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 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 often read the text as autobiographical, the three central characters standing for William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley.

Commentators suggest there are various interlocking driving forces, which are changing the rules of business and national competitiveness:

Commentators have assembled these into various possible translations ( such as " Iron Star-flame " or " Iron of the Flaming Star "), but Tolkien did not give a definitive translation.

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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 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 suggested this was an example of Portillo taking the initiative in terms of Conservative Party policy and was the first step towards increasing acrimony between Hague and his Shadow Chancellor.

Commentators on the British Constitution sometimes draw a distinction between the Labour Party ( which was created outside Parliament and later achieved office ) and the Conservative and Liberal parties ( which began as parliamentary factions ).

Commentators also sometimes see differences between the Hardy Boys of the original Hardy Boys Mystery Stories and the Hardy Boys of the Hardy Boys Casefiles or the new Undercover Brothers series.

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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 argued that a standard methodology is needed to present an accurate picture of performance, to make individual private equity funds comparable and so the asset class as a whole can be matched against public markets and other types of investment.

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 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 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 asserted that these controversies have been exaggerated or distorted by some elements of the press as part of a more general campaign against political correctness.

Commentators have suggested that the injustice of demolishing a structure seen by the owner as legal could be designed to whip up anger against the MDC elected City Council, thus compromising the MDC's support base in the urban areas.

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

Commentators have criticized the response to the fantasy league as a slap on the wrist: the school ordered the students to a one week long in-school suspensions, but the story did not receive outside attention until Dowd's column was published.