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

Commentators such as Quentin Skinner and J. G. A.

Commentators observed the failures and some air forces, such as the Luftwaffe, concentrated their efforts upon direct support of the troops.

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 such as Stephanus of Byzantium suggest that this Aithaia was in Laconia, thus indicating a large-scale uprising in the region.

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.

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, such as the historian Richard Pipes, the philosopher Michael Polanyi, and the economists such as Paul Craig Roberts or Sheldon L. Richman, have argued that War communism was actually an attempt immediately to eliminate private property, commodity production and market exchange, and in that way to implement communist economics, and that the Bolshevik leaders expected an immediate and large scale increase in economic output.

Commentators ascribed her victory to a strong personal vote, decisive in a campaign dominated by issues such as the Iraq war, criticism of Tony Blair and a leap in council tax caused by periodic revaluation of property values.

Commentators note that people who have a low body image will try to alter their bodies in some way, such as by dieting or undergoing cosmetic surgery.

Commentators often use the term " exceptionalism " to describe surprising developments in economic progress, such as the economic growth of post-World War II Western Europe or the ability of Sweden to generate small-business growth while maintaining high levels of taxation.

Commentators noted that many of the facts of such incidents seemed to change, often with exaggerated media reports.

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 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 ).

Commentators have posited that such a " hostile " approach to the issues of church and state were a substantial cause of the breakdown of democracy and the onset of civil war.

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 such as Clare Dyer ( journalist at The Guardian ) have spoken of a legal aid ' crisis ' in regard to trainees.

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

Commentators have made comparisons with the Sex Pistols case, pointing to some of the statements made by John Mortimer QC: " What sort of country are we living in if a politician comes to Nottingham and speaks here to a group of people in the city centre and, during his speech, a heckler replies " bollocks ".

Commentators on The Championship were Peter Drury, Jon Champion, Clive Tyldesley and John Rawling.

Suits ' show was replaced by the KVI show The Commentators with John Carlson and Ken Schram, formerly aired from 9: 00 a. m .-12: 00 noon.

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.

* Sorabji, R., ( 2005 ), The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD, Cornell University Press.

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 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 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.

Commentators on news stories involving stocks are often required to disclose any ownership interest in those corporations or in its competitors.

Commentators generally agree that, in the event molecular nanotechnology were developed, mankind should permit self-replication only under very controlled or " inherently safe " conditions.

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

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 praised the skilful defence of both batsmen, Hobbs in particular.

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 noted both a prophetic and a teaching character to the word of wisdom.

Commentators have both praised Milestones as a ground-breaking, inspirational work by a hero and a martyr, and reviled it as a prime example of unreasoning entitlement, self-pity, paranoia, and hatred that has been a major influence on Islamist terrorism.