In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

295 ), the Canada Supreme Court opined that the 1906 Lord's Day Act that required most places to be closed on Sunday did not have a legitimate secular purpose, and was an unconstitutional attempt to establish a religious-based closing law in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Liang Shuming opined that Chiang Kai-shek's " greatest contribution was to make the CCP successful.

Biographer Stephen Ambrose opined that this was the best speech of Eisenhower's presidency.

) The theologically conservative future president of Yale, Timothy Dwight, opined that " the style was crude and vulgar, and the sentiments were coarser than the style.

He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.

The attorney Roy Cohn, an associate of Hoover during the 1950s investigations of Communists and known to be a closeted homosexual, opined that Hoover was too frightened of his own sexuality to have anything approaching a normal sexual or romantic relationship.

However, Salon's David Futrelle opined that such content was very much a part of Mads past:

" Activist Bill Wilson opined that the expanded presidency was " the greatest threat ever to individual freedom and democratic rule.

" He also opined that the later Civil War was inflicted on the nation as punishment for its aggression in Mexico.

Many critics opined at that time that Gretzky was " too small, too wiry, and too slow to be a force in the NHL ".

The Akron Journal and Republican, no friend to Bryan, opined that " never probably has a national convention been swayed or influenced by a single speech as was the national Democratic convention ".

Additionally, Murray Rothbard, the founder of anarcho-capitalism, has opined that Thoreau was one of the " great intellectual heroes " of his movement.

On the question of race relations, some have opined that the Union was so pre-occupied with uniting the white races ( the British and the Boers ) into a single race that it enabled the gulf between whites and blacks to enlarge.

Nikitenko, opined that, " The main failing of the reign of Nicholas Pavlovich was that it was all a mistake.

Mason P dissented and opined that there was no principled reason to award punitive damages in respect of common law torts but not analogous equitable wrongs.

" Of Spamalot, Anderson opined that " Python was formed in reaction to exactly the kind of lazy comedy represented by Spamalot – what Michael Palin once described as the ' easy, catch-phrase reaction ' the members had all been forced to pander to in their previous writing jobs ".

He opined that Lerner and Loewe's score for The Day Before Spring the previous year was better than theirs for Brigadoon, explaining that, " If my first emotion last night was admiration rather than sheer enjoyment, it was because the proceedings seemed to me more marked by taste and style than by emotional warmth in book and music, but there is no denying that the authors have matured as theatrical craftsmen ".

Accompanying this, Philip opined that Nastrond was also " half identified " with the creature Grendel, the antagonist in the Old English poem Beowulf. Philip 1981. p. 36.

Describing French Conservatives of the 1870s, the writer opined that " their mistake was, not in appealing to the country, but in appealing to it in behalf of a Monarchy which had yet to be defined, instead of a Republic which existed ; for in the latter case they would have had the whole of that silent majority with them.

Robin Lane Fox opined that Theopompus was " A man who wrote slander, not history ".

Holmes felt that the founders ' expansion of free speech was " an experiment, as all life is an experiment " and he opined that a twenty year sentence against the defendants was an unconstitutional punishment for their beliefs.

Olmert opined, " As a Jew, I was ashamed at the scenes of Jews opening fire at innocent Arabs in Hebron.

Despite his accomplishments and accolades, some college recruiting analysts opined that he was too small and too slow to succeed in major college football when he signed to play for the University of Florida.

" George Long considered the commentary " worth reading ", but then opined, " But how many will read it?

" Tillman opined that " The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they will learn their place again.

This deftness of touch was not unrecognized in his own day ; one anonymous obituary writer opined: " Such, however, was the effect of his genius that when he was the happiest man, he will be least remembered ; so closely did he copy nature that his works will be mistaken ".

Bangladesh's batsmen secured a draw in the second Test by batting out the final five session after coach Dav Whatmore had opined that " Zimbabwe will win, unless our batsmen do something special ".

Nevertheless, an unidentified contemporary, commenting on Monteverdi's silence, opined that the maestro might yet produce an opera for Venice: " God willing, one of these nights he too will step onto the stage.

" The trade journal Box Office noted that: " Fans of the horror film will be glad to know that Vincent Price is back to add another portrait to his gallery of arch-fiends ... bathed in the most stomach-churning gore imaginable ..." Variety opined that " Dwyer gives evidence of acting talent, but she and all principals are hampered by Michael Reeves's mediocre script and ordinary direction.

An editorial in the Washington Post in 1902 gave the opinion that the smoking jacket was " synonymous with comfort ", while a Pennsylvania newspaper opined in 1908 that it would be " putting it mildly to say that a new House Coat or Smoking Jacket will give any man reason for elation ".

