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A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

"Far from making progress we seem to have been going backward since the notion of reproductive health was born, " Phumaphi said.

On the Kanban Development list, the original poster's position was that the notion of 'standard work' did not apply to software development.

Women are also protected by effective laws and are no longer the weaker sex. The sense of dignity is real, not just a notion.

Instead, the notion of a culture can be thought of as a unique combination of a country and a language.

Indeed, like Howells, he started with the notion, which he never entirely abandoned, that America was more innocent than Europe.

I should not have spoken so, if I had known her true condition, but I could not get rid of the notion that she acted a part of her disorder.

Increased dexterity is based on the notion that a jack-of-all-trades is often the matter of none.

As a notion of value, national ethos possesses the value of cohesion, that of spiritual sustenance and that of spiritual motivation.

He said "It was originally made as a comment upon the notion of 'the disappearance of the art object' " .

The notion is, you do the work first, then let the client decide how much to pay for it.

My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it.

I sort of agree with this notion, but at the same time say that with a bluetooth keyboard I can be productive on the iPad.

The most popular notion was that some substance builds up in the brain during wakefulness, eventually to cause sleep.

Even where the notion of identity would seem to be fairly secure, notions of citizenship can be slight.

She was one of three slaves. There was a very small farm. It wasn't kind of the notion of a plantation that we have.

When one has such a notion, activity is a mere unavoidable means to something else; it is not significant or important on its own account.

The notion that the U. S. defense budget can cover alliance shortcomings is not true, he said.

The US notion that markets should remain as free as possible from regulatory shackles "was as simplistic as it was dangerous" , he said.

The notion that GE paid no taxes in 2010, and even got a refund seems to have come from a misreading of its accounts.

Prof Davies said: "We need to give up the notion that ET is sending us some sort of customised message and take a new approach. "

Note that ConTest does not know whether a bug has actually been revealed -- it has no notion of how the program is expected to behave.

He said the notion that markets are capable of regulating themselves is "an oxymoron. "

This has not got to do with economics or even politics, it really had to do with the remnants of a traditional notion of empire.

You know how, in the progress of epistemology, the isolation of the notion of cause has produced considerable difficulties.

But how much of that notion is based on the fact you know they were priced $50 the day before?

But, he says, 'I really like the notion of not having to look to a superior, to have independence and be doing the entrepreneurial thing.

There has been a split in American writing between a cultivated, Europeanized concept of literature, and a notion of a native literature.

Mr Frankel said he would be looking for a break in payrolls data to corroborate the notion that the economy was bottoming.

It's fairly easy to wrap our heads around the notion of the mother-child bond.

I recall that in the early years of the euro zone there was a general notion in the markets that the Greeks were behaving like the Germans.

The notion of modality derives from Aristotle. It has been a continuous study which interested many logicians, philosophers and linguists.

They were all stunned that I had no idea it was Eid and apparently the notion that they should inform me about it never crossed their minds.

The notion that a "bit of reserves" would help keep you from getting sick probably stems from the days when food was scarce, he said.

However, people familiar with the matter discount the notion that there were steps Bain could have taken to get the transaction approved.

The nonspecialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory.

The result of Wiener's book was that the notion of feedback penetrated almost every aspect of technical culture.

And yet the sales figures seem to challenge the notion that we all opt for "integration" above "open. "

I think it comes down to the notion of responsibility and the fact that happiness is, at least under ordinary circumstances, a choice.

BEEP is a peer-to-peer protocol, which means that it has no notion of client or server, unlike HTTP.

I never thought that alcohol could ease the notion of the sadness Now what used to be a happy home done turned into some bad shit!

The notion of viewpoints is an abstraction that provides a specification of a system, limited to a particular set of problems.

The Idea itself is not to be taken as an idea of something or other, any more than the notion is to be taken as merely a specific notion.

Similarly, the notion of "level of detail" is often used to help identify subprocesses.

A partition is often allocated as an integral number of cylinders (based on the possibly inaccurate notion of a cylinder).

The notion of a schema was used by Kant and has been used in different loosely connected ways ever since.

The implication of governance conception emerged that referred to a new change notion of administration reform in public sector.

Your patient will, of course, have picked up the notion that he must submit with patience to the Enemy's will.

To this notion, I give a heartfelt disagreement for the general education, a broad range of knowledge will never be out of date.

seeming to have got into his head the notion that, because he liked Heathcliff, all hated, and longed to do him an ill turn.

