There's a widespread impression that D.M.V. employees consider their customers' time worthless.
"There have been no fundamental bugs," he said, reflecting a widespread impression in other European countries.
Contrary to a widespread impression, the recent uptick in America's productivity raises more questions than it answers.
Organ donation rates in Israel are among the lowest in the developed world, about one-third the rate in Western Europe, in large part because of what Health Ministry officials and doctors describe as a widespread impression that Jewish religious law prohibits transplants as a "desecration of the body".
Their reports, Erica Grieder writes, have contributed to "a widespread impression that Texas is corrupt, callous, racist, theocratic, stupid, belligerent, and most of all, dangerous".
However, things that get printed often enough begin to seep into the general consciousness of the past, so there is a widespread impression that Welles wrote "Citizen Kane".
In a telephone interview last week, Gerald Mansbach, president of Kentucky Elec tric Steel, acknowledged that a widespread impression had grown up that anyone could get into the steel business.
At various points in the book, he alludes to a widespread impression of Coe as arrogant, aloof and rather unlovable – the Steve Davis of athletics.
The post on your blog last Friday created a widespread impression that you would be analyzing the election on ABC News.
