Critics claim that the terms " instantiation " and " copy " are not further defined and that participation and inherence are similarly mysterious and unenlightening.

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.

Critics of the ' debt-for-nature ' schemes, such as National Center for Public Policy Research, which distributes a wide variety of materials consistently justifying corporate freedom and environmental deregulation, aver that plans deprive developing nations of the extractable raw resources that are currently essential to further economic development.

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

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 of polygamy in the early LDS Church claim that church leaders established the practice of polygamy in order to further their immoral desires for sexual gratification with multiple sexual partners.

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 further contend that food energy excess, rather than the consumption of specific novel foods, such as grains and dairy products, underlies the diseases of affluence.

Critics observed a general slowing in Hobbs ' scoring throughout the season, and he scored more often in singles than in his earlier years, when he tried to hit the ball further.

Critics have discovered manuscripts, texts and other traces of the legendary heroes, and further explored the continued existence of a Latin literary tradition ( c. f.

Critics have further argued that it promotes the belief in a single, transcendent deity ; while this is a belief that is followed by the main Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it is foreign to the beliefs of many other religions.

Richards and his student William Empson, later developed further by the New Critics of the mid-twentieth century.

Critics have further attested that Lytton's belief in Social Darwinism helped to ease his conscience towards the plight of the starving and dying Indians ; 60, 000 friends of the Raj banqueted whilst tons of rice and grain awaited export to Britain and America.

Critics argued that the existing community's character would be changed as existing residents were forced to move, and, further, that public transportation and public safety infrastructure would be unable to accommodate the projected 40, 000 new residents.

Critics cited further as evidence that the incident was politically motivated the statement by the assistant superintendent that the trip to Arizona would not be " in agreement with the school system's values and beliefs.

Critics predict that the halls will be under-utilized, and further worsened by its relatively remote location compared to the old World Trade Centre, or the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre ( now known as the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre ) which had opened only a few years earlier in 1995.

Critics have suggested that Dead's vibrant tradition of melding folk music and the blues with psychedelic rock in " loose-knit expressions " and extended jamming " further pushed outside the confines of mainstream pop.

Critics argued that the desire of the researchers to observe the carers harming the children exposed the children to further abuse, that the betrayal of doctor-patient trust necessarily involved in the surveillance could cause harm to the subjects, and that " a diagnosis should lead to treatment, not punishment ".

Critics, including some scientists, and those whose criminal activities have been thwarted by brain fingerprinting have advocated further delay in applying the technique ( Fox 2006b, Abdollah 2003, Rosenfeld 2005, KTVO-TV 1999 ).

Critics argue further that the problem with both ethnophilosophy and philosophical sagacity is that there is surely an important distinction between philosophy and the history of ideas, although other philosophers consider the two topics to be remarkably similar.

The film further won two Lumiere Awards for Best Director and Best Film, was nominated for two Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design, and won the Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing.

Critics have further hailed it as one of the best graphic novels in recent years, claiming that the book will be remembered for its superb execution a decade after publication.

Critics of GPOs charge that, as long as GPOs receive fees from the vendors they are charged with policing, the industry has anti-competitive contracting potential that should be subjected to further scrutiny and / or regulation.

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 had charged he was lukewarm, at best, on the goal of desegregation of public schools.

Critics of the theory charged that the Indochinese wars were largely indigenous or nationalist in nature ( such as the Vietnamese driving out the French ), and that no such monolithic force as " world communism " existed.

Critics later charged that the speech provided Joseph Stalin and Kim Il-sung with reason to believe the US would not intervene if they invaded the South.

Critics charged that Banks used the dramatic events of 9 / 11, and other features of the early 21st century, more as wallpaper than in any meaningful or resonant way.

" Critics charged that the dictionary was reluctant to defend standard English, for example entirely eliminating the labels " colloquial ", " correct ", " incorrect ", " proper ", " improper ", " erroneous ", " humorous ", " jocular ", " poetic ", and " contemptuous ", among others.

Critics charged that the party was an effort to recruit people for Transcendental Meditation, and that it resembled " the political arm of an international corporation " more than a " home-grown political creation ".

" Critics have charged that this policy orientation reflects a sectarian, conservative Catholic position that endangers the religious freedom of others, as well as faith / state separation

Critics charged that Reagan was insensitive to the plight of the poor, and that anyway the economic troubles of the 1970s were beyond any president's ability to control or reverse.

Critics of his plan charged that the tax cuts would reduce revenues, leading to large federal deficits, which would lead in turn to higher interest rates, stifling any economic benefits.

Critics have long charged that Faubus ' fight in Little Rock against the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U. S. Supreme Court that separate schools were inherently unequal was politically motivated.

Critics later charged that Novak had done so to avoid discussing recent developments in the Valerie Plame affair on-air.

Critics, including pathologist and former JAMA editor George Lundberg, have charged that the reduction in autopsies is negatively affecting the care delivered in hospitals, because when mistakes result in death, they are often not investigated and lessons therefore remain unlearned.

" Critics have also charged that the school's belief in human rationality contributed to bubbles such as the recent financial crisis, and that the school's trust in markets to self-regulate has offered no aid to the economy in the wake of the crisis.

Critics of the Civil War military tribunals charged that they had become a political weapon, for which the accused had no legal recourse to the regularly constituted courts, and no recourse whatsoever except through an appeal to the President.

Critics of the Court charged that the judiciary had usurped legislative authority and had embodied a particular economic theory, laissez faire, into its decisions.

Critics charged the Institute was associating itself with the tobacco industry's many attempts to discredit authentic scientific work.

Critics have charged that there is an oversupply of manufactured goods, driving down prices and profits while increasing the level of bad debt in the banking system.

Critics charged that the Apotex contributions may have been an attempt to sidestep Canada's laws on corporate donations.

Critics also charged the newspaper with subtly incorporating antisemitic and white racialist undertones in its articles, and with carrying advertisements in the classified section for openly neo-Nazi groups and books.

Critics have charged that the entire process has been compromised by chemical company interference.

Critics also charged that the authorities did not organize the siege properly, including failing to keep the scene secure from entry by civilians, while the emergency services were not prepared during the 52 hours of the crisis.

Critics charged that he was an unresponsive leader who was not appropriately concerned with the city's large crime problem, neglected the maintenance of streets, and did little to curb the exodus of Jackson's upper-and middle-class residents to places outside the city limits.

Critics charged that Johnson said crime was only a " perception ," although his perception complaints were, in fact, about the " perception of hopelessness " that he argued that crime sensationalism by the media promoted in the city.