'a decided opinion' is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means a firm or definite opinion. Example: I have a decided opinion on the matter and firmly believe that the new policy will benefit our company in the long run.
It figures that Mr. Lodge, 54, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, would have a decided opinion.
His encyclopedic knowledge spread into unlikely areas, for example, beer: he seemed to know, have tasted, and developed a decided opinion about every brand available.
So spoke "a woman writer of decided opinions," F. W. Dupee, the Columbia English professor and critic, recalled in an appreciation of Agee written in 1957, two years after the writer's death.
The artist William Rothenstein recalled: "I think of his huge frame, of his superb appetite, his constant consumption of cigars; of his odd shyness too, and his self-consciousness, of his decided opinions expressed with a Jamesian defensiveness".
But its reporting is mixed with Mr. Scheiber's very decided opinions — about, say, the size and shape of the stimulus and the political feasibility of passing something larger — that some readers will vigorously contest.
In spite of very decided opinions, Bizet was still immature in his outlook on life (youthfully cynical, for instance, in his attitude toward women) and was plagued by an artistic conscience that accused him of preferring the facilely charming in music to the truly great.
Perhaps I've sensationalized, but the introduction last week of Sunday Review, the successor to the venerable Week in Review, marks a decided turn toward more opinion journalism.
So does it matter, for example, that recent polls have found a decided movement in public opinion toward protecting privacy and civil liberties and away from the government's anti-terrorism priorities?
Indication of an "evenly divided court" does not require the time for review and editing of opinions that a decided case requires.
If this argument ever had any validity when the Arab dictatorships appeared immovable, it has precisely zero now that Arab public opinion is a deciding factor in how the politics of the region develops.
"Jonny was in no way a deciding factor but I respect his opinion," said Flood.
