Sentence examples for firmly held view from inspiring English sources

"He made a mockery of the firmly held view of the Army Council that white rank-and-file soldiers would not take orders from a black man.

Despite those damning details, to most local people, the closing of the investigation seems like vindication for their firmly held view that there is little or no need to apologize for the past.

Speaking to The Independent Daniel Taub reasserted Israel's firmly held view that the Geneva accord, signed at 4am on Sunday morning, will do little to contain the threat posed by Iran, or to slow its progress towards acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Tydeman agrees, finding the writer "diffident and quiet, willing to listen to advice but with firmly held views on certain aspects of the text or production".

The success of the anti-Bork campaign is widely seen to have shifted the tone and emphasis of Supreme Court nominations since then, giving them an often strong political cast and making it hard, many argue, for a nominee with firmly held views ever to be confirmed.

I'm not on Jobseeker's allowance, but at the same time I have family allowance, I have very firmly held views which I'm propagating at the same time".

All these issues are, on occasions, confused and there tend to be firmly held views, with a reluctance to negotiate, on either side of the debate.

Of course, that requires a firmly held world view and clearly articulated goals -- which are in no short supply with Mr. Rumsfeld.

Olbermann's success, like O'Reilly's, is evidence of viewer cocooning — the inclination to seek out programming that reinforces one's own firmly held political views.

The theory asserts that people work to confirm their firmly held self-views, even when they are negative.

It's a widely held view.