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 Gurdjieff gives no value to most of the elements that comprise the life of an average man.

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 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 have asserted that people from poor countries ( the Third World ) have been relatively accepting and supportive of globalization while the strongest opposition to globalization has come from wealthy " First World " activists, unions and NGOs.

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 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 argue that the Charter presents the history of German people as starting from the expulsions, while ignoring events like Holocaust: professor Micha Brumlik pointed out that one third of signatories were former devoted Nazis and many actively helped in realisation of Hitler's goals ; Ralph Giordano wrote in Hamburger Abendblatt " the Charter doesn't contain a word about Hitler, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

* " Professor Behe admitted in " Reply to My Critics " that there was a defect in his view of irreducible complexity because, while it purports to be a challenge to natural selection, it does not actually address " the task facing natural selection.

Critics applauded Spacey's daring for taking on the management of a theatre, but noted that while his acting was impressive, his skills and judgment as a producer / manager had yet to develop.

Although it remains a controversial film, it has been praised by various film historians and critics, and, while not typically considered a horror film, Salò was named the 65th scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006 and is the subject of an article in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural ( 1986 ).

Critics, while praising her screen persona, have been less receptive to her films.

Critics were concerned about Rowland's not being a native to the area, despite her time there while attending Wells College from 1958 to 1962.

Critics have pointed out that a consistent phonemically based system would be impractical: for example, phoneme distribution differs between British English and American English ; furthermore, while English Received Pronunciation features about 20 vowels, some second language varieties of English have 10 or even fewer.

Critics of hacktivism fear that the lack of a clear agenda makes it a politically immature gesture, while those given to conspiracy theory hope to see in hacktivism an attempt to precipitate a crisis situation online.

" 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.

Critics highlighted various aspects of Rip the Jackers originality, both in terms of beats and lyrics ; Stoupe had employed a large number of samples from often obscure compositions, while Canibus himself undertook a variety of topics from various perspectives.

Critics saw the characters Marko and Blacky as " Kusturica's idealization of Serbs trapped into desperate acts by history and others ' evil while the cowardly characters in the film were Croats and Bosnians, who chose betrayal and collaboration.

There are two streams of thought: Critics believe bicameralism makes meaningful political reforms more difficult to achieve and increases the risk of gridlock ( particularly in cases where both chambers have similar powers ), while proponents argue the merits of the " checks and balances " provided by the bicameral model, which they believe help prevent the passage into law of ill-considered legislation.

Critics and opponents of integralism argue that the movement can be associated with fascism ( especially in Latin America ), although there exist deep points of disagreement: integralism stresses trade unionism and localism while fascism defends a centralist state ; the traditionalist and Catholic foundation of integralist ideas against the often secular and anti-clerical, and modernist philosophical basis of fascism.

Critics maintain that while it marks a great leap forward so far as the evidence from DNA-DNA hybridisation goes, it pays insufficient attention to other forms of evidence, both molecular and on a larger scale.

Critics have varied in their interpretation of the first two lines ; one calls them a " perfunctory gesture ... swallowed up by the poem's powerfully dark picture ", while another sees in them " a stand against a world of broken faith ".

Critics have questioned the unity of the poem, noting that the sea of the opening stanza does not appear in the final stanza, while the " darkling plain " of the final line is not apparent in the opening.

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 point out that the model's implications are political as well as developmental and that while the terminology of the theory is self-consciously inclusive, the practical implications of the model can be seen as socially elitist and authoritarian.

Critics opine that he completely failed to gauge the thoughts and feelings of the masses – his introduction of Hindi and the Madras Scheme of Elementary Education have both been extensively criticised while his pacifist stance during the Quit India Movement and his " C. R. Formula " angered the majority of his colleagues in the Indian National Congress.

Critics differed in their opinions of the two editions: Robert Graves and George Bernard Shaw preferred the 1922 text ( although, from a legal standpoint, they appreciated the removal of certain passages that could have been considered libelous, or at least indiscreet ), while E. M. Forster preferred the 1926 version.

Critics often attack microcredit while referring to it indiscriminately as either ' microcredit ' or ' microfinance '.