( When Lincoln offered the assignment in Kentucky to Palmer, then without a command, the general claimed the president directed him firmly: “ Go to Kentucky, keep your temper, do as you please, and I will sustain you .”) Palmer in fact needed little convincing, believing “ that all that was left of slavery Kentucky was its mischiefs ” and, as he related, he was “ determined to ‘ drive the last nail in the coffin ’ of the ‘ institution ’ even if it cost me the command of the department .” ( Indeed, to his wife he opined in 1865 that “ if had been asked five or ten years ago what honor I would ask as the highest which could be confered upon me I would have said let me destroy slavery in Kentucky .”) On March 20, at one of Louisville ’ s Methodist churches, he announced as much.

The champion, Spencer Gore, opined that " Lawn tennis will never rank among our great games.

She opined that many people, once " the shock had faded ", thought " the United States had it coming ", and that " orld bullies, even if their heart is in the right place, will in the end pay the price " ( the so-called " Roosting Chickens argument ").

Gould Davis called for " the matriarchal counterrevolution that is the only hope for the survival of the human race " and opined that " spiritual force ", " ental and spiritual gifts ", and " xtrasensory perception " will be more important than " physical force ", " gifts of a physical nature ", and " sensory perception ", respectively, so that " woman will again predominate " and that " the next civilization will ... revolve woman "", as it had in the past that she asserted.

" A disappointment he was, perhaps, but his cricket will be recalled when those of lesser gifts are forgotten ", opined the writer EW Swanton.

Justice Vitug made no bones about what he thought of that reasoning, " The admission of ' Grace ' only votes will not in any way violate the law ," he opined.

" Historian Peter Padfield opined that " Himmler ... appeared the most powerful man under Hitler.

As bin Laden opined: " he US has no mentionable role " in " the collapse of the Soviet Union ... rather the credit goes to God and the mujahidin " of Afghanistan.

Shigeru Egami, Chief Instructor of Shotokan Dojo, opined " that the majority of followers of karate in overseas countries pursue karate only for its fighting techniques ... Movies and television ... depict karate as a mysterious way of fighting capable of causing death or injury with a single blow ... the mass media present a pseudo art far from the real thing.

In the 1974 film Hearts and Minds, Westmoreland opined that " The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner ... We value life and human dignity.

On December 9, the U. S. Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to stay the Florida recount, because according to Justice Scalia: Florida Supreme Court The dissenters opined: " Counting every legally cast vote cannot constitute irreparable harm ...

Of Lord Germain it was said that " the secretary is incapable of conducting a war ", and Horace Walpole opined ( incorrectly, as it turned out ) that " we are ... very near the end of the American war.

At the time, Robert Gordon Robertson, then a member of the Cabinet Secretariat, opined that Canadians would not like the title King of Canada, as " most Canadians ... have not thought of themselves as citizens of either a republic or a monarchy.

Although the reviewer of She in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine considered it better than King Solomon's Mines, he opined, " Mr. Rider Haggard has not proved as yet that he has anything that can be called imagination at all ...

The great French player and theoretician André Danican Philidor opined of the Sicilian in 1777, " This way of opening the game ... is absolutely defensive, and very far from being the best ... but it is a very good one to try the strength of an adversary with whose skill you are unacquainted.

It opined: " Out of every class Skull and Bones takes its men ... They have obtained control of Yale.

Chicago Tribune < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Steve Johnson opined that the episode " starts strong and then goes awry [...] It's funny for a while [...] But then it takes it to a ludicrous level, selling out its own internal logic by conspiring to put Shannon and Messing into a ... catfight.

Walter Kerr opined that preserving the original score was vital to the character of a revival, stating, " the only reason for remounting vehicles that have half-vanished ... is to get beyond all that is dated into the specific textures of the scores that haven't ... there's no point for enduring banality in a book if all you're going to get in return is a random rummage through an attic that produces a perhaps bountiful but essentially characterless heap ".

" He opined that the film was delayed not because it was bad, but because its old-fashioned style is a " tough sell ... in today's marketplace.

Bradman opined that he had a " clean-hitting crisp style ... attacking, positive, and with a technique to rival most first-class batsmen ".

Fred has been opined as the second best Coronation Street character by The Guardian, and has been described by them as " the big, bald butcher who said everything twice, and boomingly, started out as a comic gargoyle and became ever sweeter: I said, became ever sweeter ... John Savident's performance made his failed love affairs moving and his death on his wedding day a calamity.

For example, The Saturday Review opined that " this is an extremely important book, a signal that the women's liberation movement is coming of age ... she writes with high passion and compassion ".

* An op-ed writer opined that " the Mexicans ... are hearing ' the giant sucking sound ' in stereo these days — from China in one ear and India in the other.

" In JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters, James Douglass opined that George de Mohrenschildt "... had been Oswald's CIA-approved shepherd in Dallas ... had probably no understanding in advance of the scapegoat role that lay ahead for his young friend.