Physicists have long held the view that the rate of breakdown - or decay - for any given radioactive substance is constant.
The British foreign secretary at the time, Lord Carrington, also gave evidence to the Franks Committee, where he too held the view that Argentina was not going to invade the Falklands.
Although scientists have long recognised that mid latitudes were warmer when dinosaurs walked the Earth, some researchers have held to the view - partly based on the previous shell data - that different ocean currents must have operated at the time, leading to warmer polar temperatures but, crucially, cooler tropical temperatures.
Many MEPs held to the view that the collapsing carbon price was an accurate reflection of the real economy.
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He dismisses the widely held view that the scientific expertise required to produce and disperse lethal organisms is within the reach of only the most sophisticated laboratories.
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Asked why he had not backed their return when he was foreign secretary, Mr Cook said he had always held the same view but been unable to express them publicly when the government took a different line.
In our last post, we cited a number of reasons why the widely held view that exports are the key driver of the Chinese economy may no longer be true.
Once again, the reason he was able to make so much money on his bet against mortgages was because the broadly held view in a very deep market was that the only direction for mortgage bonds was up.
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That the directors could even contemplate making the payment, albeit it related to 2008 and was arguably, in some cases contractual, appeared to give credence to the widely held view of bankers, that they fail to understand the public wrath against their industry and, in particular, its pay levels.
The prime minister said he held the "rather quaint view" that "protesting is something you, on the whole, should do on two feet, rather than lying down - in some cases in a fairly comatose state".
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It is the investing approach of the day, meaningful mostly because fund managers want to distance themselves from the widely held view that unit trusts in Asia used to concentrate more on industries than companies, letting the region's strong growth pull them along regardless of the inherent quality of the companies selected.
We are not primarily forecasters, but the commonly held view among others who are is that housing values will be down 8% to 20% over the next 12 to 24 months.
He said the government shared the widely held view that war graves should remain undisturbed and protected.
It has been a long held view of the council that climbers accept the pursuit is potentially dangerous.
But what about the view held by some, particularly in the technology space, that companies have to grow or die?
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It is a widely held view that the Chinese yuan appreciates going into key Sino-US meetings and then stabilizes afterwards.
And yet, despite the widely held view that these incidents swayed votes, there is remarkably little academic evidence to suggest that they did.
That brings me to the last point: as I mentioned earlier this week, Houghton expressed the widely held view among antipoverty activists that growth is somehow antithetical to their aims.
Bush began his second term with opposition to the Iraq war on the rise, and was further damaged by the deeply held view that his administration failed to properly respond to Hurricane Katrina.
For Republicans, grassroots digital moments like these may help them fight the perception they are out of touch with the American people, a view held by 62% of the public according to Pew.
When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he embraced a long-held view of the American Left that the best way to deal with the fearsome danger posed by nuclear weapons was to reduce their numbers and then ultimately get rid of all such weapons.
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It is the Board's strongly held view that beginning strategic discussions now would distract our Company and thereby threaten the value of this key franchise.
Like Paul Krugman, Roach has held a bearish view of the world for much of the last 15 years.
The long-held view of Real Madrid, conversely, is that domination in soccer speaks to a larger sense of national supremacy.
But the world of Islam, in his view, has been held back by institutions like the waqf, a sort of Islamic charity which people sometimes use to create jobs for their families.
So far, these central banks have held back, in view of the big cuts to public spending taking place, sluggish growth and idle resources.
My wife was thinking the same thing about her view as she held our four year-old son on her shoulders on the opposite side of the street.
New presidents, says Hirsch, like to get their dirty work done in the first year or two of their term and then "prime the pump" to produce good times during their reelection campaigns--a view held by most of those who observe the cycle.
The vast view still captures the wild frontier and fertile land that held so much promise for those who once sailed across the sea with only their dreams and treasured culture to guide them.
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