Commentators have questioned whether Obama, who was elected the first black President of the United States, is black enough, as his mother was white American, and his father was a black Kenyan immigrant.

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 were quick to refer to Major's previous " Back to Basics " platform to throw charges of hypocrisy and had knowledge of the affair not been kept closely guarded by Tony Newton, " it is highly unlikely that Major would have become prime minister ".

Commentators have read various messages in the incident: a reflection of struggles between priestly factions in the post – Exilic period ( Gerstenberger ); or a warning against offering incense outside the Temple, where there might be the risk of invoking strange gods ( Milgrom ).

Commentators have taken very different approaches to Machiavelli, and not always agreed.

Commentators such as Leo Strauss have gone so far as to name Machiavelli as the deliberate originator of modernity itself.

Commentators, as early as the Classical era, on have excused Noah ’ s excessive drinking because he was considered to be the first wine drinker, the first person to discover the soothing, consoling, and enlivening effects of wine.

Commentators have become important in communicating the relevance of the characters ' actions to the story at hand, filling in past details and pointing out subtle actions that may otherwise go unnoticed.

Commentators have traditionally perceived a decline of rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Commentators in the 21st century have on the whole regarded Scott more positively, emphasising his personal bravery and stoicism while acknowledging his errors, but ascribing his expedition's fate primarily to misfortune.

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 have in the late 20th and early 21st centuries stated that contemporary Canadians had and have a poor understanding of the Canadian monarchy.

" Commentators have indicated that what she meant was that the reference of objects remained central to her work, although the representation of them had not.

Commentators may have confused the philosopher with an athletic trainer, Pythagoras of Samos, but it is also possible the trainer and the philosopher were the same person.

Commentators have argued, however, that the avowals by the IHR that they do not deny the Holocaust are misleading.

Commentators have observed at least seven times in which Wesley, " who has trouble getting into the Starfleet Academy " and is on a ship " filled with Starfleet's best and brightest crew members ", has come up " with the needed solution ".

Commentators who have summarised the plot of Finnegans Wake include Joseph Campbell, John Gordon, Anthony Burgess and William York Tindall.

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.

Commentators have stated that, " more than just a pretty face ", Antonia Fraser is an accomplished historian and " an intellectual ".

Commentators have been nearly unanimous in their praise of the organization and structure of " A Hunger Artist " and have extolled Kafka's brilliant fusion of fantastic and realistic elements in this work.

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

Commentators have used strong language for the concluding section.

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 have claimed that the attention given to this particular case arises from Lafave's physical beauty.

Commentators claimed that Chapman was not a subtle captain and lacked tactical astuteness.

Commentators and authors within or formerly within the Liberal Party of Australia have claimed similar activity in their branches has had a similar effect.

Commentators such as Tim Watson claimed that Ablett had " become obsessed with the whole idea of going out there and being the best player " in order to win the Brownlow Medal.

Commentators often take pride in the idea that all Chinese theatre styles are similar but with minor variations on the pan-Chinese music-theatre tradition and the basic features or principles are consistent from one local performance form to another.

* Scholarly surveys of focused topics from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: articles on Aristotle, Aristotle in the Renaissance, Biology, Causality, Commentators on Aristotle, Ethics, Logic, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Natural philosophy, Non-contradiction, Political theory, Psychology, Rhetoric

Commentators such as Paul Kocher, John D. Rateliff and C. W. Sullivan encourage readers to treat the works separately, both because The Hobbit was conceived, published, and received independently of the later work, and also to prevent the reader from having false expectations of tone and style dashed.

Commentators attributed these price increases to many factors, including reports from the United States Department of Energy and others showing a decline in petroleum reserves, worries over peak oil, Middle East tension, and oil price speculation.

Commentators use beginning birth dates ranging somewhere from the later 1970s or the early 1980s to the early 2000s ( decade ).

Commentators ranging from Kerensky to French ambassador Maurice Paléologue considered Michael's action as noble and patriotic, but Nicholas was appalled that Michael had " kowtowed to the Constituent Assembly " and called the manifesto " rubbish ".

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.

Greenspan did not deny that the government might act to “ manage an orderly liquidation ” of a large financial “ intermediary ” in a crisis, but he suggested only insured creditors would be fully repaid, that shareholders would be unprotected and that uninsured creditors would receive less than full payment through a discount or “ haircut .” Commentators pointed to the 1990 failure of Drexel Burnham Lambert as suggesting “ too-big-to-fail ” considerations need not force a government rescue of creditors to a failing investment bank or other nonbank, although Greenspan had pointed to that experience as questioning the ability of firewalls to isolate one part of a financial firm from the rest.

Commentators were drawn from those who had collaborated in the performances in earlier years.

Commentators have widely commented that this is in contravention of Article 158 which stipulates the body that should seek an interpretation from the NPCSC is the Court of Final Appeal.

Commentators remarked on his ability in the series to switch from being a goal scorer to a mucker and grinder.

Commentators suggest that aside from Arctic Roll's low price, many consumers buy the dessert out of feelings of nostalgia.

Commentators from both inside and outside the hip-hop community have criticized the cost of many of the accoutrements of hip hop fashion.

Commentators have reflected on Sawyer's career as follows: Grant Sawyer served two turbulent terms as Nevada's governor from 1959 to 1966.

* Charles Anthon, The Satires of Juvenal and Persius with English Notes Critical and Explanatory, from the Best Commentators, Harper and Brothers, ( 1857 ).

Commentators attributed these price increases to many factors, including the falling value of the U. S. dollar, reports from the United States Department of Energy and others showing a decline in petroleum reserves

Commentators attributed the NPD's success to alienation stemming from economic depression.

Translated by Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum from the Greek in: Late Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus, with the Scholia from Later Commentators.

# Paulus Alexandrinus, Introductory Matters, in Late Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus, with the Scholia from Later Commentators, ( translated by Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum ) Archive for the Retrieval of Historical Astrological Texts ( ARHAT ), Reston, VA, 2001, p. 19.

Commentators have noted that the film's ending closely parallels the short story " Kaleidoscope " by Ray Bradbury, from his 1951 short story collection The Illustrated Man.