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 in taxation law speculate " that profits made in virtual worlds could be taxable even before they are withdrawn as dollars.

Commentators largely agreed that little substantive progress was made on imbalances at the November 2010 G20.

Commentators point out that the first suggestion in the Torah that the ruler divest his legal powers and delegate his power of judgment to lower courts was made by Jethro to Moses ( Exodus ).

Commentators note that as recently as 2005, Key made statements indicating that he was sceptical of the effects and impact of climate change.

Commentators predicted an easy win for Lyn McLeod's Liberals, but the resurgent Progressive Conservative Party of Mike Harris, which had been reduced to third-party status since the 1987 election, made a comeback and won a slim majority.

Commentators argue that Husserl's notion of noema has nothing to do with Frege's notion of sense, because noemata are necessarily fused with noeses which are the conscious activities of consciousness.

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 pointed to the state of Britain's constituency boundaries coupled with the first-past-the-post British voting system and the distribution of votes within constituencies, which together heavily favour the Labour Party.

Commentators argued traditional banking regulation contained the “ seeds of its own destruction ” by “ distorting competition ” and “ creating gaps between cost and price .” In particular, by establishing “ cartel profits ” traditional bank regulation led nonbank competitors to develop products that could compete with bank deposits and loans to gain part of such profits.

Commentators noted that Citigroup was left with selling insurance underwritten by third parties, a business it could have conducted without the GLBA.

Commentators have noted the similarity of the opening theme in particular to the hymn tune Eventide ( familiarly sung as Abide with Me ).

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

Commentators take this " Iyo " ( 壹與, with 壹 " one ", an old variant of 一 ) as a miscopy of Toyo ( 臺與, with 臺 " platform ; terrace "), paralleling the Wei Zhi writing Yamatai 邪馬臺 as Yamaichi 邪馬壹.

Commentators attributed this trend to a series of announcements of new spending programs by Labour, and to confusion as to whether National could form a stable coalition government with New Zealand First and / or ACT New Zealand.

Commentators especially admired Riley's ability to work with the physical, deliberate Knicks, considering that he was associated with the fast-paced Lakers in the 1980s.

Commentators, however, felt that the move was representative of a perceived decline in the adventure game genre, and that LucasArts was moving to maintain its position with low business risk Star Wars-themed titles instead of the high risk graphic adventure games that had brought success in earlier years.

Commentators suggest that this expansion, together with the concessions won, gave rise to illusions amongst the leadership of the SPD that capitalism would evolve into socialism gradually.

The result, known as Johnson's and Steevens's edition, was The Works of Shakespeare with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators ( 10 vols., 1773 ), Johnson's contributions to which were very slight.

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.

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 expected the replacement of containment with superpower cooperation.

Commentators noted his grace and elegance, and the symmetria or coherent balance of his figures, which were leaner than the ideal represented by Polykleitos and with proportionately smaller heads, giving them the impression of greater height.