Commentators on the Internet often predicted the year 2007 would be the end point for "bad capacitors".

Commentators predicted the Greens would hold the balance of power and decide who forms government.

Several commentators predicted that the Nationals would face destruction at this election.

In the end, however, the day was nothing like the disaster that several forecasters and commentators had predicted.

Commentators have predicted that there will not be any new government programs that serve a need other than war.

When it was time for the committee members to question him, the meeting came nowhere near the brawl some commentators had predicted.

This quick revival was generally quicker than many commentators had predicted only five months earlier.

Until the trial began last month, almost every Turkish commentator and politician predicted that the death sentence would be carried out.

The commentators nevertheless predicted that it would fail because of the bad diamond split.

There was immediate debate over the plan, with many politicians and commentators predicting that camps for refugees would never actually be built.