1.   A successful Lebanon operation, commentators agreed, would go a long way to reverse that image.

2.   By the end of the week, Israeli press commentators agreed that the whole military operation seemed to be a huge failure.

3.   Even network commentators agree that the show this year is Martina Hingis and Venus Williams and Monica Seles.

4.   For some observers, the passing years have made Wilde the quintessential martyr to Victorian prudery and hypocrisy, but not all gay commentators agree.

5.   Israeli commentators all agreed that Peres, for all the pressure on him to take drastic action, would try hard not to fatally undermine Arafat.

6.   Many commentators agree that Shostakovich is indeed present in this quartet, perhaps more than in any other except the Eighth, which bears his explicit musical signature throughout.

7.   Most French commentators agree that Pasqua has come out the loser.

8.   Most commentators agreed.

9.   Several prominent founding-era commentators agreed on this basic principle.

10.   The rating of the governing party has always dropped after a terror attack, and political commentators agreed that the effect would not last.