Critics of evolution have long challenged proponents to explain how animals initially evolved complex organs such as eyes, hands, or feathered wings.

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 have complained that the rising toll rates have made Highway 407 more of a " luxury " rather than a bypass of existing congested roads as it was initially intended.

Critics initially awarded Black & White with high praise, averaging 90 % at both Metacritic and GameRankings, based on preliminary gameplay.

It was initially named The Stand-ins and later, The Critics.

Critics initially appeared fairly neutral, however a highly negative article on the series in a Sydney newspaper caused BP to withdraw sponsorship 16 weeks into the series run.

" Critics compared the Socrates with Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and Raphael's Stanze, and one, after ten visits to the Salon, described it as " in every sense perfect ".

Critics described his films as being " simplistic " or " overly idealistic.

Critics praised the game's Mode 7 graphics ; in 1992 Nintendo Magazine System described them as superb and the graphics have since been described as among the best ever seen on the SNES.

Critics have described this as " Saudi vandalism " and claim that in Medina and Mecca over the last 50 years 300 historic sites linked to Muhammad, his family or companions have been lost.

Critics have jokingly described three phases in the development of James's prose: " James the First, James the Second, and The Old Pretender " and observers do often group his works of fiction into three periods.

Critics have described Swans ' early recordings as " aggressive beyond words ".

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 often accused it of exploitative neocolonialism and described it as the archetypal example of the influence of a multinational corporation on the internal politics of the banana republics ( a term coined by O. Henry ).

Critics of Dick Spring, have described him as a Champagne socialist due to his choice of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel when staying in New York as Foreign Minister, instead of staying in the then Irish-owned Fitzpatrick Hotel.

Critics have described some aspects of orthomolecular medicine as food faddism or quackery and there is research suggesting that certain nutritional supplements are harmful with several specific vitamin therapies linked to increased risk of cancer, heart disease, and death.

Critics from religious parties such as Shas and Agudat Israel scorned the NRP for having been in the governing coalition with an ultra-secular party like Shinui ( which was often described as " anti-religious ") and for not doing enough to keep the Jewish character of Israel ; in one example, the party displayed little, if any, resistance or dismay, against former Internal Minister Avraham Poraz's decision not to enforce the prohibition of selling bread during Passover ( when eating bread is a prohibition of Chametz according to Orthodox Judaism ).

Critics described her admission as " extraordinary " and " unbelievable ," particularly given that the minister's responsibilities include overseeing the introduction of the Treaty.

Critics have questioned his research methods and conclusions, and his work has been described as pseudoscience.

Critics were divided: the horror and " terribilità " of the subject exercised fascination, but devotees of classicism expressed their distaste for what they described as a " pile of corpses ," whose realism they considered a far cry from the " ideal beauty " incarnated by Girodet's Pygmalion and Galatea ( which triumphed the same year ).

Critics including the Association for the Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases, have described Dor Yeshorim in the UK as a " Wedding tax ", when in fact free screening is available under the UK's national health service.

Critics at the time described Norman as having " the greatest voice since the German soprano Lotte Lehmann.

Critics of the former communist regime have described these publications co-authored by former GDR high functionaries ( e. g. Gerlach, Gerald Götting, Hans Modrow etc.

Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable.

Critics of Aspartame have expressed concerns that numerous health risks may be associated with its consumption ; however peer-reviewed comprehensive review articles and independent reviews by governmental regulatory bodies have analyzed the published research on the safety of aspartame and have described it as safe for consumption at current levels.

Critics described the sound of the album as it being " unique ".

Critics have largely praised Smith's use of the steel guitar, which have often been described as " sharp " and " prominent ".

Critics have described her singles " Goodies ," " 1, 2 Step ," " Get Up ," and " Go Girl " as club bangers.

Critics have described these games as " perfect emulations ".

Critics of the amalgamation have claimed that the election demonstrated strong voter backlash against the State Government for pressing the issue.

