Critics generally agree that although authoritarianism in Malaysia preceded the administration of Mahathir bin Mohamad, it was he who " carried the process forward substantially "

Critics charge that " rogue state " merely means any state that is generally hostile to the U. S., or even one that opposes the U. S. without necessarily posing a wider threat.

Critics generally applauded the film and the performances of the entire cast, which included actors Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan.

Critics generally approved of the changes, but Berle's ratings continued to fall and Buick pulled out after two seasons.

Critics have generally received Ender's Game well.

Critics generally praised the overall gameplay.

" Critics also noted its generally asexual treatment of homosexuality: Janet Maslin commented in the New York Times that the film is not one " to associate gayness with actual sex ," while TV Guide quipped that it " finally gets discussion about gay people out of the bedroom and into the record store.

Sweet and Lowdown received generally positive reviews ; it currently holds a 78 % ' fresh ' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus " Critics praise Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown for its charming, light-hearted comedy and quality acting.

) Critics have generally viewed the scene in which Kempe performs as rather flat ( Collier, 97 ) and it is assumed that the scene provided a framework within which Kempe could improvise.

Critics such as Delvin Cree ( Turtle Mountain Chippewa ), a reporter with the The Tribal Independent, wrote in an Opinion piece on Indianz. com that the tribe's practices of high-interest, short-term lending are generally classified as predatory lending.

Critics generally liked the film, which, notes Nora Sayre, " had a flavoring of courage.

Critics generally contend that claimed successes occur in conditions which were going to lead to rain anyway.

Critics, though far from uniformly negative about Selleck's performance, generally compared it unfavorably to that of Jason Robards, Jr., who won awards in the 1960s for playing the character on the stage and in a movie version.

Critics generally praised F-Zero X for its fast gameplay, abundance of courses and vehicles, track design, and maintaining a high framerate.

Critics concerned with corporate hypocrisy and insincerity generally suggest that better governmental and international regulation and enforcement, rather than voluntary measures, are necessary to ensure that companies behave in a socially responsible manner.

Critics and readers are generally unclear what rhetorical effect Chaucer may have intended by ending his cycle in this unlikely, extra-generic fashion.

Critics generally received the record with a lukewarm response, recognizing its accomplishments while noting its lack of consistency and innovation.

Critics have generally given praise to the series for the way supernatural elements are portrayed as well as for the artwork used for the illustrations.

Critics observed that Mackenzie's operatic and choral music was generally ill-served by his librettists: " Much of his best work ... is neglected, partly because unlike his contemporaries, Parry and Stanford, Mackenzie went for the texts of his larger vocal works to such librettists as Joseph Bennett and Hueffer, instead of to the vital things of English poetry and literature.

Critics of the Performa line, including some Mac users, argued that it was generally underpowered relative to higher-end Mac models.

" Critics were generally receptive to the album's more accessible sound.

Critics did generally feel that the acting, musical score and cinematography were all well done, although some felt that DiCaprio played the character too closely to his role in the film The Basketball Diaries.

On one occasion, the Modern Parents and the Critics appeared in the same strip, each pair mistakenly attending the event intended for the other, though the two strips are generally slightly different in tone and style.

" Critics generally agreed that the roll and cover system worked well and that they did not feel overpowered, though some were somewhat frustrated about the fact that the cover mode required a specific spot to be activated.

Critics liked the film.

Critics liked the albums diversity and braveness to try new things, but some of the old fans and hard rock fans thought that the album was weird and that Hanoi Rocks had changed too much since the 80s.

" Game Critics stated that " The game isn't perfect — I would have liked even more tracks to race on as well as a few more racers.

Critics who liked the film tended to focus on the sense of newness it brought to the saturated horror genre.

Critics liked the way the movie indigenised The Godfather and introduced a political angle to it.

Critics Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, of the web site Spirituality & Practice, liked the film, and wrote, " The Big Easy says a lot about the peculiar problems and exhilarations which are the daily fare of law enforcement officers ... The sparks fly in their volatile love affair which is kept heated throughout by director Tim McBride.

Critics of Dabru Emet hold that it is false to claim that the Nazis would move on to exterminate Christians after they finished with the Jews.

Indicative of the reader-response school of theory, Terence Hawkes writes that the fundamental close reading technique is based on the assumption that “ the subject and the object of study — the reader and the text — are stable and independent forms, rather than products of the unconscious process of signification ," an assumption which he identifies as the " ideology of liberal humanism ,” which is attributed to the New Critics who are “ accused of attempting to disguise the interests at work in their critical processes .” For Hawkes, ideally, a critic ought to be considered to “ the finished work by his reading of it, and to remain simply an inert consumer of a ‘ ready-made ’ product .”

Critics, such as Noam Chomsky, have argued that the Roosevelt Corollary was merely a more explicit imperialist threat, building on the Monroe Doctrine, and indicating that the U. S. would intervene not only in defense of South American states in the face of European imperialism, but would also use its muscle to obtain concessions and privileges for American corporations.

Critics blame the questionable funding of an expensive building on I. B. F. I.

The New Critics regarded the language and poetic diction as most important, but the Chicago School considered such things merely the building material of poetry.

Critics pointed out that founding director Brown's " Pre-Architectural Program " had specified that " the form of the building should be so complete in its beauty that additions would spoil that form ," and that Kahn had achieved that goal extraordinarily well.

Critics pointed to his decisions to sign off on an ambitious brain science program without consulting the faculty, to sell $ 80 million in bonds for the construction of a biomedical sciences building, and to cut the university's extremely popular Charleston String Quartet, which many saw as part of Gee's effort to lead the school away from its close but unprofitable relationship with the arts.

Critics accused Bizimungu of corruption, alleging that he had blocked parliament's attempts to censure corrupt ministers, refused to pay compensation to evicted residents on one of his building site, and dodged Rwandan taxes by registering two of his trucks in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Critics praised improved graphics, the grander scale of city building, the improved method of teaching and guiding Creatures, and the creation of armies but criticised the somewhat limited actions of the Creature, the poor path-finding and enemy AI, the lack of packaged multiplayer and sandbox modes, and the feeling of being less of a god game, and more of a glorified city-management simulator, considering the lack of " divine " opponents, which were prominent features of the first game.

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 accused Seawell of being preoccupied with building up the DCPA.

Critics of the Bush Administration have said Bush was intentionally building a case for war with Iraq without regard to factual evidence.

Critics claimed that the city-county government bailed Wilkinson out of a bad investment by purchasing the property from him and by giving him a government-subsidized, low interest rate on his $ 12 million mortgage for the apartment building.

Critics contend that these evangelicals support Israel in order to expedite the building of the Third Temple in Jerusalem, which Dispensationalists see as a requirement for the return of Jesus Christ.

Critics point out, that, among other problems common to censorship systems, it could easily later be re-purposed, perhaps quietly or too quickly to stop, for whatever desired object, that may have nothing whatsoever to do with the reasons backers claimed to have built / to be building it for.

Critics of the expenditure, at a time when Ireland was in financial difficulties, nicknamed the building the Chaz Mahal.

Critics of the design have suggested the building has the air of a municipal, public, civil building.