Sentence examples for the idea attributed from inspiring English sources

And the idea attributed to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of mounting an imperfect system to sow doubt among potential adversaries would actually inhibit the needed research.

Similarly, Mr Kay expends too much energy knocking down another false target: the idea, attributed to free-marketeers, that people are utterly greedy in all parts of their lives.

A core feature of many actual analyses of natural language phenomena within situation semantics is the idea attributed to John L. Austin 1950 that utterances are about particular situations, with the actual world being the limiting case (see the entry on John Langshaw Austin).

During the 4th century, St .John Chrysostom (onetime archbishop of Constantinople) had denounced the idea, attributing it to the devil, who had allegedly managed by various maneuvers to deceive people as varied as Pythagoras, Plato, Pliny, and even Zoroaster.

Even a growing number of Communists admit, at least in private, that China's political system— dreary, cruel and wholly inadequate for China's needs will have to change.China's leaders pay endless tribute to the "revolutionary" idea, attributed to Deng, of "one country, two systems".

But worse than that is the fact that the whole idea attributes an element of blame to tourists, implying that it's their duty to avoid attack, and not the responsibility of the low-lives who seek to ambush them.

It's being talked over in a group setting, over and over again, or having your idea attributed to someone else (more often than not a man).

The manifesto states that teacher quality is more important than skin color, parental income, or zip code, an idea attributed to President Obama.

One of the last ideas attributed to Christopher Dorner, the now infamous former Los Angeles police officer suspected of killing four people before a shootout and fire left him dead, amounts to a stock line from a Hollywood action flick.

An often-used example is the seventeenth-century investigation by Jean Baptiste van Helmont, which debunked the common thinking of the time that plants gain their mass from the soil only to replace it with another incorrect idea attributing the entirety of the mass gain to water (e.g., Ebert-May et al., 2003).

The Stoic doctrine that divine intelligence pervades the world and rules for the best borrows heavily from ideas attributed to Socrates by Xenophon in the Memorabilia.