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 and politicians have stated that the business model results in a low utilization of the line because of the high ticket prices, which has caused the airport to not reach its targeted emission goals.

Commentators said that while he had the most political experience among prospective candidates ( over Bush and Elizabeth Dole ) and potential grassroots support among conservatives, his campaign was hampered by the legacy of his vice-presidency.

He was prominent among the legal humanists or mos gallicus school, which sought to abandon the work of the medieval Commentators and concentrate on ascertaining the correct text and social context of the original works of Roman law.

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

" 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 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 on the Qur ' an remark on the last verse that Mary was as close to a perfect woman as there could be, and she was devoid of almost all failings.

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 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.

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 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 characterize the dominating Zyuganov wing as nationalist or ' popular-patriotic ' ( which is often used by the party militants themselves ), rather than orthodox Marxist-Leninist.

Commentators have noted that the characterisation of the daughter is ( like other female characterisations in Pseudo-Philo ) much stronger and more positive than that of her biblical counterpart.

Commentators often used the terms Flemish and Netherlandish ( that is, " of the Low Countries ") interchangeably: to 16th-century Italian painter and historian Giorgio Vasari, all northern painters were " fiamminghi ", or " Flemmings ".

Commentators often refer to the ball accelerating to the boundary on fast outfields, but this only physically occurs on grounds with a slope and on which the ball is moving downhill.

Commentators sometimes suggest Lóðurr is identical to Loki, and of course in the Icelandic texts that have come down to us it is Loki who is Baldr's real slayer, with Höðr / Hother being only a tool in Loki's plot.

Commentators, Jewish and Christian, traditionally note that this first son's name is also prophetic-meaning " the remnant shall return "-but no account of why, when or how this son was named is given in the Book of Isaiah.

Commentators have opined that the piece's purpose is satirical — that " harmonic and rhythmic gaffes serve to parody the work of incompetent composers " -- though Mozart himself is not known to have revealed his actual intentions.

* 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 ).