The phrase "a deeply held view" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong belief or opinion that someone maintains firmly over time.
Example: "She has a deeply held view that education is the key to social progress."
Alternatives: "a strongly held belief" or "a firmly held opinion."
These positions are not posturing: they represent a deeply held view that the US does not need trade except on terms that put America first.
While it is still a deeply held view in older generations, some suggest it stemmed from the postwar period where a tax surcharge was hypothecated for the National Welfare Fund, designed to provide aged pensions, unemployment benefits and other payments.
Justice Scalia responded that legislators may have many reason for their votes, including "a deeply held view," "this is the least of the available evils," "my personal view is the other way, but my big contributors want this" and "on my way in the party Whip said vote 'aye.' " "But the act of voting," he wrote, "symbolizes nothing".
But it is also true that Mr. Bush was articulating a deeply held view among conservatives in his administration: that American power and influence, recently exercised in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein, should be used to advance the horizons of democracy, not just to protect American national interest by securing strategic commodities, like the oil resources of the Persian Gulf.
That demand reflects a deeply held view at the F.T.C. that without such a model, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to enforce a settlement with the companies without turning the commission into a new Internet regulatory agency that would be frequently forced to oversee rates and set technical standards.
Given the circumstances surrounding any rape, and certainly a resulting pregnancy, can you tell us why you feel there is no need for a rape exception to a ban on abortion?... MR. ASHCROFT -- I understand these are deeply held views of yours, and my opposition to the aborting of unborn children has been a deeply held position of mine.
Like the provocative title, the hostility to "the grid" that underpins "In Praise of Wasting Time" sometimes feels more like a narrative hook than a genuine, deeply held view.
But they reflect a simple, deeply held view: you have to pay for talent.
But it seems to reflect a more deeply held view inside the Administration.
One obstacle to the emergence of such a Pakistan is the deeply held view within the Pakistani security services that the United States will abandon the region once it has defeated or disabled Al Qaeda.
He had a year to come up with something that would protect the rights of prostitutes, which the court said were being violated, but which would also reflect his party's deeply held view that prostitution was a criminal act and should be eradicated.
