But Westchester County, New York, District Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro expressed an opposite view.
That is exactly why Mr Blair and Charles Clarke, the new education secretary, took the opposite view.
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The other two guests - who also founded their own companies - had exactly the opposite view.
If he comes to power, a confrontation with Brussels, which takes the opposite view, would surely follow.
Enter the opposite view in the form of MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson, who quickly averred that growth is not dead.
But Adweek, citing the same sales figures, takes the opposite view.
Vodafone takes the opposite view: its international coverage gives it economies of scale in research and development and greater clout with equipment vendors.
And the Reverend Sally Foster-Fulton, convener of the Kirk's Church and Society Council, will put forward the opposite view at the event in Glasgow.
Fifty-two percent of respondents said they thought it was a mistake to send U.S. troops to Iraq versus 47 percent with the opposite view.
Small banks, and the politicians who speak for them in Congress, take the opposite view: that Basel 2 will benefit big banks at their expense.
But the American system also guarantees the rights of those who argue for the opposite view: that Islam is basically a peaceful, universalist faith which restricts rather than enjoins the use of violence.
It is simply not sustainable that people who lost their right to represent the people in the last election, the people who had a directly opposite view on this question, ought to be the deciding votes.
Taking the opposite view, some activists there were angry at the FSA for fleeing, believing that, even without Nato, continued defiance in Baba Amr - however high the cost - might have spelt the end of the Assad regime.
Over the weekend, the Senate committee, led by Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, released internal Goldman emails that suggest the company was positioning itself to take advantage of a market drop even though it was packaging securities and selling them to clients who had the opposite view.
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It states that marriage is only possible between a man and woman and warns that a change in law will "severely restrict" Catholics' ability to "teach the truth about marriage in schools and other arenas if they are also expected to uphold the opposite view at the same time".
"The opposite point of view is no longer tolerated in Sri Lanka and many fear to get involved with investigative journalism, " Mr Gamage told the BBC Sinhala service.
Naturally, whole clusters of clergymen have felt the need to weigh in on this issue each one finding references in scripture that would support their often diametrically opposite points of view.
Ironically, the best answer is probably to take a view that is the polar opposite.
Goldberg debunks the widely held view that communism was the opposite of fascism.
And yet it is possible to view the same scene and draw the opposite conclusion.
My view of technical analysis is thus the opposite of the TA textbooks.
People jostled on the green opposite launch pad 39B as they tried to get the best view.
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Most people view the Occupy Wall Street movement as the ideological opposite of the Tea Party, yet they share a remarkably similar motivating principle: a concern that our economic system has become fundamentally unfair.
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He sometimes leaves advisers on opposite sides of an issue with a sense that he has supported their view a distinctly Obamian quality.
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