Some commentators, such as right-wing radio talk-show host Michael Savage and left-wing activist Ralph Nader, who have both used the terms, have opined on how it is often hard to tell the parties apart, leading to the term's popularisation.

Opposition parties challenged Harper's statement, but Abacus CEO David Coletto opined that the Prime Minister's statement was in line with his party's supporters and with public sentiment.

Micropaleontologist Schopf, who described several important terrestrial bacterial assemblages, examined ALH 84001 and opined that the structures are too small to be Earthly bacteria and don't look especially like lifeforms to him.

The coup-de-grace is variously opined to be Stealth technology especially as embodied in the cruise missile, which would have required an unattainable number of installations to secure the Soviet border ; the Gulf War, which proved stealth and easily overcame Soviet-doctrine Iraqi forces ; or Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a clear attempt to obsolesce the Soviet nuclear arsenal, creating an immense expense for the Soviets to maintain parity.

Composers who have written settings of the Stabat Mater include Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Antonio Vivaldi, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ; of the latter's setting, the German poet Tieck opined: " I had to turn away to hide my tears, especially at the place, ' Vidit suum dulcem natum '".

Don Shewey in Rolling Stone opined: " Larson's rough-edged, down-home tone is definitely appealing — especially when she backs up the likes of Neil Young and Steve Goodman High and Outside album featured a duet with Larson: " The One That Got Away " — but as a soloist, her limited vocal resources are " severely taxed " — " It's symptomatic of Nicolette Larson's problems as a performer that the finest singing on In the Nick of Time is by Michael McDonald.

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.

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 ".

Furthermore, some Islamic scholars have opined that Jesus has died ( Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's assertion ) or expressed their own confusion on this matter, though the majority orthodox position of most Muslims with regard to this issue has not changed.

A Democratic senator from Rhode Island opined that Crittenden could win support from a sizable number of Democrats in addition to the support of his own party.

Glenn Finch opined that " Barkley was unbeatable in his own state, and it is probable that no other candidate could have defeated Cooper.

Justice Douglas did reach that conclusion, but then he went much further and opined on what airspace landowners do and do not own.

Critics later opined that the author hadn't been prepared for such a task and what little material he produced was " insufferably dull and filled not with his own impressions but with fragments of other works concerning the lands he visited " ( Skabichevsky ).

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.

" The question of The Byrds ' continued existence was also echoed in a contemporary review by Bud Scoppa in the March 1972 edition of Rock magazine, in which he opined " The Byrds recognized their failure on Byrdmaniax, but placed the blame on the lavish production job rather than their own disunity.

The party advocated independence for Indonesia, and opposed imperialism and capitalism because it opined that both systems worsened the life of Indonesian people.

" Constitutional scholar John Hart Ely opined that it was not really a philosophy of law or a theory of interpretation, but a coded label for judicial decisions popular with a particular political party.

Historian Robert Powell opined that Wickliffe's break from party loyalty may explain his lack of committee appointments in his early years in the House.

Journalist John Ed Pearce opined that the loss marked the demise of the Chandler wing of the Democratic Party in Kentucky, although Chandler himself remained somewhat influential.

" Elected officials and observers opined that the results of a 2009 special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District — in which a Republican candidate who had voted for same-sex marriage withdrew her candidacy in the face of a challenge from a Conservative Party candidate — had an impact on the marriage vote in the Senate.

When President Bush's warrantless surveillance program was revealed, Wittmann dismissed concerns about its impact on civil liberties as " fevered imaginations of graying baby boomers and twenty-something bloggers " and opined that " The Democratic Party is increasingly under the influence of modern day McGovernites ".

It opined that the Law Commission had been unduly cautious by limiting the scope to murder and that " the exceptions should [...] extend to other grave offences punishable with life and / or long terms of imprisonment as Parliament might specify.

" Capital is a tough nut to crack, opined Ignacy Daszyński, one of the best known socialist " people's tribunes " around the turn of the 20th century, but anyhow he had not read it.

Dr. Sawyer ( a homeopath, and friend of the Harding family ), opined that Harding had succumbed to a stroke, but doctors there disagreed.

" 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 ".

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.

However, Spiner has opined that he is too old to continue playing the part, as Data embodies a " childlike innocence " that Spiner can no longer credibly exhibit, as his appearance had already begun to lose that quality by the time he filmed his last Trek films.

Following a three-hour hearing on August 5, the Commission opined that the findings of Dr. de Chenar's initial autopsy conducted on August 2 had been in error ; that the glioblastoma tumor conceivably could have had an influence on his actions, and that a vascular malformation located around the tumor may have been congenital, suggesting that the tumor had been dormant and suddenly appeared due to the necrosis that surrounded it.

Firth opined that Lilburne had gained a great reputation for courage and seems to have been a good officer, but his military career was unlucky.

Handoca opined that Eliade changed his stance after discovering that the Legionaries had turned violent, and argued that there was no evidence of Eliade's actual affiliation with the Iron Guard as a political movement.

" Everything he wrote, he had to use … And if you insist in using everything you end up with substandard albums ," disgruntled Box opined.

While the majority of news reports echoed these official declarations, there were others which opined that Western critics should " suspend judgment for a time ," and despite its generally critical stance on South Africa's policies, Time magazine wrote that Bophuthatswana had " considerable economic potential " with an expected $ 30 million a year coming from mining revenues.

At the time of their first broadcast, they attracted some controversy: in The Sunday Times ( 15 April 1990 ) Paul Donovan opined that Lewis-Smith's hoaxes were " repugnant " and claimed that Lewis-Smith's company broke a " written undertaking that permission to broadcast would be obtained from all the people who had received the hoax calls " and that subsequently the BBC made illegal broadcasts in breach of their producers ' guidelines.

The Edinburgh scholar L. P. Elwell-Sutton, in a 1975 article critical of what he called " pseudo-Sufis " like Gurdjieff and Shah, opined that Graves had been trying to " upgrade " Shah's " rather undistinguished lineage ", and that the reference to Mohammed's senior male line of descent was a " rather unfortunate gaffe ", as Mohammed's sons had all died in infancy.

The 9 / 11 Commission Report opined that had Ressam been asked about Moussaoui, he would have broken that logjam.

Even then, however, the Clinton legal team opined that its actions were consistent with the War Powers Resolution because Congress had approved a bill funding the operation, which they argued constituted implicit authorization.

The latter dismissed this version of events as " such bullshit, such a fucking lie ," stating that McAlpine had described the September 11, 2001 attacks as " the best thing to have ever happened to America " and opined that child victims of terrorist attacks in Israel " fucking deserve to die.

He opined that public opinion had the power to ensure that rulers would rule for the greatest happiness of the greater number.

The new state of Andhra Pradesh was carved out from the Madras Presidency on 1 November 1956 and several leaders opined that in order to create a separate identity for the Telugu film industry, it had to be based out of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh.

He opined that it was not surprising that the Chinese had suffered such losses if an Army officer was directing a Naval fleet.

The TV critic from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram opined that these failures and the weaknesses he saw in Boston Public were a sign that Kelley had lost the Midas touch.