" Critics allege that he was endorsing the practice of " necklacing " opposition activists – placing a gasoline-soaked tire around a person's neck and setting the tire ablaze – However, just earlier in the speech, and edited from the videos, he is quoted as saying " Your tool in hand, your instrument in hand, your constitution in hand!

Critics allege that the government is seeking to use the Shura Council as a liberal bulwark to prevent clerical domination of politics.

Critics of foreign companies allege, for instance, that firms such as Nike and Gap Inc. resort to child labor and sweatshops in developing nations, paying their workers wages far lower than those that prevail in developed nations ( where the products are sold ).

Critics also allege that the Church uses litigation as a cover for intimidation tactics, such as investigating the criminal records of opponents ( or lack thereof ) and subjecting them to surveillance and invasive inquiries, both to discourage further criticism and to ensure the opponent's unwillingness to fight the lawsuit.

Critics allege that localism, local news and other content at the community level, media spending and coverage of news, and diversity of ownership and views have suffered as a result of these processes of media concentration.

Critics allege there is systematic abuse of the act against protesters.

Critics of president Hosni Mubarak allege that Moussa's appointment to the Office of Secretary-General of the Arab League was motivated by Mubarak's desire to remove him from the public spotlight.

Critics allege that test makers and facilitators tend to represent a middle class, white background.

Critics of lapdancing allege that some club owners, by installing dark private booths and charging dancers steep stage fees, are covertly condoning and encouraging the sale of sexual acts between customers and dancers.

Critics allege that Penelas ' failure to intervene in the Dade County ballot controversy, including failing to provide adequate security at the Dade County Building during the Brooks Brothers riot, was a contributing factor to George W. Bush's ultimate victory in the controversial election.

Critics allege that despite the publicized intentions at its founding, NCCAM and its predecessor, the Office of Alternative Medicine, have spent more than $ 800 million on such research since 1991 but have neither succeeded in demonstrating the efficacy of a single alternative method, nor declared any alternative medicine treatment ineffective.

Critics also allege that the concordat undermined the separation of church and state.

Critics allege Ralston is using his influence as special envoy to secure large governmental weapons contracts for the corporations he has directorship over.

Critics of his broadcast, such as the civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center, allege Lou Dobbs Tonight regularly aired segments featuring, and had as on-air guests, people that the SPLC considers to be involved with white supremacist groups, without the show revealing involvement in such groups.

Critics allege that Discovery Institute is inflating his reputation by constantly referring to him as a " five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize " because Nobel Prize nominations remain confidential for fifty years.

Critics of the design – build approach claim that design – build limits the clients ’ involvements in the design and allege that contractors often make design decisions outside their area of expertise.

Critics allege that other democratic countries requirements for referendums are notably lower.

Critics allege that the voter turnout at local, regional and national elections across Italy rarely ever goes past the 80-85 % mark.

Critics allege that this is the main reason that no referendums have been able to meet the quorum since 1997, despite high voter turnout for national and regional elections held in the same years.

Critics of the Museum of the Confederacy's leadership in recent decades note that it previously owned the very land on which the new hospital construction is taking place, and allege that the Museum sold it to VCU to help finance the very museum building now purportedly threatened by the hospital's expansion on the site.

Critics allege that, in virtue of laïcité, there was no need to give official representation to a religious group, which lead to communautarisme.

Critics claim that Johnson's statements validate claims leveled by those who allege that the Discovery Institute and its allied organizations are merely stripping religious content from their anti-evolution, creationist assertions as a means of avoiding the separation of church and state mandated by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Critics allege that Qutb's Milestones helped to open up a Pandora ’ s box of takfir ( declaring a Muslim to be an infidel ) that has brought serious internal strife, in particular terrorism, to the Muslim world in recent decades.

Critics of Boswell have pointed out that many earlier doctrinal sources condemn homosexuality in ethical terms without prescribing a punishment, and that Boswell's citations reflected a general trend towards harsher penalties from the 12th century onwards.

