Last month, Ségolène Royal trumped Bayrou's quiet idea for a stronger parliamentary system, dressed it up in the flag, and called it the Sixth Republic.
The scandal turned Sansour's quiet idea for a video project into an international talking point amongst both the intellectual elite and the internet's dedicated social media users.
Metro-North has reacted coolly to the quiet car idea, arguing that it is impractical on crowded commuter trains and that "We can't have the conductors playing cop," Mr. Cameron said.
A minister's record is often judged by the achievements their government shouts loudest about, while quiet but brilliant ideas go unnoticed.
Iyer, a novelist, essayist and travel writer, follows Greene's trail from his first novel, "The Man Within," to classics like "The Quiet American," exploring ideas of love, faith and divided identity.
As my tram glides out of Sarcelles, I reflect that I have not seen a single "I am Charlie" poster or pencil symbol since my arrival yet the quiet battle of ideas here is no less intense than in Paris itself.
During Mr. Stuber's appeal, the assessor's office tried to bolster its case by arguing that homes on busy streets should be valued $30,000 more than those on quiet ones, an idea that contradicts real estate realities.
China had begun, they say, to moot the idea of an alternative reserve currency to the dollar when the incidents erupted at which point China seemed to go quiet on the idea.
In a country with the EU's biggest Muslim population—some 5m he also set up a Muslim council to give French Islam an official voice.Yet on the campaign trail Mr Sarkozy has gone quiet on such progressive ideas.
Together, the two statements, posted on the Internet by opposition Web sites, made clear that opposition leaders — much like their hard-line foes — are girding supporters for a long-term battle to be waged as much through ideas and quiet social organizing as through the public protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election on June 12.
