Commentators including biographer Dean King have claimed that O ' Brian was actively involved in intelligence work and perhaps special operations overseas during the war and that these experiences informed those of his character Stephen Maturin, an intelligence agent.

The song was parodied by British satirist Rory Bremner under the pseudonym ' The Commentators ,' as N-n-nineteen, Not Out, the title referring to the batting average of David Gower, the England cricket captain, during his side's risible performance against the West Indies in 1984 when they lost 5-0.

Commentators agree that McIntosh was not a good actress, and during the run of Utopia, her lack of confidence and health problems combined to affect her performance.

Commentators have made comparisons with the Sex Pistols case, pointing to some of the statements made by John Mortimer QC: " What sort of country are we living in if a politician comes to Nottingham and speaks here to a group of people in the city centre and, during his speech, a heckler replies " bollocks ".

Commentators have claimed to discern the styles of from a dozen to twenty different artists who produced 10 or more bibles during their heyday, with the most productive artists, Mr. Prolific and Elmer Zilch, each drawing from 100 to 150 titles ; followed by the output of Wesley Morse, Blackjack and Mr. Dyslexic who each produced about half that many.

Commentators have stated that among older footballers there is opposition against artificial turf, but that long Norwegian winters cause pitches to be extremely bad during the early parts of the season.

Commentators have pointed out that the complex would have been under intensive surveillance during the war as a suspected centre of WMD production.

For example, the southern Utah pioneer and militia scout of the time John Chatterley later wrote that he had received threats from " secret Committee, called ... ' destroying angels '" in late 1856 and early 1857 .. Commentators have pointed to pronouncements during this period by Young and Grant which would seem to give vigilante-style bloodshed a religious basis.

Commentators have attributed these outbursts to the failure of settlement measures, with the perception that former nomads were among the privileged class during Communist times.

Commentators reflected that the circumstances of the MP's demise were a personal tragedy that unjustly overshadowed his achievements in life and his promising political career.

* Commentators such as Hans Moravec argue that humanity will eventually be supplanted and replaced by artificial intelligence or other forms of artificial life ; others such as Kevin Warwick point to the possibility of humans evolving by linking with technology ; while others have argued that humanity will inevitably experience a technological singularity, and furthermore that this outcome is desirable ( see singularitarianism ).

Commentators through the first half of the 20th century never tired of remarking on the local pride found in Woodlawn-" a really great section of Birmingham ... A section typical of the fine things in life.

Commentators cite only three major financial firms from outside the banking industry ( the discount broker Charles Schwab, the insurance company Met Life, and the mutual fund company Franklin Resources ) for qualifying as financial holding companies after the GLBA became effective and before the late-2000s financial crisis.

Commentators after the major shakeup in 2011 stressed the theme of a major realignment.

Commentators expected that a referendum would not be held until after the next General Election, which was expected to take place in 2005.

Commentators have said that Prentice echoed the Rip Kirby artistic style, but lacked " Raymond's excellent design sense ," although he continued to draw the strip until his retirement in 1999, the strip itself concluding shortly after.

Commentators have sometimes expressed concern that United States military and diplomatic interventions in the Middle East and elsewhere might lead, or perhaps has already led, to the existence of American satellite states.

Commentators generally praised Brash for his knowledge of economics, but expressed criticism of his inexperience in terms of political leadership.

Commentators expressed concern about the country's increasing surveillance.

Commentators expressed mixed opinions about the strength of this argument.

Commentators have used strong language for the concluding section.

Commentators ascribed her victory to a strong personal vote, decisive in a campaign dominated by issues such as the Iraq war, criticism of Tony Blair and a leap in council tax caused by periodic revaluation of property values.

Commentators from a variety of backgrounds have described Dianetics as an example of pseudoscience — that is, information presented as scientific that fails to meet the basic criteria for science.

Commentators have suggested a variety of reasons for the decline of classical deism.

Commentators differ in their views of which of these forms were most important and the degree to which the new music was a re-branding of African American rhythm and blues for a white market, or a new hybrid of black and white forms.

Commentators starting with A. Arthur Schiller assert that trades secrets were protected under Roman law by a claim known as, “ actio servi corrupti ,” interpreted as an “ action for making a slave worse ” ( or an action for corrupting a servant ).

Commentators praised his voice for its beauty, flexibility and smooth tonal emission, which are the hallmarks of a bel canto singer.

Commentators have noted that the musical line for this third subject is based on Wachet auf, Philipp Nicolai's popular Lutheran chorale.

Commentators describe the April 6, 1998, merger announcement between Travelers and Citicorp as the catalyst for the House passing that bill by a single vote ( 214-213 ) on May 13, 1998.

Commentators have argued that for storyline purposes, the Star Trek directive is broken almost as much in that franchise as intentional intervention occurs in Banks ' universe, but the Star Trek characters have to be described as trying to not intervene, whereas Banks can let his characters act purposefully.

Commentators both within and without Greece have attributed this critical flaw in Greek culture to the Ottoman Empire's brutal mismanagement of Ottoman Greece, in which individual survival became more important than societal stability, tax resistance became a form of patriotism, and property and commercial tax systems were left in shambles, thereby making it impossible for Greece to create an functional civil society or an efficient modern state.

Commentators suggesting the opening guns of a race war and called for a new buildup of the Japanese armed forces.

Commentators coined the term Rogernomics for these policies, drawing connections with Reaganomics and with Thatcherism.

Commentators have claimed that technological innovation will significantly reduce the demand for same-day parcel delivery, predicting that the fax machine, and then the internet, would render the messenger business obsolete.

Commentators such as Barlow ( 1994 ) have argued that digital copyright is fundamentally different and will remain persistently difficult to enforce ; others such as Stallman ( 1996 ) have argued that the Internet deeply undermines the economic rationale for copyright in the first place.

Commentators cited poor graphics compared to other action-adventures of the time and Schafer's lack of involvement in the project as possible reasons for the decision.

Commentators have occasionally suggested Kristof for the Nobel Peace Prize, but when Media Web named Kristof its " print journalist of the year " in 2006 and asked him about that, it quoted him as saying: " I can't imagine it going to a scribbler like me.

Commentators include Tim Oglethorpe for Northampton Town, Jon Wilkinson and Chris Barrett, who cover other local football teams and James Knight and James Burridge for Northampton Saints.

" Commentators also pointed that there are more young people and women voting for the party in 2012.

Commentators wondered if the Jets ' huge margin of victory was a way of retaliating against the Bucs for such poor sportsmanship, but the Jets and their coaches denied that there had been any conscious effort to run the score up.

Commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient experimental controls ,< ref > and for not sharing enough details of his approach with the scientific community.