Sentence examples for It is commonly held from inspiring English sources

"It is commonly held that where independent activity has ceased, there too history has ceased," he noted.

It is commonly held that Barcelona achieved in four years what it might have taken 40 years to plan and build if it hadn't won the Olympic bid.

It is commonly held that a country as big and confident in its freedoms as the United States could never fully protect itself against terrorists.

It is commonly held that range anxiety, in the form of experienced range stress, constitutes a usage barrier, particularly during the early period of battery electric vehicle (BEV) usage.

It is commonly held that the majority of the leader charge is located within the corona sheath radius, which is of the order of meters, while the highly conductive channel core, with a diameter assessed at around 1 cm, in effect transports the whole of the axial current.

It is commonly held that the second half of Chabrol's career saw him relax his grip, and few would argue that "Inspector Bellamy," or even more stringent films, like "Merci pour le Chocolat" (2000) and "La Cérémonie" (1995), begins to recapture the tremulous intensity of "Les Bonnes Femmes" (1960) or "Le Boucher" (1970).

"It was commonly held," he writes, "that the underground railroad did not operate this far south".

It's commonly held that strategy is distinct from execution, but this is a flawed assumption.

In ancient China it was commonly held that solar eclipses occurred when a celestial dragon attacked and devoured the Sun.

It's commonly held that "the economy, stupid," won Bill Clinton the 1992 election – but was it really the broccoli?

It's commonly held that doughnuts came to America Manhattanano no less — with the Dutch settlers, as olykoek (oily cakes), beginning the nation's love affair with fried dough.