Critics have also argued that, as the Austrian business cycle theory points to the actions of fractional-reserve banks and central banks to explain the business cycles, it fails to explain the severity of business cycles before the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913.

Critics argued that Whorf's ideas were untestable and poorly formulated and that they were based on badly analyzed or misunderstood data.

Critics have argued that the term " hate speech " is a modern example of Newspeak, used to silence critics of social policies that have been poorly implemented in a rush to appear politically correct.

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 have argued that this would impede nuclear disarmament and possibly stimulate a nuclear arms race.

" Critics of modernism argued that the attributes of perfection and minimalism themselves were subjective, and pointed out anachronisms in modern thought and questioned the benefits of its philosophy.

Critics, including practitioners in the physical sciences and social activists, have argued that such definition and quantification is impossibly difficult, and that such measurements are often misused, such as with psychometric personality tests used in employment procedures:

Critics argued that it was a result of pressure from gay activists, and demanded a referendum among voting members of the Association.

Critics have argued that if the test subjects are unable to count for some other reason ( perhaps because they are nomadic hunter / gatherers with nothing to count and hence no need to practise doing so ) then one should not expect their language to have words for such numbers.

Critics and traditionalists have argued that attempts to make soul food healthier also make it less tasty, and even less culturally / ethnically authentic ( i. e., " less Black ").

Critics since the 18th century have argued that slavery tends to retard technological advancement, since the focus is on increasing the number of slaves doing simple tasks rather than upgrading the efficiency of labour.

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 have argued that the US state of Utah is a theocracy.

Critics argued that Stein was killed because she was Jewish by birth, rather than for her later Christian faith, and that, in the words of Daniel Polish, it seemed to " carry the tacit message encouraging conversionary activities " because " official discussion of the beatification seemed to make a point of conjoining Stein's Catholic faith with her death with ' fellow Jews ' in Auschwitz ".

Critics further argued that it could trigger a new arms race, this time to develop countermeasures for SDI.

Critics argued that the system was open to abuse as most NDPBs had their members directly appointed by government ministers without an election or consultation with the people.

Critics of Derrida have argued that he minimizes the antisemitic character of de Man's writing.

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 of the British mixed economy, including Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek, argued that what is called a mixed economy is a move toward socialism and increasing the influence of the state.

Critics argued the SEC did not take adequate steps to regulate and monitor this activity.

Critics of the policy of economic liberalization pursued during the Menem Presidency argued that Argentina's economic woes were caused by neoliberalism, which had been actively promoted by the U. S. government and the IMF under the Washington Consensus.

Critics have argued that the trial was extremely unfair:

Critics of cognitive linguistics have argued that most of the evidence from the cognitive view comes from the research in pragmatics and semantics on research into metaphor and preposition choice.

Critics have argued that the convention and APGC77 Art.

Critics of United States foreign policy such as Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, and anti-globalist pranksters The Yes Men are widely accepted inside the movement.

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 contended that the inflation which would follow the introduction of such a policy would harm workers, whose wages would not rise as fast as prices would, and the operation of Gresham's law would drive gold from circulation, effectively placing the United States on a silver standard.

Critics of this viewpoint became louder as Japan slid into a sustained deflationary spiral and the collapse of the savings-and-loan banking system in the United States pointed to larger structural changes in the economy.

Critics such as Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky argue that the United States has sought, or has found itself forced into, a quasi-imperialist role by its status as the world's sole superpower.

Critics claim the tax cuts worsened the deficits in the budget of the United States government.

Critics of the policies were suspicious of the increasing willingness of the United States to use military force unilaterally.

The movie was also well received in the United States and won three awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and two Academy Award nominations.

Critics have also questioned the validity of the war's stated objectives, such as a supposed link between the country's Ba ' athist government and the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, and its possession of weapons of mass destruction " certified " by the Niger uranium forgeries.

Critics of oil imperialism theories suggest that because the United States is the third largest oil producer, and that it has historically been the leading oil producer in the world, the United States would be unlikely to predicate its foreign policy on the acquisition of oil with such an undue focus.

* 1997, the film won " Best Foreign Language Film " awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics, following its release in the United States.

Critics further contend that the controversial policies are fundamentally anti-democratic in that it is not for the United States or any other country or coalition of countries to determine what trade laws Iraqis must live by, and that such rules can only be legitimate if passed initially by an elected Iraqi government free of foreign occupation and domination.

Critics note that Johnson, as a principal officer of the Discovery Institute, often cites an overall plan to put the United States on a course toward the theocracy envisioned in the Wedge Strategy, and that the Discovery Institute as a matter of policy intentionally obfuscates its agenda.

He then played the President of the United States in the new David Mamet political satire, November, directed by Joe Mantello, followed by the critically acclaimed revival of Waiting for Godot as Estragon ( Outer Critics Circle nomination ) with Bill Irwin as Vladimir.

Critics complained that he mismanaged the failed impeachment effort in December of the same year against Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Six National Book Critics Circle Awards recognize " best books " published in the United States during the preceding year in six categories: fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism, and poetry.

Critics from organized labor have argued since the late 1970s < ref name =" Machinist_1977 ">< nowiki > http :// www. library. gsu. edu / dlib / iam / getBrandedPDF. asp? issue_id = 1883 </ nowiki > " Examining the opposition's tangled web — the who's who in the right wing " The Machinist, published by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO / CLC, October 1977 ; accessed February 4, 2008 </ ref > that while the National Right to Work Committee purports to engage in grass-roots lobbying on behalf of the " little guy ", the National Right to Work Committee was formed by a group of southern businessmen with the express purpose of fighting unions, and that they " added a few workers for the purpose of public relations ".< ref name =" UAW_FAQ ">< nowiki > http :// www. uawlocal3520. org / right % 20to % 20workfliner. pdf </ nowiki > " Questions and Answers about the National Right to Work Committee and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation ," United Auto Workers, Accessed February 3, 2008 .</ ref >

Critics sometimes refer to LIEO as the Washington Consensus, which implies that this system works mostly in the favor of the United States at the expense of smaller countries.

" Critics of H-1B use for outsourcing have also noted that more H-1B visas are granted to companies headquartered in India than companies headquartered in the United States.

Critics have argued against this trend, stating that there is no dearth of qualified workers in the United States.

Fischer-Dieskau was ranked the second greatest singer of the century ( after Jussi Björling ) by Classic CD ( United Kingdom ) " Top Singers of the Century " Critics ' Poll ( June 1999 ).

Critics of the sport argue that Vale Tudo shows should all adopt the much safer mixed martial arts rules that have developed and gained athletic sanctioning in countries such as the United States and Japan.

Critics also suggest that fundamentalist religious prohibitions against divorce make it more difficult for religious men or women to leave an abusive marriage: A 1985 survey of Protestant clergy in the United States by Jim M Alsdurf found that 21 % of them agreed that " no amount of abuse would justify a woman's leaving her husband ever ", and 26 % agreed with the statement that " a wife should submit to her husband and trust that God would honour her action by either stopping the abuse or giving her the strength to endure it.