Critics, such as psychiatrist Niall McLaren, argue that the DSM lacks validity because it has no relation to an agreed scientific model of mental disorder and therefore the decisions taken about its categories ( or even the question of categories versus dimensions ) were not scientific ones ; and that it lacks reliability partly because different diagnoses share many criteria, and what appear to be different criteria are often just rewordings of the same idea, meaning that the decision to allocate one diagnosis or another to a patient is to some extent a matter of personal prejudice.

Critics have also stated that Misskelley's " confessions " were in many respects inconsistent with themselves and the particulars of the crime scene and murder victims, including ( for example ) an " admission " that Misskelley " watched Damien rape one of the boys.

Critics argue that the Charter presents the history of German people as starting from the expulsions, while ignoring events like Holocaust: professor Micha Brumlik pointed out that one third of signatories were former devoted Nazis and many actively helped in realisation of Hitler's goals ; Ralph Giordano wrote in Hamburger Abendblatt " the Charter doesn't contain a word about Hitler, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Critics include many of the Pre-Raphaelites, and William Blake, the latter having published his vitriolic Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds ' Discourses in 1808.

Critics, including the Center of Biological Diversity and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, were concerned the jaguar was being sacrificed for the government's new border fence, which is to be built along many of the cat's typical crossings between the United States and Mexico.

Critics of Reagan's efforts questioned their purpose and argued that the program did not go far enough in addressing many social issues, including unemployment, poverty, and family dissolution ; Nancy's approach to promoting drug awareness was labeled as simplistic by liberal critics.

Critics argued that the ministry imposed too many principles and guidelines for young writers in the workshop, such as, asking them to avoid metaphors in their poetry and advising them to write about events in their everyday life.

Critics claimed that Wilson acted to solicit votes for the next general election ( which took place less than a year later ), but defenders noted that, since the minimum voting age at that time was 21, this was hardly likely to impact many of the Beatles ' fans who at that time were predominantly teenagers.

Critics of the effort claim that it creates hardship primarily for the coca growers, many of whom are poor and have no viable alternative way to make a living, causes environmental problems, that it is not effective in reducing the supply of cocaine, in part because cultivation can move to other areas, and that any social harm created by drug abuse is only made worse by the war on drugs.

Critics suggested that many of her roles were notable for her almost passive intensity in the face of tragedy and despair.

Critics perceived the show as derivative of All in the Family, then television's most-popular primetime program, although many admitted the writing was top notch and the sexual connotations gave it an extra bit of spice.

Critics have argued about the meaning of the Induction for many years, and according to Oliver, " it has become orthodoxy to claim to find in the Induction the same ' theme ' as is to be found in both the Bianca and the Katherine-Petruchio plots of the main play, and to take it for granted that identity of theme is a merit and ' justifies ' the introduction of Sly.

Critics have argued that few of Garbo's twenty-four Hollywood films are artistically exceptional, and that many are simply bad.

Critics were quick to debate whether a reformed Heat team would have chemistry issues, were too old ( O ' Neal, Mourning and Payton were all in their mid-thirties ), or had too many underachievers ( Walker had a reputation of miserable shot selection ; Williams, one of turnover-prone playmaking ).

" Critics have seen a precedent for the book's plot presentation in Laurence Sterne's famously digressive The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, with Thomas Keymer stating that " Tristram Shandy was a natural touchstone for James Joyce as he explained his attempt " to build many planes of narrative with a single esthetic purpose " in Finnegans Wake ".

Critics of the revised liturgy ( many of whom are traditionalist Catholics ) claim that its specifically Catholic content is markedly deficient compared with that of the liturgy as it existed prior to the revision.

Along with the many awards bestowed upon the trilogy, particularly its final installment The Return of the King ( winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture ), Astin received many award nominations for his own performance in Return of the King, taking home the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor and awards from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society, the Seattle Film Critics, the Utah Film Critics Association, and the Phoenix Film Critics Society.