This kind of analysis by its very nature calls on the court to consider broadly held public views.

"Those laws gave birth to a broadly held ethic among people in this country," he continued.

I think that is a broadly held belief in the United States, and I certainly believe that my experience is consistent with that.

"There is an idea, broadly held on Wall Street that names with X's are more memorable and tend to capture the attention of analysts," Mr. Chajet said.

Their primary goal is to expel the Americans, a wish that is broadly held among Sunnis.

The show's curator, Patricia C. Pongracz, said the exhibition interrogates the "broadly held notion" that 20th-century artists had little interest in the Bible.

Its prime cause resides in a certain attitude of the national mind, and this kind of broadly held philosophy is not changed save by slow preaching or external shock.

It is a broadly held volume of 600 million Namibian dollars, the third largest company on the Stock Exchange Namibia.

This elite discourse, while often deliberately critical of common or typical behaviors, at the same time cannot be assumed to exclude values broadly held within the society.

It is a broadly held opinion of protesters that a march would have been less chaotic and certainly fairer.