51.   Paleontologist Ken McNamara said Thursday the find was significant because it shattered the widely held view that the first creatures to evolve from the sea were herbivores.

52.   Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson reflected a commonly held view among other nations.

53.   Supporters also say the widely held view of hunting as a favored pastime of aristocrats and the upper classes is unfounded.

54.   Their warning defies the more commonly held view that global crude reserves will remain plentiful for decades.

55.   Their Cassandra-like warning defies the more commonly held view that global crude reserves will remain plentiful for decades to come.

56.   The most commonly held view is that smugglers and corrupt border guards are to blame for the mess.

57.   Moslem clerics and senior officials of the Amal party, of parliament speaker Nabih Berri, held similar views.