Sentence examples for held idea from inspiring English sources

One commonly held idea about BoP businesses is that they reach profitability through scale.

But he took issue with the widely held idea that China takes the largest share of trade benefits.

"I believe that almost every widely held idea about 21st-century terrorism...is wrong and must be thoroughly rethought," he says in his introduction.

The experiments of Ms. Brown and her peers in the Judson Dance Theater turned many a dearly held idea about dance on its head.

[OnEarth] A new study of wear patterns on the teeth of the mighty saber-toothed tiger contradicts the commonly held idea that it was competition for food — in essence, starvation — that caused it to go extinct.

The idea that hormone treatment could bring on breast cancer within just a few years would seem to contradict the widely held idea that cancer takes a long time to develop.

Proverb, succinct and pithy saying in general use, expressing commonly held ideas and beliefs.

She added, "Our normally held ideas of privacy are being questioned and reinterpreted".

Brian, bearded, tweed-jacketed and pipe-smoking (or pipe-poking), held ideas that were more considered.

"I associated it with a genre of people I didn't like, who held ideas I didn't like, an ignorance".

It's probably because Williams and Ceci's findings also question strongly held ideas about gender.