The Shredder Clock is just a concept, but it's a pretty good idea, and a new spin on the notion that money is a great morning motivator.

The notion came to her to improve upon the accompaniment with little trills and flourishes.

But in Russia, where the notion of a tsar survived the Soviet Union, divided power is usually problematic.

Enlightenment as a romantic notion, the golden color, the light, the omniscience, you know, all of that is fine.

If a language has no future tense, for instance, its speakers would simply not be able to grasp our notion of future time.

But mothers hoping to get a little more shut-eye by formula-feeding should put that notion to bed.

The notion of a universal, objective scale of intelligence, however, did not take shape until the 19th century and the arrival of Darwinism.

The notion of actually being able to adjust light output on the fly seems to be fairly new to many lighting designers.

she says, laughing out loud and waving her hand in the air as if batting away the notion.

Explaining the notion of a 'triple bottom line' is often the biggest hurdle.

The truth of the matter is that this blanket notion that going to college will guarantee you a better economic future is not always true.

Soldiers and cops and firefighters, he argues, embody a notion of public service to which the rest of us are now no more than spectators.

The notion that bad individuals should not be allowed to prosper does not exist in most species, yet it has been crucial to human evolution.

The notion that these stocks are bound to enjoy huge gains longer term depends on the definition of what the long term is.

Many researchers define irregular settlements as those that develop outside of the law. But such a notion can be misleading .

Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage.

Scientists in our day have largely abandoned the notion of a Creator as an unnecessary hypothesis, or at least an untestable one.

Dr. Benjamin Rush, also known as the father of American psychiatry, was among the first to promote the notion that alcoholism was a disease.

And it says that the notion that it has a dominant market position in European markets is wrong, as the competition is just a click away.

In the following pages, I attempt to develop a notion of the contextual and cultural nature of textual meanings.

He built on a technology known as hypertext -- the notion of establishing links to connect any concept, or document, to any other.

Gilbert laughs at such a notion . . . he loves them . . . but to me they always seem to be remembering some secret, too-sweet thing.

However, some experts argued that the notion that there was nothing but the eight Model Operas in Cultural Revolution culture is mistaken.

I think it's sort of a cynical notion to think that this new tool is going to spread the incidence of cheating.

But who can rule out the notion that the most improbable alternative might be the only one possible?

Once the notion of injustice has come into your mind, you might as well get up and start your day regardless of the fact it is still dark.

Such a subversive notion has recently received the endorsement of senior figures at the Bank of England.

For the cheerleaders , the key notion was that individuals (who used to be called employees) needed to take charge of their own careers.

The notion that education peaked around the time of the complainer's own graduation, and has gone down ever since, is an ancient one.

I love entrepreneurs, and I enjoy the notion of building new, amazing things. But I do want you to think about this space, too.

Here the notion of a charge per transaction is possible using payment instruments like credit cards.

Get the notion of "It's bad to be male" out of your head right this second.

What was the matter with these women, always set upon this marrying notion?

Germany, in particular, has been allergic to any notion of Eurobonds that would bring it a step closer to a "transfer union" .

My mind suddenly seized upon the notion that this was a Saturday the busiest day on the bridge and here we sat.

Law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free an intelligent man to his proper interest.

The non-specialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory.

My siblings and I were instilled with the notion that there was something problematic, even shameful, about having a rich father.

If you reject the notion that this nation's promise is reserved for the few, your voice must be heard in this election.

But this notion of when something is toxic, something is not right for the patient, the strategy really is to cut it out.

Ones notion of Heaven and Hell seems to be within the mold of ones most profound motivations, emotions, and personality impulses.

Paravirtualized means that the coLinux kernel has no notion of the real hardware except that of the CPU and memory.

But the search eventually turned into a bit of a joke, and the phrase never came to embody one particular notion.

Scientists said the results, if confirmed, would expand the notion of what life could be and where it could be.

The notion that she had forgotten to lock the front door obsessed mother all through the movie.

The notion that she might be a lesbian had never occurred to her before.

The image of a stutterer's words banging into each other as they try to get out and into a sentence is a pretty compelling notion.

Now. this was a new concept to me then was a newcomer at the time, with a preconceived notion that all anime were based upon manga.

This notion that the economy is self-stabilising is usually right but it is wrong a few times a century.

Everyone was a locavore, even New York had pig farms nearby and shipping food all over the place was a ridiculous notion.

' Yet another tweeted: 'Due to the DPJ, democracy and the notion of a nation's sovereignty are about to be lost.

