank's "Americans" is kind of the bible of a certain idea of documentary photography if you like.

Mr. Mueller contends that YouTube users are as important an audience as the festivalgoers: "I see them as the defenders of a certain idea of cinema, a multitude that represents a real audience, curious, active and that goes looking for cinema wherever it's hidden," he said.

His school of Republicanism, which had its last serious national airing in the Goldwater campaign of 1964, stands for a certain idea of the Constitution — the idea that much of the power asserted by modern presidents has been usurped from Congress, and that much of the power asserted by Congress has been usurped from the states.

The other focuses on the acts themselves: for Immanuel Kant, the right action is the one that conforms to a certain idea of duty, regardless of consequences.

"People look for a certain idea of transmission, patrimony and some notion of Parisian elegance" said Maria Solimène, head of collections at Chaumet, in Paris, which has made opulent chic a leading motif for its watch line.

It's not all empty chairs, of course; there are also rooms filled with eager auditors whose devotion to a certain idea of reading is enough to restore any author's morale.

Like Miami Beach, Lapidus stood for a certain idea of the exotic.