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 found the film ’ s plot and characterization unconvincing, but praised its action sequences.

Critics such as Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky argue that the United States has sought, or has found itself forced into, a quasi-imperialist role by its status as the world's sole superpower.

Critics have argued about the meaning of the Induction for many years, and according to Oliver, " it has become orthodoxy to claim to find in the Induction the same ' theme ' as is to be found in both the Bianca and the Katherine-Petruchio plots of the main play, and to take it for granted that identity of theme is a merit and ' justifies ' the introduction of Sly.

Critics have found it unremarkable, but the Symphony in C of the same year has been warmly praised by later commentators who have made favourable comparisons with Mozart and Schubert.

Critics of this ruling found this to be a case of judicial nitpicking and that the Court had in essence allowed the previously-banned practice of concentrating a racial group into a single district.

Critics of the museum include Hochschild, who wrote an article for the New York Review of Books claiming he found " distortions and evasions " in the exhibition and stated " The exhibit deals with this question in a wall panel misleadingly headed ' Genocide in the Congo?

Critics found it so elliptical that it was almost impossible to make out any semblance of a plot, something very rare in a wuxia film.

Critics found her performance weak.

Critics approved of the writing but found the plot unoriginal and some of the language distracting.

" Critics found the story to be " sodden with hopelessness all the way though ," but " excellently told.

Critics found the book to be overly melodramatic.

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 have accused MEMRI of producing inaccurate, unreliable translations with undue emphasis and selectivity in translating and disseminating the most extreme views from Arabic and Persian media, which portray the Arab and Muslim world in a negative light, while ignoring moderate views that are often found in the same media outlets.

Critics have accused MEMRI of often producing inaccurate translations with undue emphasis and selectivity and disseminating the most extreme views from Arabic and Persian media while ignoring moderate views that are often found in the same media outlets.

Critics such as Roger Ebert, however, found the film's message to be deeper than Scott's Gladiator.

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 have found them derivative, particularly those in which she tried to imitate Synge's Irish dialect, and Barnes may have agreed, since in later years she dismissed them as mere juvenilia.

Critics also suggest that fundamentalist religious prohibitions against divorce make it more difficult for religious men or women to leave an abusive marriage: A 1985 survey of Protestant clergy in the United States by Jim M Alsdurf found that 21 % of them agreed that " no amount of abuse would justify a woman's leaving her husband ever ", and 26 % agreed with the statement that " a wife should submit to her husband and trust that God would honour her action by either stopping the abuse or giving her the strength to endure it.

Critics have pointed out that no continuous sequence of Périgordian occupation has yet been found and that the tradition requires it to have co-existed separately from the Aurignacian industry rather than being differing industries that existed before and afterwards.

Critics of the Commission claimed that Maclean's and Steyn had been found guilty without a hearing.

Critics also attacked the car's excessive weight and its semi-independent rear torsion beam suspension / twist-beam rear suspension, ( like a previous generation Volkswagen Golf ), which was seen as a step backwards from the acclaimed fully independent rear suspension used in the Bravo / Brava, and which resulted in handling many found uninspired and uninvolving.

Critics found little redeeming value in the game.

Critics found the new day / night system and the addition of an in-game bank praiseworthy.

Critics of this larger definition point that the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville metropolitan area, frequently used by those living in the City of Charleston, borrowed the Lowcountry moniker in an attempt to give a name to their region of the state ; however, supporters point that many of the same geographic qualities and features found in the smaller area are also found throughout the three metropolitan counties as well.

Critics enjoyed the game's unusual depth, replayability, colony management, and research system but found fault with the monotonous nature of the endgame and several major bugs, such as the ability to force an attacking fleet to retreat even if it is attacked by a single fighter, since the enemy fleet will return to restock missiles before making another attack.

" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere.

Critics often seek to understand Alcaeus in comparison with Sappho:

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 of Daniel, at least since the third century works of Porphyry view the Book of Daniel as a pseudepigraph dated around 165 BCE that concerns itself primarily with the Maccabean era and the reign of the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes.

Critics do, however, acknowledge that the author of Daniel was familiar with the history of Near Eastern imperial power from the sixth to the second centuries.

Critics claimed the popular media were wrong to report monarch butterflies were threatened because this experiment did not duplicate natural conditions under which monarch caterpillars may come in contact with corn pollen.

Critics of planned economies argue that planners cannot detect consumer preferences, shortages, and surpluses with sufficient accuracy and therefore cannot efficiently co-ordinate production ( in a market economy, a free price system is intended to serve this purpose ).

Critics point out that spindle activity is positively correlated with intelligence.

Critics of these versions, such as Taoism scholar Eugene Eoyang, claim that translators like Stephen Mitchell produce readings of the Tao Te Ching that deviate from the text and are incompatible with the history of Chinese thought.

Critics point out a number of problems with this theory.

Critics have also stated that Misskelley's " confessions " were in many respects inconsistent with themselves and the particulars of the crime scene and murder victims, including ( for example ) an " admission " that Misskelley " watched Damien rape one of the boys.

" 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 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 have referred to Enter the Dragon as " a low-rent James Bond thriller ", a " remake of Doctor No " with elements of Fu Manchu.

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 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.

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 have raised concerns about the methodology used to collect data, including that data in the reports could not have been obtained without collaborations with child molesters.

Critics in Congress worried whether these " foreigners ", unacquainted with democracy, could or should become citizens.

Critics argue that average students learning in isolation perform significantly lower than those learning with collaboration and mediation.

Critics are unhappy with having all students meet a minimum standard, instead of most students meeting a somewhat higher standard.

Critics have also stated that proponents of psychological egoism often confuse the satisfaction of their own desires with the satisfaction of their own self-regarding desires.

Critics sometimes accuse particular judges of applying the doctrine selectively, invoking it to support precedent that the judge supported anyway, but ignoring it in order to change precedent with which the judge disagreed.

Critics say that analogous problems with meta-analysis have been documented in medicine, where it has been shown different investigators performing meta-analyses of the same set of studies have reached contradictory conclusions.

Critics viewed the policy as an attempt to usher in Western products in deals there with the old elites.