This notion, if taken seriously, is "incomprehensible" , says Ms Bernstein. Profits are easy to measure.

And isn't that an impossible standard to meet, if a child does not even grasp the notion that ads are trying to sell something?

"Welfare dependency" is usually approached from the perspective of the New Right, using this notion to attack the welfare state regime.

As a notion, critical thinking is ambiguous and vague, and its up holders have so far no clear explanations for it.

However; that method would be unusable from a language that has no notion of unsigned integers.

It may be an old notion that women are the ones who get attached in a relationship, Reilly says.

But soon this notion died away as I looked up in the sky.

She said keeping the seventh-day Sabbath was a "stupid notion, " for you can't tell which is the seventh day.

Our people seem to have the notion that foreigners are being hypocritical, and ridicule the advice.

Consecutive governments have gone to great lengths to destroy any sort of notion of working class solidarity and identity.

"There should be age limits, I mean there has to be, we do have to preserve some notion of innocence in our society, " he said.

There is something compelling, in a ghoulish sort of way, about the notion that earth's climate may be headed toward a tipping point.

The company pursues the policy of talent localization and adheres to a development notion of "Great Company, Great People" .

Matter does indeed cause curvature, and this curvature is present even out in space. But that's not the same as the notion of up or down.

He'd had only a vague notion about it, but the idea rekindled a passion born when he began acting with drama groups in high school.

Personalized education, as an advanced notion, is widely applied in teaching and is of much significance to the training of new talents.

There is no romance in the notion, nor any stoicism to be found in facing up to the fact.

In this paper we introduce the notion of a normal fuzzy left(resp. right) ideal in a semigroup , and investigate some of its properties.

Because images have no notion of a baseline, the BASELINE value may not be used within the anchor point parameter of image drawing requests.

It is no good to put lots of make-up and notion on your face. It is better to look natural.

It vaguely seems to me that I am expected to perform an allotted task, but as to what it is I have no notion.

Some are beginning to speak up, challenging a widespread notion that homosexuality was brought in by foreigners.

L popularized the notion of a "soft path" on energy, with a strong focus on energy efficiency.

Officials from across the American government began holding teleconferences each morning and quickly settled on the notion of a swap.

The notion that the speed of thought could be measured, just like the density of a rock, was shocking.

Here we don't have a notion of orienting the surface other than by precisely choosing one of the two possible normal vectors.

I'll do that by introducing the notion of a use case and talking about how one of these beasts is organized.

The notion of correspondence is illustrated by an association between two relations, tagged with a dedicated stereotype.

The notion of a transaction turned out to be significant, although I didn't come to this realization immediately.

What seems to affect levels of stress hormones is not income, but competition for status, a broader, fuzzier notion.

But the notion is the truth of necessity, which it contains in suspension in itself; just as, conversely, necessity is the notion implicit.

Some wonder if it might help Greece, undermining the notion that Europe has a rich, well-run western half, and a poor, backward east.

Yet, the viewpoint of fabrication did not come out as a positive notion, but arose in the criticism and denunciation.

Don't be misled by the notion that your web site is going to deliver millions of visitors from all over the world.

All this is hard to square with the notion that wars have become more frequent and deadlier since the end of the cold war.

Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended.

But the notion that we were connected to other animals, was one that was deeply upsetting to a lot of religious people.

Much like the archetypal notion of God, identifying oneself as God or Messiah is a disastrous form of ego-inflation.

Obama. Still, this doesn't seem to be hurting Sen. McCain, reinforcing the notion that in politics, attacks work.

This was the notion that a murdered man's ghost would loiter round the dead body before moving to the next world.

eg. Departing from this notion, we can take out the concept of fictitious economic law out of the body of present economic law.

You are beginning to feel very tempted by the notion of making some bold, brave, dramatic move.

Even though the financial crisis is about a year old, plenty of executives have resisted that notion.

There is no soil where this notion cannot take root, just as every democracy reflects the uniqueness of a nation.

Such a philosophy rests upon the uncomfortable notion that Africans, "joyous by nature, " as Chirac once said, are simply big children.

Indeed , what worries me is the entire notion of world leadership seems to me terribly archaic .

if that will be your married look , i , as a christian , will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander.

to a life of constant dieting by the misguided notion that men prefer women with a model-like physique.

The results of this study and the general notion of psychological contracts highlight several potential implications for employers.

Extending the notion of the multidimensional signature, annotations enable you to express multidimensional interfaces.

