Sentence examples for outside idea from inspiring English sources

And, indeed, Whiskeytown eventually went under as a result of an outside idea: drowned by waters captured by the federally built Whiskeytown Dam in 1963.

Back in the 1960s, a former assistant secretary of defense, John T. McNaughton, perhaps put it best: An outside idea has a chance to influence government policy only if it has two characteristics.

The widespread teaching of foreign languages further facilitated access to outside ideas.

Mark Little, his head of research, is even more sceptical and says outside ideas "don't really stick well here".

With a high level of education and an openness to outside ideas, Mongolians are snapping up financial products.

He strongly showed how tribal values of racism, sexism and suspicion of outside ideas ruin human development.

Ms. Jaroslow, who began choreographing in 1974, relies on outside ideas for inspiration, but designs them into something at once personal and larger than herself.

To succeed, Mr. Chesbrough said, a company must have a culture open to outside ideas and a system for vetting and acting on them.

Mr. Boorady said UnitedHealth had not been as receptive as it should be to outside ideas, saying executives were "tone deaf to their customers and their shareholders".

When Mr. Barroso invited research groups to share their views in September, he told them he was looking for outside ideas to help shape his state of the union address, an annual report on the European Union's achievements and challenges.

"In a sense this is a reversal of the conventional idea of the national pavilion; instead of presenting British architecture, we've tried to show the openness of British architecture to outside ideas".