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 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.

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 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 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 have suggested that the state secrets privilege might be used as often to prevent disclosure of embarrassing facts as to protect legitimate secrets.

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 suggested that the Board of Pardons and Parole should have revised the charge as manslaughter in 1945, which would have carried a maximum 15-year sentence.

Commentators in a variety of media sources have characterized Dane Cook's humor as unfunny.

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

Commentators during his life and after his death expressed strong affection for him.

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.

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