" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere.

Critics claimed the popular media were wrong to report monarch butterflies were threatened because this experiment did not duplicate natural conditions under which monarch caterpillars may come in contact with corn pollen.

Critics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Karl von Baer and Wilhelm His, did not believe that living embryos reproduce the evolutionary process and produced embryo drawings of their own which emphasized the differences in early embryological development.

Critics have charged Bopp with neglecting the study of the native Sanskrit grammars, but in those early days of Sanskrit studies the great libraries of Europe did not hold the requisite materials ; if they had, those materials would have demanded his full attention for years, while such grammars as those of Charles Wilkins and Henry Thomas Colebrooke, from which Bopp derived his grammatical knowledge, had all used native grammars as a basis.

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.

While he did not win the Oscar, he was awarded Best Director by the Cannes Film Festival, BAFTA, and the New York Film Critics Circle.

Critics suggest that Shakespeare did similar work with these sources in Othello, Julius Caesar and Coriolanus.

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

Critics note that while the court said that the ABC was the first electronic digital computer, it did not define the term computer.

The similarity did not go unnoticed: James Russell Lowell in his A Fable for Critics wrote the verse, " Here comes Poe with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge / Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

Scott did not turn down the New York Film Critics Award for his performance ( of which his then wife Colleen Dewhurst said, " George thinks this is the only film award worth having ").

Critics also felt that Banks did not successfully establish a distance between his own voice and that of the protagonist.

Critics claim electoral fraud, with voter suppression and violence, was used when the political machine did not work and elections were just a ritual to simulate the appearance of a democracy.

Critics, however, interpreted the sentence as stating that the case did not set precedent in any way and could not be used to justify any future court decision, and some suggested that this was evidence the majority realized its holding was untenable.

Critics felt that the Foundation was too quick to renovate some historic structures and did not follow necessary review procedures, including that required by the State Environmental Quality Review Act ( SEQRA ).

Critics of Calvin's doctrines of predestination frequently argued that Calvin's doctrines did not successfully avoid describing God as " the author of evil ".

Critics of polygamy in the early LDS Church have documented several cases where deception and coercion were used to induce marriage, for example citing the case of Joseph Smith who warned some potential spouses of eternal damnation if they did not consent to be his wife.

Critics also claimed that WCG did not proclaim salvation by grace through faith alone, but rather required works as part of salvation.

Critics underlined the weakness of this right of initiative, which did not ultimately entail any vote or referendum.

Critics see the conflict as a " quagmire "-- an endless waste of American blood and treasure in a conflict that did not concern US interests.

Critics noted that most of the scripts did not measure up to the first series.

It premiered at the Second Stage Theatre in New York and, though not a success, did prepare him for his work on his best-known play, M. Butterfly, for which he won a Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award, the John Gassner Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

Critics of the wall point out that the technology did not exist when the mound was created to fix a retaining wall at this angle.

Critics of the approach of adding capacity have compared it to " fighting obesity by letting out your belt " ( inducing demand that did not exist before ).

Critics were lukewarm towards it, and it did not receive significant radio play.

Critics contended the firings had been done to allow friends of the Clintons to take over the travel business and that the involvement of the FBI was unwarranted.

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 of the three-prong test contend that it operates as a " quota " in that it places undue emphasis on the first prong ( known as the " proportionality " prong ), which fails to take into account any differences in the genders ' respective levels of interest in participating in athletics ( in spite of the third prong, which focuses on any differences in the genders ' respective levels of interest in participation ).

Critics praised the film not only for its satire of the rollercoaster lifestyles of rock stars but also for its take on the non-fiction film genre.

Critics Ira Robbins and Regina Joskow described this line-up as a " brilliant, strong ensemble ... the band doesn't play punk ( more a jazzy, thrashy, swing take on the many moods of Jimi Hendrix ), but what they do together has the strengths of both.

Critics of polygamy in the early LDS Church claim that church leaders sometimes used polygamy to take advantage of young girls for immoral purposes.

Critics are wary that this casual form of speech is being used so much that it will slowly take over common grammar ; however, such a change has yet to be seen.

Critics of the system argue that this " agreed election " called into question the need for a supposedly non-political office where only politicians can nominate a candidate, with few powers, that is detached from the people, and to which elections take place only every 14 years.

Critics of " Renaissance II " noted that the majority of spending would take place in the corridor services and not add new trains or improved scheduling to Atlantic and Western Canada.

Critics take issue on several points.

Critics also pointed out the council itself would not be allowed to take any action against the parties as evidence the court action demonstrated a misuse of funds.

Critics suggest that men's rights groups view boys as a homogeneous group sharing common experiences of schooling and that they do not take sufficient account in their analysis of how responses to educational approaches may differ by age, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and class.

Critics, however, claimed that Clark could have continued to govern, and that the early election was called to take advantage of Labour's strong position in the polls.

Critics of VORP take issue with where the formula's arbitrary " replacement level " is set.

Although there are undoubtedly similarities between Leavis's approach to criticism and that of the New Critics ( most particularly in that both take the work of art itself as the primary focus of critical discussion ), Leavis is ultimately distinguishable from them, since he never adopted ( and was explicitly hostile to ) a theory of the poem as a self-contained and self-sufficient aesthetic and formal artefact, isolated from the society, culture and tradition from which it emerged.

Critics counter that Esperanto could simply take over from national languages and continue the destruction of linguistic diversity that is already taking place.

Critics of the 35-hour working week have argued that it has failed to serve its purpose because an increase in recruitment has not occurred ; in their view, the reluctance of firms to take on new workers has instead simply increased per-hour production quotas.

Critics also take issue with the lack of formal standardization.

Critics of the article objected to the fact that her argument implied the impossibility of genuine ' feminine ' enjoyment of the classical Hollywood cinema, and to the fact that her argument did not seem to take into account spectatorships that were not organised along the normative lines of gender.

Critics of Herzberg's theory argue that the two-factor result is observed because it is natural for people to take credit for satisfaction and to blame dissatisfaction on external factors.

Critics maintain that this is no longer really a free choice: if it is known that " If she were offered a dollar, she would take it ," apart from actually offering that person a dollar, then she is not free to take or not take that dollar.