About one-third of Americans describe themselves as independent voters, creating a widespread impression that a large group of Americans will provide the decisive swing votes in this year's election.
They are an attempt to provide, as Fareena Alam puts it, "a widespread impression that Britain's Muslim communities are pressure cookers waiting to explode" and that they are "somehow incapable of participating peacefully in democracy".
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.
There's a widespread impression that D.M.V. employees consider their customers' time worthless.
Contrary to a widespread impression, the recent uptick in America's productivity raises more questions than it answers.
These incidents have compounded a widespread impression among the people of Baghdad that the Americans are careless of Iraqi lives.
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".
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".
The post on your blog last Friday created a widespread impression that you would be analyzing the election on ABC News.
But the move left little doubt that Mr. Bush, who is usually loath to resort to public dismissals of administration staff members, wanted a change in leadership as he sought to erase the widespread impression that his administration had failed to respond quickly and aggressively enough to a crisis of immense proportions.
