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Facts do work their magic, even on strongly held views.

But there are those who would hold strongly held views to the contrary."

This occurs in particular when two people have opposing but strongly held views on truth or events.

There was serious discussion and some strongly held views about the causes of this phenomenon.

Most farmers have their own strongly held views or even prejudices, and I am no exception.

The featured writers in them increasingly are local residents with strongly held views, which can become controversial at times.

"John Ashcroft, like many of us, is a man of strongly held views," he said.

Kyffin Williams is known for his strongly held views on the current state of much art.

At the same time, he said, he believes that the church is diminished when people of strongly held views separate themselves from it.

Professionals in the field, including academics, consultants and corporate practitioners, have many strongly held views on the topic.

These strongly held views are not surprising.

For all of the talk about negotiating tactics, all sides have valid and strongly held views on the issues.

People took up strongly held views.

Whether it's packed lunches, T-shirts, birthday parties or holidays, they now have their own strongly held views.

Hubert Saal was known for his strongly held views.

An action of his took on a new meaning in light of his strongly held views on this matter.

We have found ourselves split between countries, within countries, within delegations, often with strongly held views.

Judge Souter, the issue of capital punishment is a controversial topic, with strongly held views on both sides.

It is recognised that there are strongly held views on both sides of the 'smoking argument'.

How the general's strongly held views will fit with those of Mr. Bush and others on his team will have to unfold along the way.

Some editors, however, raise the question of whether Mr. Forbes has politicized the magazine with his strongly held views.

"He has strongly held views.

Make a list of what you believe to be your own specific, characteristic and strongly held views in terms of attitudes, preferences, and prejudices.

Yes, we must respect human dignity and I completely respect my colleagues' strongly held views as to what human dignity is.

I think you can have strongly held views on this, which I do, without letting it get in the way of bipartisan relationships on other issues."

For years, "it has been a brutal battle to get even the most minor accommodation of our most deeply held views."

It's hard to believe that Mr. Dole was candidly revealing his most deeply held views.

I haven't been shy about engaging in controversies when I held deeply held views before.

They also fly in the face of the clear and deeply held views which the community has expressed in discussion of these matters over the years."

This view also has obvious political value, but, like Mr. Bush's talk of the "American Century," reflects deeply held views.

His writing is never as openly political as other contributors such as Diderot and Voltaire, but it is clear that he possessed deeply held views.

"Given my deeply held views of Judge Bork's splendid character and capacity," she said, "I am startled and saddened" by the vociferous opposition to his nomination.

Other members of the group put the individual under "extraordinary pressure" to examine fully his or her most deeply held views, and to do so in the presence of the group.

Perhaps because he is in many ways an absolutely objective choreographer, he successfully exposes his deeply held views on society and its problems, in particular man's inhumanity to man, through dance.

Since these policies represent deeply held views within each society, the right of the lex domicilii, lex patriae or habitual residence to apply is usually recognised.

And in Giuliani's outraged judgment, it is a wrongful use of tax dollars to underwrite "sick stuff" that desecrates "the most personal and deeply held views of people in society."

The relative merits of two point vs. four point barbed wire are the subject of deeply held views among many farmers and ranchers, to the extent that both types are still made today.

But despite their similar styles, they have divergent, deeply held views on the role of government in society, something that Professor Rebovich says is often overshadowed by the vituperative give-and-take of the campaign.

The Cubans, however, with the help of state resources, have used television and film to encourage the development of the values of the revolution, especially where these are at variance with traditional and deeply held views.

Mrs. Clinton's sheer visibility, the interests of her prominent state, plus her deeply held views on matters like education, health care and child care will inevitably bring her to swordpoint with the incoming administration.

Cutler's deeply held views on humanity meant he disliked corporal punishment and on leaving a teaching job he held in the 1950s he cut up his tawse and handed the pieces to the class.

Given my deeply held views of Judge Bork's splendid character and capacity, I was startled and saddened by the proliferation of reports from interest groups contending that his presence on the Court threatens that group's particular interest.

Even today, Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, says that Mr. Gephardt's shift to support of abortion rights 17 years ago "suggests that he will abandon what he professes to be deeply held views on a fundamental ethical issue for political expediency."

One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing, because he had forgotten where he had parked it, was repeated with relish; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the 'intellectual's' practical ineptitude:

"And therefore we will do everything that we can to remove funding for the Brooklyn Museum until the director comes to his senses and realizes that if you are a government-subsidized enterprise, then you can't do things that desecrate the most personal and deeply held views of people in society.

The study, to be made public today, challenges two widely held views about the work force.

There are two widely held views in this area.

The recent, prolonged bear market has cast a long shadow over these widely held views.

It seems likely, for instance, that some of Freud's work affected widely held views on sexual matters.

With that in mind, here are three widely held views that may well seem foolish before the next decade is out.

And one does not need to be a genius to realise that this message runs counter to widely held views.

Self-employment contributed only a quarter of these jobs, contrary to widely held views that they dominate.

While those are widely held views in Mexico, they are rarely voiced in the discourse of diplomacy.

Mr. Schwarz's plan rests on two assumptions, both contrary to widely held views of city government.

His refusal to embrace widely held views on matters ranging from European unity to the role of women in society stirred a nationwide furor.

Karadzic reflects widely held views in Serbian society.)

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.

More recent work has challenged widely held views about government owned banks by showing that, far from acting as an obstacle to growth, such banks can actually enhance both financial and economic development.

The role played by The Destruction in shaping widely held views as to distribution of and evidence for these, has for decades been, and arguably remains, almost canonical in Holocaust historiography.

Since that time, it has emerged as a major player in the Canadian pageant industry, influencing the scoring systems of numerous other events, and actively seeking to alter the widely held views of what a teen pageant entails.

"There are widely held views that, somehow, the lawyers in these cases made out like bandits at the expense of the Holocaust victims, which is grossly untrue," said E. Stuart Eizenstat, the American government's chief negotiator on the issue.

What made Mr. Illarionov's remarks so striking was not their substance - they reflect widely held views among Western critics of the Kremlin and those few in Russia who still risk speaking publicly - but their source, from an insider.

Scientist at Work Correction: October 18, 2003, Saturday An article in Science Times on Tuesday about Dr. Michael J. Ryan, a University of Texas biologist who challenges widely held views of evolution, misstated his title.

Iam always grateful when influential pundits make such statements, especially in prominent places, for in so doing they protect us from the ever-present temptation to take people seriously simply because they are influential, to imagine that widely held views must actually make at least some sense.