Sentence examples for umbrella idea from inspiring English sources

'So we came up with the idea of the folding fabric roof, the umbrella idea,' he says.

Here the term "story" describes a paradigm created by the scientific community – something of an umbrella idea under which many subsequent research findings huddle.

One of the problems, according to Ann Headley, the director of rain-product development for Totes, is that umbrellas are so ordinary that everyone thinks about them, and, because they're relatively simple, you don't need an advanced degree to imagine a way to redesign them, but it's difficult to come up with an umbrella idea that hasn't already been done.

As that discussion unfolds, we can find some umbrella ideas about what happened in 2013.

Thus, engineering may rely on umbrella ideas more heavily than physics.

Set annual company OKRs that serve as big umbrella ideas for the year, but also set OKRs each quarter.

It serves as the centerpiece for a big-umbrella idea about single-fabric garments and their economy (it includes the caftan, the abaya and the jumpsuit).

In some quarters it has become an obnoxious justification to sit in rooms with lots of squeezy balls, dressed like you slept in your clothes, randomly throwing out thoughts while covered by the umbrella of "no idea is a bad idea".

Earlier this week Mr. Sabra criticized an attempt to subsume the Syrian National Council into a larger umbrella group, an idea that has been advanced by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Idaho Senate earlier this month rejected a Democratic plan that would have brought an estimated 78,000 residents under Medicaid's umbrella, and the idea appears to be dead for the year.

A walking stick (Europeans often use an umbrella, not a bad idea if rain is a possibility).