Sentence examples for was commonly held from inspiring English sources

"It was commonly held," he writes, "that the underground railroad did not operate this far south".

It was commonly held that Charms — the hard-boiled candies that used to come with one of the meals — were harbingers of bad luck.

As the official fringe programme went to press in the spring, the EU referendum was still weeks away, it was not yet certain that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would be the US presidential nominees, and it was commonly held that Jeremy Corbyn was unlikely to still be leading the Labour party by the summer.

Though for much of the 20th century it was commonly held that Yoakum had invented the tales of his world travels, Derrel B. DePasse, Yoakum's first biographer, determined that Yoakum had, in fact, traveled to many (though not all) of the places that he described and drew late in life.

This doctrine of the plurality of substantial forms was commonly held among the Franciscans but vigorously disputed by others.

The idea of PBL being "business as usual" was commonly held by the students, and they seemed adaptive to this instructional change.

This view is commonly held across all demographic and regional groups.

That view is commonly held in Germany and countries near it.

As a result of these problems, conferences on the control of avian pests are commonly held.

What worries me is that his views are commonly held within the right wing of the Liberal party".

"It is commonly held that where independent activity has ceased, there too history has ceased," he noted.