Critics such as Susan Blackmore and Ray Hyman say that the results are inconclusive and consistently indistinguishable from null results.

Critics noted Galeon's tricky plugin installation.

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.

Critics have noted that theodicies and defenses are often addressed to the logical problem of evil.

Critics claimed that Wilson acted to solicit votes for the next general election ( which took place less than a year later ), but defenders noted that, since the minimum voting age at that time was 21, this was hardly likely to impact many of the Beatles ' fans who at that time were predominantly teenagers.

Critics of the KMT's program for a centralized national culture regard it as institutionalized ethnic discrimination, and point to the loss of several indigenous languages and a perpetuation of shame for being an aborigine < ref name =" shame "> noted that Taiwan's first democratically elected President, Li Teng-Hui, said in a famous interview: "...

Critics noted his propensity for recycling material, including incorporating elements of his journalism into later novels.

Critics also noted the similarity to Unisys ' attempts to assert rights over the GIF image compression standard via LZW patent enforcement.

Critics noted that Mulroney had originally professed opposition to free trade during the 1983 leadership campaign.

Critics and film historians have often noted how the film is divided into three equal thirds or acts.

Critics of The Wild Bunch noted the theme of the end of the outlaw gunfighter era.

Critics have noted that The Shrinking Lover essentially is a sex metaphor.

Critics, such as Andrew Davies in the Times Educational Supplement and Armando Iannucci, have noted that the show had high expectations of audience.

Critics and fans alike have also noted that Alis is one of the first female heroines in video games, alongside Samus Aran of Metroid and Chun Li of Street Fighter, who didn't journey for love or treasure but for personal vengeance.

Critics have noted a strong Transcendentalist influence on the poem.

" 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 noted that most of the scripts did not measure up to the first series.

Critics have noted of the band: " Fishbone was one of the most distinctive and eclectic alternative rock bands of the late ' 80s.

Critics noted that Shorter seemed more suited to this album than he had to its predecessor, contributing more ; and the album was praised for its energetic compositions.

Critics of Friedman's position on the Iraq War have noted his recurrent assertion that " the next six months " will prove critical in determining the outcome of the conflict.

Critics have noted that although Xander frequently exhibits a struggle of masculinity, his storylines often focus on his romantic conquests.

Critics also noted the fact that, despite orders to the contrary, English Catholics attended her private chapel.

Critics have noted the careful diction in the opening description, the overall, spell-binding rhythm and cadence of the poem and its dramatic character.

Critics initially described Audioslave as an amalgamation of Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden, but by the band's second album, Out of Exile, noted that they had established a separate identity.

Critics noted that the characters acted differently from the way they would in later seasons.

" Davis won a " Best Actress " award from the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award.

Critics argue Napoleon's true legacy must reflect the loss of status for France and needless deaths brought by his rule: historian Victor Davis Hanson writes, " After all, the military record is unquestioned — 17 years of wars, perhaps six million Europeans dead, France bankrupt, her overseas colonies lost.

Her tenth novel, The Accidental Tourist, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and was made into a 1988 movie starring William Hurt and Geena Davis.

For this role, Davis won the New York Film Critics Circle award and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

* Critics ' Award — Sir Colin Davis and London Symphony Orchestra — Berlioz, Les Troyens

He has shared screen time with Brenda Fricker and Miranda Richardson in Swann ( for which McCann received a Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Genie nomination ), Nicolas Cage in Trapped in Paradise, Kevin Bacon in The Air Up There, Sam Waterston in A House Divided, Peter Weller and Judy Davis in Naked Lunch ( which garnered a National Film Critics Society award ), Brooke Shields and the late Al Waxman in What Makes a Family, and Kurt Russell in Miracle.

Critics contended the firings had been done to allow friends of the Clintons to take over the travel business and that the involvement of the FBI was unwarranted.

Critics had cautioned that the policy change could lead to a drop in enrollment of minority students at CUNY's four-year institutions.

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.

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

Critics pointed out that a precedent had been set in the naming of einsteinium during Albert Einstein's life and a survey indicated that chemists were not concerned with the fact that Seaborg was still alive.

Critics of the Seventeenth Amendment claim that by altering the way senators are elected, the states lost any representation they had in the federal government and that this led to the gradual " slide into ignominy " of state legislatures, as well as an overextension of federal power and the rise of special interest groups to fill the power vacuum previously occupied by state legislatures.

By 1959 he had earned two Pulitzer Prizes, three New York Drama Critics ' Circle Awards, three Donaldson Awards, and a Tony Award.

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

Critics argued that the system was open to abuse as most NDPBs had their members directly appointed by government ministers without an election or consultation with the people.

Critics of this change argue that most of the power of EOF was a side effect of its Objective-C roots, and that EOF lost the beauty or simplicity it once had.

Critics pointed out that her apology came at a time when a group of New England Veterans had launched a campaign to disrupt a film project she was working on, leading to the charge that her apology was motivated at least partially by self-interest.

Critics of the policy of economic liberalization pursued during the Menem Presidency argued that Argentina's economic woes were caused by neoliberalism, which had been actively promoted by the U. S. government and the IMF under the Washington Consensus.

Critics were quick to debate whether a reformed Heat team would have chemistry issues, were too old ( O ' Neal, Mourning and Payton were all in their mid-thirties ), or had too many underachievers ( Walker had a reputation of miserable shot selection ; Williams, one of turnover-prone playmaking ).

Critics attacked the movie as they had its predecessor.

Critics of the LDS church have claimed that Cabrera's work had a strong influence on Joseph Smith, Jr. and Oliver Cowdery, founders of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Critics expressed concern that he was not living up to his promise and began to doubt he was able to recreate the quality of writing that Patterns had shown.

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 questioned why he chose to comment on a rumour that few outside media and political circles had heard.