As the above analysis shows, at the heart of strategy research programme lies the notion of strategy-following behavior.

With that notion in mind, expanding Kiva in to the U. S. during an economic crisis might just be a brilliant move.

Capital Is No Constraint U. of Chicago's Erik Hurst challenges the notion that the rich are more likely than the poor to start companies.

Does our ordinary notion of a "true self" simply pick out a certain part of the mind?

They opposed the very notion that government has a role in ending the cycle of job loss at the heart of this recession.

The fifth thing is that maybe after 2, 500 years, Plato is still having his way with us in his notion of perfect forms.

A year on, other parties have banded together behind the notion of multiculturalism but the Sweden Democrats have not budged.

Is " Hypermedia describes Protocols" the new way to think about the notion of HATEOAS, and does it make it easier to understand?

Sewing circle Marie Watt, a Seneca, is one of those Native artists challenging the notion of what American Indian art is.

The simplices must share a notion of time, which unfolds steadily in the direction of these arrows and never stands still or runs backward.

And again, the notion of delivery is the end goal that you're trying to do here.

Due to mutation people at last beginning to use their brains more than 34%. Completely lost the notion of evil and hatred.

Think for a moment of what more you would do if you surrendered the notion that everything needs to be absolutely, utterly perfect.

The notion of the CIA leaking unreliable and yet oddly precise information sounds like paranoia.

Until this week, I had subscribed to the notion he would return in March and play a Florida tuneup or two before heading to Augusta, Ga.

Mongolia's political history certainly seems to support a romantic notion of their independence.

That "speaks" was not a slip, but a reinforcement of the money-equals-speech notion.

Today, digital music economics are dominated by the iPod, with its notion of a paid-up library of personal tracks.

In later times, the Jews lacked the Christian notion that Jesus was the monogenes or unigenitus, the only-begotten of God.

Obviously, I disagree with this notion that somehow we did not forcefully object to Russians going into Georgia.

This notion of relative deprivation seems to carry weight in countries once they grow past a consumption of $1. 95 per person a day.

Iter said it would be wrong to dismiss out of hand the notion that an amateur could make a difference.

Those young men had not a notion of French, and could speak on no subject with striking knowledge.

The PowerPC architecture has no notion of a stack for local storage.

This is an excellent development because it helps reinforce the notion that SOAP is nothing but a series of one-way messages.

The whole notion of chivalry was about dressing it up to make it respectable.

This statement does not mean quite as much as it used to, however, because the very notion of a kernel is fairly arbitrary.

In " Metaprogramming with closures, ExpandoMetaClass, and categories, " you were introduced to the notion of a delegate.

The VDC notion is really slick and I think something like it is going to be required in any serious cloud API going forward.

At least on the federal level, the notion that due process required a lawyer was well established by the early 20th century.

It's built around the notion of a VDC, which contains networks and clusters of servers and public IP addresses and storage services.

I disagree with the widely accepted notion that "you can't test quality into a product. " You can test quality into a product.

Where Ant is only an XML scripting tool, Maven is a general build tool, focused on the notion of a project object model (POM).

notion n. Have you any notion how much it costs to keep a private car?

All in all, Mr Obama's stance lends credence to the notion that the US no longer sees Europe as a focal point of its geostrategic interest.

But others held it up as convincing proof of the notion that the world's oil production would soon reach a pinnacle, never to be exceeded.

we must overcome the notion that we must be regular. . . it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The notion that there could also be some down sides to a wholesale government takeover of America's big banks is given short shrift.

It may be that the notion of fair play is an intangible equivalent of these systems.

His notion of political religion is one of a great regression to paganism and idol worship.

He is of a generation of Russians that cannot shake off the notion that Russia's natural adversary is the US-led Nato alliance.

The framers of the Constitution placed great faith in the notion of a written plan for government that would stand as the law.

"The notion is that you cannot do your job without using our trade secrets. And without specifics, it's just not likely to fly, " he said.

But they said the notion of Politico as a journalistic sweatshop is pure myth.

"Being yourself" can be far from easy in a world that clings to an obviously failing notion of leadership and power.

He was hypercritical of others and cherished an exaggerated notion of his own spiritual advancement.

All here who are analysts, have at least a vague notion that the axis, the centre of this term, is given by the following.

Because decorate a budget finite, hutch defends the notion that comes to a lot of decorating realize goodwife through a few detail.

These words were said so falteringly, and seemed to hide some painful notion that was so persistent, that I feared for her reason.