Films supported by the fund included James Marsh's Oscar-winning Man on Wire ; Armando Iannucci's In the Loop ( Sundance 2009 ); Jane Campion's Bright Star ; Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank ; Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin ’ ( Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals 2009 ); Sally Potter's Rage ( Berlin Competition 2009 ); Noel Clarke ’ s Adulthood ( BAFTA Rising Star ); Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley ( Cannes, Palme d ' Or ); Shane Meadows's This is England ( BAFTA, Best British Film ); Kevin Macdonald's Touching the Void ( BAFTA, Best British Film ); Andrea Arnold's Red Road ( Cannes, Jury Prize ); Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton ( Edinburgh International Film Festival, Best New Director ); Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds ( also at Berlin and Sundance 2009 ); and Duane Hopkins's Better Things ( Cannes, Critics ’ Week ).

Critics have accused the CIA of rendering suspects to other countries in order to avoid US laws mandating due process and prohibiting torture, even though many of those countries have, like the US, signed or ratified the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

Critics generally praised The Corporate Machine.

Critics of the SAP argue in favor of a weak anthropic principle ( WAP ) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter, which states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i. e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld.

Critics argue that there are some phenomena which are better captured by symbolic models, and that connectionist models are often so complex as to have little explanatory power.

Critics claim the vocabulary and style of the Pauline letters could not have been written by Paul according to available biographical information and reflect the views of the emerging Church rather than the apostle's.

Critics of the anthropocentric view point contend that the environmental movement has been taken over by so called leftist with an agenda beyond environmental protection.

Critics of experimental parapsychology hold that there are no consistent and agreed-upon standards by which " ESP powers " may be tested.

Critics of foundationalism often argue that for a belief to be justified it must be supported by other beliefs ; in Donald Davidson's phrase, " only a belief can be a reason for another belief ".

Critics have objected to GMOs on several grounds, including tampering with nature, ecological concerns, economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are often subject to intellectual property law, whether food produced from GMOs should be banned or labelled, whether such food is safe, and whether GM crops are useful to address the world's food needs.

Critics have objected to GM crops per se on several grounds, including ecological concerns, and economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are subject to intellectual property law.

Critics of the East German state have claimed that the state's commitment to communism was a hollow and cynical tool Machiavellian in nature, but this assertion has been challenged by studies that have found that the East German leadership was genuinely committed to the advance of scientific knowledge, economic development, and social progress.

Critics point to the apparent lack of commitment by foreign manufactures to any one country site or to the creation of permanent infrastructure and employment.

Critics of hypertext claim that it inhibits the old, linear, reader experience by creating several different tracks to read on, and that this in turn contributes to a postmodernist fragmentation of worlds.

Critics of role playing games have also have tied Kult to a 16-year-old Swedish boy who committed suicide by shotgun in November 1996.

In 1978, “ Forever Changes ” was ranked as the 16th greatest rock album of all time in “ Rock Critics ’ Choice: The Top 200 Albums ,” a book compiled by Paul Gambaccini.

Critics of the government charge that the government indicted Milken's brother Lowell in order to put pressure on Milken to settle, a tactic condemned as unethical by some legal scholars.

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 doubted that any of the annotations in the Bible can be reliably attributed to de Vere and not the book's other owners prior to its acquisition by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1925, as well as challenging the strictness of Stritmatter's standards for a Biblical allusion in Shakespeare's works and arguing that there is no statistical significance to the overlap.

Critics sometimes oppose OBE because of the burden it imposes on instructors and educational institutions more broadly, a burden that they regard as unjustified by any evidence showing that OBE actually improves learning outcomes.

Critics of this traditional view have observed that the types can be quite strongly stereotyped by professions ( although neither Myers nor Keirsey engaged in such stereotyping in their type descriptions ), and thus may arise more from the need to categorize people for purposes of guiding their career choice.

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 argue that the absolute majority obtained by the winner of runoff voting is an artificial one.

Critics of cultural feminism hold that cultural feminist ideas on sexuality, exemplified by the feminist anti-pornography movement, severely polarized feminism, leading to the " Feminist Sex Wars " of the 1980s.

* Critics of sedevacantism argue that this also means that the theory advanced by the seventeenth-century theologian and Doctor of the Church Robert Bellarmine that a pope who fell into heresy would automatically forfeit his office and could be formally deposed has been overruled by Church authority by Benedict XIV in " De Synodo Dioecesano " ( 10, 1, 5 ) and by the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Can.