Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Some modern historians theorize that Nero's decision to kill Agrippina was prompted by her plotting to set Gaius Rubellius Plautus ( Nero's maternal second cousin ) or Britannicus ( Claudius ' biological son ) on the throne.

Some historians speculate that it was his conservative powerbase's disapproval of his foreign, non-Orthodox bride, more so than her appearance, that caused Alexei to spurn Charlotte.

Some historians believe that Acts borrows phraseology and plot elements from Euripides ' play The Bacchae.

Some Swedish historians believe the name derives from the cripple secondary god Balder of Nordic mythology.

Some historians have questioned the reliability of some of Bede's accounts.

Herald-Traveler Corp. operated for years under temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission stemming from controversy over luncheon meetings the newspaper's chief executive had with an FCC commissioner during the original licensing process ( Some Boston broadcast historians accuse the Boston Globe of being covertly behind the proceeding.

Some battles are named for the convenience of military historians so that periods of combat can be neatly distinguished from one another.

Some historians were prepared to go even further, claiming that blitzkrieg was not merely an operational doctrine of the German armed forces but a strategic concept on which the leadership of the Third Reich based its strategic and economic planning.

Some historians have cited the U. S. intervention and bombing campaign ( spanning 1965 – 1973 ) as a significant factor leading to increased support of the Khmer Rouge among the Cambodian peasantry.

Some historians have argued that there is an element of psychological projection in conspiracism.

" Some historians have put forward the idea that more recently the United States has become the home of conspiracy theories because so many high-level prominent conspiracies have been undertaken and uncovered since the 1960s.

Some historians may place Aztlán in Nayarit or the Caribbean while other historians entirely disagree, and make a distinction between legend and the contemporary socio-political ideology.

Some music historians argue that Chicanos of Los Angeles in the late 1970s might have independently co-founded punk rock along with the already-acknowledged founders from British-European sources when introduced to the US in major cities.

The canonization of Saint Udalric, Bishop of Augsburg, by Pope John XV in 999 is the first undoubted example of a papal canonization of a saint from outside Rome ( Some historians maintain that the first such canonization was that of Saint Swibert by Pope Leo III in 804 ).

Some historians, particularly Josephus, claim that Claudius was directed in his actions by the Judaean King Herod Agrippa.

Some historians think Kling's absence was significant enough to prevent the Cubs from also winning a third straight title in 1909, as they finished 6 games out of first place.

Some modern historians think that Caligula suffered from hyperthyroidism.

Some historians who have examined the life of Cotton Mather after Chadwick Hansen ’ s book also seem to yearn for a positive view of Cotton Mather.

Some modern historians deem his piratical reputation unjust, as there is evidence that Kidd acted only as a privateer.

Some of his pamphlets were purported to be written by Scots, misleading even reputable historians into quoting them as evidence of Scottish opinion of the time.

Some historians state that Diocletian, like some emperors before him, adopted Maximian as his filius Augusti, his " Augustan son ", upon his appointment to the throne.

Some historians believe that the story by Petrus Olai refers to a source from the first half of the 15th century, making this the oldest reference to the falling flag.

Some states also define assault as an attempt to menace ( or actual menacing ) by placing another person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury.

Some authors also define an alkali as a base that dissolves in water.

Some philosophers deny that the concept of " being " has any meaning at all, since we only define an object's existence by its relation to other objects, and actions it undertakes.

Some mathematicians, especially in set theory, do not consider the sets and to be part of the relation, and therefore define a binary relation as being a subset of x, that is, just the graph.

Some toques were created so capoeiristas could communicate with each other within the roda without having to say a word, like Cavalaria, while others were created to define a style, like Regional de Bimba.

Some resource materials define classic cinquains as solely iambic, but that is not necessarily so.

Some political scientists define a civil war as having more than 1000 casualties, while others further specify that at least 100 must come from each side.

Some health insurance policies also define a medical condition as any illness, injury, or disease except for psychiatric illnesses.

Some sources define egalitarianism as the point of view that equality reflects the natural state of humanity.

Some economy of data is possible where a frame need only rewrite a portion of the pixels of the display, because the Image Descriptor can define a smaller rectangle to be rescanned instead of the whole image.

Remark: Some authors, especially in physics and matrix algebra, prefer to define the inner product and the sesquilinear form with linearity in the second argument rather than the first.

Some closely knit language families, and many branches within larger families, take the form of dialect continua, in which there are no clear-cut borders that make it possible to unequivocally identify, define, or count individual languages within the family.

Some commentators define Modernism as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment with the aid of practical experimentation, scientific knowledge, or technology.

Some textbooks define an organic compound as one containing one or more C-H bonds ; others include C-C bonds in the definition.

Some national constitutions in effect define their governments ' " core businesses " as being the provision of such things as justice, tranquility, defense, and general welfare.

Some mainstream scholars of Islam define sufism as simply the name for the inner or esoteric dimension of Islam.

" Some structural engineers define a highrise as any vertical construction for which wind is a more significant load factor than earthquake or weight.

Some authorities attempt to define an astronomical winter, often offset, which is based solely on the position of the Earth in its orbit around the sun.

Some people define narcotics as substances that bind at opioid receptors ( cellular membrane proteins activated by substances like heroin or morphine ) while others refer to any illicit substance as a narcotic.

Some simpler Metafont fonts, such as the calligraphic mathematics fonts in the Computer Modern family, use a single pen stroke with a relatively large pen to define each visual " stroke " of the glyphs.

Some textbooks may define the negative binomial distribution slightly differently than it is done here.

Some authors define a modified Arrhenius equation, that makes explicit the temperature dependence of the pre-exponential factor.

Some would prefer to define actions as requiring bodily movement ( see behaviorism ).

Some zoologists define " domestication " as human control over breeding, which can be detected in ancient skeletal samples by changes in the size and variability of ancient horse populations.