"decided opinion" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a strong or definite belief or viewpoint that someone holds. Example: "Despite the controversy surrounding the topic, the politician remained steadfast in their decided opinion on the issue."
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.
If a positive and decided opinion had e en formed, he would have been incompetent even though it had not been expressed.' At page 157 of 98 U.S. As was stated in Brown v. Allen, 344 U.S. 443, 507, 73 S.Ct.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Greeley felt compelled to print, "Mr. Marx has very decided opinions of his own, with some of which we are far from agreeing, but those who do not read his letters are neglecting one of the most instructive sources of information on the great questions of current European politics".
Had it convinced just one colleague, the memo could have been the deciding opinion.
The sheriff and his posse didn't buy into the old Dodgers regime, and nobody was more emblematic of those glory days than Scioscia, so it was apparently decided his opinion no longer mattered.
After you have decided which opinion is right, you must dig up evidence and reason for why that particular option is correct.