But at the same time, a sort of, if you will, realism; an awareness that this notion of prophecy is rather farfetched.

He also declined to speak to reporters after a Wednesday afternoon shoot-around, furthering the notion that he was all business these days.

Finally, optimists dismiss the notion that stocks will have to fall because credit is in the midst of a renewed sell-off.

the notion of a style-less, transparent art is one of the most tenacious fantasies of modem culture.

The word 'dialogue' goes beyond the notion of chatting and has a broad meaning of communication, exchange, negotiation etc.

Among the shocking things in the book is a notion that it takes a half a second for our consciousness to process an event.

Wittgenstein puts forward the important notion of "form of life" and takes it to be the premise of philosophical investigation.

Worse still, Bob's behavior and the accolades he receives simply reinforce the notion that everyone should work around the system.

To Lyman's notion the general impression of this center of the life was not one of strenuous business activity.

Thoughts on Movie-TV Culture's Absorption of the Aesthetic Notion "Agree and Yet Differ"

The notion that the Chinese economy has so much momentum that it has "decoupled" from the US looks like a myth.

Now, of course no one is saying Alston is better than those guys. But since the notion bandied.

But the notion that an app can create users and data and then can be transferred into a database, and shared and monetized in that way.

A psychiatrist reframed it for her: He reminded her that the sensation isn't merely an empty notion.

The notion was so plausible that I at once accepted it, and went on to assume the how of this splitting of the human species.

Talk about American dreams: the notion that things might be different this time is at the top of the list.

It is straightforward, easy to use, and POJOs are much easier to comprehend than the notion of an "entity. "

Hut the notion of the closed difference of height difference is always confused in the practical use for construction survey.

"Many of them subscribe to the notion that America is still going to be an economic powerhouse in the coming decade. "

They reinforce the notion that the child is incapable of good behavior without coercion.

In particular, the notion that putting more kids through college can restore the middle-class society we used to have is wishful thinking.

The notion of a muse was nonsense to her, a passive thing.

What we 've done already is set up the notion that we were blessed and need to give back, even if it ' s in a small way.

The true notion of holy evangelical truths will not live, at least not flourish, where they are divided from a holy conversation.

The major plot in this movie is heavily reliant on the notion that two or more people can share the same dream.

This code defines a Schematron abstract pattern that covers the abstract notion of a purchase order with a unique identifier.

Left with nothing to say , Dixon realized how wild a notion the cockchafer speech had been .

Around three years ago its fierce resistance to the notion of any limit on its greenhouse-gas emissions started to soften.

Mapping a product in a product type hierarchy into a category establishes the semantic notion of product of type x.

Turn on the television, and all you see is show after show pile on the notion that everyone has to be in a love relationship.

This attitude challenges the commonly accepted notion that users feel overwhelmed with staying constantly up to date.

If, however, you write an XML schema for a vocabulary which already has its own notion of type substitution, then xsi: type will not work.

And the notion was that I could make an organization not built on normal coherencies, but built on non sequiturs, built on randomness.

Indeed, the evidence supports the notion that male castration might be the ticket to a longer life.

The book offers an entirely new interpretation of Deleuze's philosophy centred around the notion of thought as a capacity to form relations.

however , if you step into a tcm pharmacy , you ' ll find tcm medicine is quite another notion . . .

When talking politics, however, the French, like the Americans, tend to go for the more formal notion of justice.

The public at large's acceptance of the notion of information actually gives us ways to understand God.

He rejected the notion that the US is only interested in fiscal stimulus while continental Europeans want regulatory reform.

Eventually, such bubbles are bound to burst, killing growth, and any notion of decoupling along with it.

The notion of having one or more assistants seem to be only for the rich and powerful.

Asked about her notion of well-being by researchers from Oxford University, Jiyem said, "I cannot picture what well-being means. "

None of the other specific notions exhibits this totality complete on both its sides as the notion itself and objectivity.

One of those is the once controversial notion of an individual "mandate" to purchase insurance.

The notion of a string of idyllic desert islands off the coast of northern Spain is an unlikely one.

Neither the notion of surface nor the notion of the effect of the line and of the cuts is to be rejected.

This notion that government is not a catalyst in this industry has no basis in fact.

Negation, the notion of the absence or nonexistence of something or of the denial of a proposition, is conceivable to the human mind.

Her notion was to walk as a pilgrim, fasting until she was given food and not resting until she found shelter.

It always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around.