The book will be published next month, but birders and ornithologists who have seen it are already hailing it and its author, David Allen Sibley.
Some have been positive, trumpeting its promise and hailing it as a demonstration of democratic science.
Officially, Pakistan's government welcomed Mr. Obama's strategy, with its hefty infusions of American money, hailing it as a "positive change".
However, Stig Abell, managing editor of the Sun, welcomed the verdict, hailing it as "a vindication for the Sun and its journalists - it is a victory for all journalism".
Small wonder palaeontologists are hailing it as such a breakthrough, a find of enormous import.
A couple of judges pronounce themselves converts, hailing it "more filling" or "better quality".
Every time I go whether it is sunny, wet, hailing, it lifts me, changes my mood.
After the deal was finalized, many prominent environmentalists joined the politicians in hailing it as a turning point.
Then write a tribute to the moon, hailing it as an important protector for Earth from meteorites.
Three decades on, the same publication was hailing it as one of the greatest albums ever made.
It opened to much critical acclaim last Friday, with certain swooning critics hailing it the best British film ever.
