However Juhanen ( 1992 ) is skeptical about an affiliation of Japanese to Altaic languages, while Róna-Tas ( 1998: 77 ) remarked that a relationship between Altaic and Japanese, if it ever existed, must be more remote than the relationship of any two of the Indo-European languages.

He became the third Soviet leader to die in less than three years, and, upon being informed in the middle of the night of his death, US President Ronald Reagan, who was seven months older than Chernenko and just over three years older than his predecessor Andropov, is reported to have remarked " how am I supposed to get any place with the Russians if they keep dying on me?

But caution is needed when assessing any literary movement, for example science fiction writer Bruce Sterling, reacting to his association with another SF movement in the 1980s remarked:

The " absence of any unifying principle drawing together the different heads of economic tort liability has often been remarked upon.

" Robertson for his part denied that Helm had written any of the songs attributed to Robertson and his daughter later remarked in a letter to the Los Angeles Times that Levon Helm's solo work consists almost entirely of songs written by others.

Alfred Kazin characterized Dreiser as " stronger than all the others of his time, and at the same time more poignant ; greater than the world he has described, but as significant as the people in it ," while Larzer Ziff ( UC Berkeley ) remarked that Dreiser " succeeded beyond any of his predecessors or successors in producing a great American business novel.

Later in life he remarked, " I never would have gone back to school if there had been any other way of learning to read the subtitles in the movies.

Microsoft vice-president Craig Mundie remarked " This viral aspect of the GPL poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organization making use of it.

In December 1982, Smith remarked to Melody Maker, " Do The Cure really exist any more?

When Benjamin Disraeli, future British Prime Minister, visited the city in 1830, he described it as " a city of palaces built by gentlemen for gentlemen ," and remarked that " Valletta equals in its noble architecture, if it does not excel, any capital in Europe ," and in other letters called it " comparable to Venice and Cádiz " and " full of palaces worthy of Palladio.

" Subsequent to that, he remarked that he is concerned that Aristide will accept the Chavez offer but deflected any discussion of whether Preval himself was prepared to raise the matter with Chavez.

Clifford attempted to allay such fears when, responding to a query about whether he was a hawk ( favoring aggressive military action ) or a dove ( favoring a peaceful resolution to the Vietnam War ), he remarked, " I am not conscious of falling under any of those ornithological divisions.

" Hardly any traces of that function are found in the subsequent tradition ," Karl Galinsky remarked in passing.

J. R. McNeill, an environmental historian, has remarked that Midgley " had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history.

Lauzun remarked later in his memoirs, " Siberia alone can furnish any idea of Lebanon, which consists of a few huts scattered among vast forests.

Though his statement was technically a guilty plea, and was accepted as such by the Missouri court, observers remarked that it was notably devoid of any contrition, or specific acceptance of responsibility.

It may be remarked here that Independence is a temperance town, and will not allow ( since the Bowersox affair mentioned in another chapter ) any saloon to exist in the place.

She once remarked of the 1978 album Ellen McIlwaine, " It could have been any other female vocalist, and next time it will be.

In its early stages, the Court held the view that interstate commerce was wholly immune from state taxation " in any form ," " even though the same amount of tax should be laid on ( intrastate ) commerce ," This position gave way in time to a less uncompromising but formal approach, according to which, for example, the Court would invalidate a state tax levied on gross receipts from interstate commerce, or upon the " freight carried " in interstate commerce, but would allow a tax merely measured by gross receipts from interstate commerce as long as the tax was formally imposed upon franchises, or "' in lieu of all taxes upon ( the taxpayer's ) property ,'" Dissenting from this formal approach in 1927, Justice Stone remarked that it was " too mechanical, too uncertain in its application, and too remote from actualities, to be of value.

Franz Joseph remarked to Prince Leichtenstein, who was the couple's devoted equerry, " That a man could be found to attack such a woman, whose whole life was spent in doing good and who never injured any person, is to me incomprehensible ".

In 1812, Cuvier made what Bernard Heuvelmans called his " Rash Dictum ": he remarked that it was unlikely that any large animal remained undiscovered.

On returning to Evanston, Byrdsong's wife requested a leave of absence for the coach, to which Byrdsong remarked, " My wife, after watching me, obviously got concerned, now, any time I'm going to take a walk on the wild side, I should let her know.

The whole scheme appealed to Jones as he was a natural practical joker, and remarked that he was able to play one of the largest practical jokes with virtually any national resource that he required.

Examining this pottery, Charles Thomas remarked that " the quantity of imported pottery from Tintagel ... dramatically greater than that from any other single site dated to about 450-600 AD in either Britain or Ireland ".

According to Plutarch, Caesar remarked on that decision saying, " Today the victory had been the enemy's, had there been any one among them to take it.

Writer Gail Simone explained these lapses in the continuity of Bane's appearance in an issue of Secret Six, in which Deadshot remarked that Bane merely kept his old Venom equipment with him out of habit, even though he states that he would sooner die than use it again.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

And then, some churchmen remarked, there is a more classical church-state problem:

Displaying his knowledge of music, the New England-born President remarked that `` probably the best chamber music in the world is played in Vermont, by young Americans -- and here in this school where they have produced extraordinary musicians and teachers, and their work is being duplicated all across the United States.

Someone has remarked that this is certainly the ultimate in reducing.

" You see ," Korzybski remarked, " I have just demonstrated that people don't just eat food, but also words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter.

In a chapter-long essay reprinted in In Search of Wonder, entitled " Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. van Vogt ", Knight famously remarked that van Vogt " is no giant ; he is a pygmy who has learned to operate an overgrown typewriter.

" Ustinov, overhearing, remarked " He is now!

Thus, a heretic bearing the name of Sason (= Joy ) once remarked to him, " In the next world your people will have to draw water for me ; for thus it is written in the Bible ( Isaiah 12: 3 ), ' With joy shall ye draw water.

and upon observing armoured field exercises at Kummersdorf he remarked “ That is what I want — and that is what I will have .”

Stanton remarked, " The rebel is dead.

More recently Peck remarked that building a sense of community is easy but maintaining this sense of community is difficult in the modern world.

The aediles had likewise a superintendence over the public buildings, and it is not easy to define with accuracy the respective duties of the censors and aediles, but it may be remarked in general that the superintendence of the aediles had more of a police character, while that of the censors were more financial in subject matter.

Napoleon's foreign minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, once remarked: " Empire is the art of putting men in their place ".

Beatty is reported to have remarked ( to his Flag Captain, Chatfield, later First Sea Lord in the early 1930s ), " there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today ," after two of them had exploded within half an hour during the battle.

After Kaye's guest appearance, Mitropoulos remarked, " Here is a man who is not musically trained, who cannot even read music, and he gets more out of my orchestra than I ever have.

David remarked to his friends who visited his studio " this is what is killing me " such was his determination to complete the work, but by October it must have already been well advanced, as his former pupil Gros wrote to congratulate him, having heard reports of the painting's merits.