Though there were claims by the British that they had won the war, there were widely-held views at the time they had suffered an unfavourable and humiliating result.

The Wall Street Journal 's lead feature notes that the latest global economic developments challenge the widely-held view that an emphasis on short-term performance weakens an economy.

Some historians have since the 1960s argued against the widely-held view that the battle was a disaster; arguing that the Battle of the Somme was an Allied victory.

Interest in latent learning arose largely because the phenomenon seemed to conflict with the widely-held view that reinforcement was necessary for learning to occur.

He is doing nothing to dispel the widely-held view that he is a giant wind-bag.

Feduccia is best known for his criticisms of the widely-held view that birds originated from and are deeply nested within Theropoda, and are therefore living theropod dinosaurs.

In my extensive encounters over the years with international officials in the Palestinian territories, this is a widely-held view of Mr Blair's work in the region.

Evidence was found for the co-existence of species of elephant and mammoth during interglacial conditions, disproving the widely-held view that mammoths were an exclusively cold-adapted species.

His extensively documented study attempted to correct the widely-held view that Soviet industrial production had grown at a pace much greater than that of Western economies.

One driver waiting in line at a downtown gas station line expressed a more widely-held view, blaming corruption at every level.