Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

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

Critics of the court decision also note that there is, at a component level, nothing in common between the two machines.

Critics note that some of those systems are like oracles: they make a pronouncement of truth, yet give no explanation of that truth.

Critics note that Tobin was likely doing this to preserve his political life in his home province.

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.

Critics took note of the inferior sounding laugh track permeating Hanna-Barbera's Saturday morning fare.

Critics took note of Hines's comedic charm, and he later appeared in such movies as The Cotton Club, White Nights, Running Scared, Tap, and Waiting to Exhale.

Critics have noted a huge error in the " code " Drosnin claimed to have found, they note Drosnin used the Biblical verse Deuteronomy 4: 42.

Critics of retention also note that retention has hard financial costs for school systems: requiring a student to repeat a grade is essentially to add one student for a year to the school system, assuming that the student does not drop out.

Critics of equality of opportunity note that while it is relatively easier to deal with unfairness for people with different races or genders, it is much harder to deal with social class since " one can never entirely extract people from their ancestry and upbringing.

Critics note that an incomplete version of facsimile 2 is found among the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, part of which are in the handwriting of Joseph Smith.

Critics of electronic voting, including security analyst Bruce Schneier, note that " computer security experts are unanimous on what to do ( some voting experts disagree, but it is the computer security experts who need to be listened to ; the problems here are with the computer, not with the fact that the computer is being used in a voting application )... DRE machines must have a voter-verifiable paper audit trails ... Software used on DRE machines must be open to public scrutiny " to ensure the accuracy of the voting system.

Critics of the move note that Martinez had experienced diminished effectiveness in the late innings of games in which he had thrown more than 100 pitches.

Critics of this claim note that the report actually proved that the " unknowns " were distinctly different from the " knowns " at a very high statistical significance level.

Critics also sensed partisan politics when Walsh's office leaked a note suggesting President Bush had lied about his connections to the affair.

Critics say the taste is not better, merely different, or note that the long-term health risks of all or certain artificial sweeteners is unclear.

Critics did take note of this when reviewing the book.

Critics of gestural theory note that it is difficult to name serious reasons why the initial pitch-based vocal communication ( which is present in primates ) would be abandoned in favour of the much less effective non-vocal, gestural communication.

Critics note that while this theory may explain a certain kind of infant-directed ' protolanguage ' – known today as ' motherese ' – it does little to solve the really difficult problem, which is the emergence among adults of syntactical speech.

Critics of the CHST, CHT and CST note that the programs have allowed the federal government to interfere in areas of provincial jurisdiction by giving Ottawa a powerful hammer ( the threat of withdrawing the transfers to any province that displeases the federal government ).

Critics note that in many United Nations conferences, goals are ever set but never met, and that commitments on paper are rarely translated into actions.

Critics of such hard line measures note that in spite of such policies, such influence nonetheless does occur.

Critics also note that the designated " View Park ," a roadside park on the south side of U. S. Route 90 about 9 miles ( 14 km ) east of Marfa, is located at the site of Marfa Army Airfield, where tens of thousands of personnel were stationed between 1942 and 1947, training American and Allied pilots.

Critics say editorial anonymity gives the publication an " omniscient tone and pedantry " and hides the youth and inexperience of those writing articles.

Critics argue that the Electoral College is inherently undemocratic and gives swing states disproportionate influence in electing the President and Vice President.

Critics claim the Act gives police extended powers to deter or prevent peaceful protest.

Critics argue that this demonstrated lack of predictive power renders the theory's other predictions unreliable, while others cite this as only compounding the warnings the theory gives.

Critics noted, " Gold always gives excellent value in musicals: she ’ s talented, funny and energetic "; and " The highlight of the show for me has to be Christopher Biggins and Louise Gold as Baron and Baroness Bomburst.

Critics acknowledge that the diet gives quick results but say that weight loss on the plan results simply from the reduced caloric intake, and is mostly water weight that is quickly regained ; in addition, critics argue that the diet is so extreme as to be unhealthy.

Critics claim that this is not because Apple is afraid of illegal copies but because it gives them an advantage in their market position as a leader in both electronic music sales ( iTunes ) and in music players ( iPod ), reinforcing each other due to the FairPlay DRM.

Andrew Pyle gives a lucid account of infinite divisibility in the first few pages of his Atomism and its Critics.

Critics claimed the inclusion of this material gives a platform to unapologetic neo-Nazis despite the film's strongly anti-Nazi theme.

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 23 % rating with an average score of 4. 2 out of 10, Top Critics Gave a lower rating of a 15 % average score of a 3. 9 / 10.

The New York Film Critics ' Circle also gives special stand-alone awards to individuals and / or organizations that they believe have made significant contributions to the art of cinema that includes other film critics, film restorers, historians and service organizations.

Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.

Critics also question how any two given properties are determined to be properties of the same object if there is no substance in which they both inhere.

Critics, such as psychiatrist Niall McLaren, argue that the DSM lacks validity because it has no relation to an agreed scientific model of mental disorder and therefore the decisions taken about its categories ( or even the question of categories versus dimensions ) were not scientific ones ; and that it lacks reliability partly because different diagnoses share many criteria, and what appear to be different criteria are often just rewordings of the same idea, meaning that the decision to allocate one diagnosis or another to a patient is to some extent a matter of personal prejudice.

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

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 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 of the effort claim that it creates hardship primarily for the coca growers, many of whom are poor and have no viable alternative way to make a living, causes environmental problems, that it is not effective in reducing the supply of cocaine, in part because cultivation can move to other areas, and that any social harm created by drug abuse is only made worse by the war on drugs.

Critics of the bombing argue that Dresden — sometimes referred to as " Florence on the Elbe " ( Elbflorenz )— was a cultural landmark of little or no military significance, and that the attacks were indiscriminate area bombing and not proportionate to the commensurate military gains.

Critics have also complained that the constitution makes no mention of the right to an adequate standard of living.

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 argue that there is no treasure and that the apparent pit is a natural phenomenon, likely a sinkhole and natural caverns.

Critics of salsa romántica, especially in the late 80s and early 90s, called it a commercialized, diluted form of Latin pop, in which formulaic, sentimental love ballads were simply put to Afro-Cuban rhythms — leaving no room for classic salsa's brilliant musical improvisation, or for classic salsa lyrics that tell stories of daily life or provide social and political commentary.

Critics point out that the Catts had been suspected of no crime, however the UK's mass surveillance infrastructure allowed them to be targeted due to their association.

Critics respond, however, that a cultural change effected by a struggle within the Ashkenazi-East European community, with younger people voluntarily discarding their ancestral culture and formulating a new one, is not parallel to the subsequent exporting and imposing of this new culture on others, who had no part in formulating it.

Critics suggested the effort as a way for this group to inflate their membership rosters, and more exactly, by taking dues from people with no interest in the groups ' politics.

Critics argue that they could cause environmental and security problems as leakage or theft of the radioactive material could pass unnoticed for years, particularly as the locations of some of these lighthouses are no longer known due to poor record keeping.

Critics also argue that there is no way to verify much of the information gathered.

Critics also claim that the opinions of the people have no actual weight in decision-making.

Critics assailed the law as an attempt to circumvent the sovereignty of other states and become a venue for partisan show trials of propaganda value but no legal consequence.

Critics contend, however, that this radicalism has largely receded since the 1970s and that Libé is no longer a truly left-wing newspaper.

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

Critics say that the lolicon genre contributes to actual sexual abuse of children, while others say that there is no evidence for this claim.