Critics, including the Center of Biological Diversity and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, were concerned the jaguar was being sacrificed for the government's new border fence, which is to be built along many of the cat's typical crossings between the United States and Mexico.

Critics contended that the inflation which would follow the introduction of such a policy would harm workers, whose wages would not rise as fast as prices would, and the operation of Gresham's law would drive gold from circulation, effectively placing the United States on a silver standard.

Critics of this viewpoint became louder as Japan slid into a sustained deflationary spiral and the collapse of the savings-and-loan banking system in the United States pointed to larger structural changes in the economy.

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 claim the tax cuts worsened the deficits in the budget of the United States government.

Critics of the policies were suspicious of the increasing willingness of the United States to use military force unilaterally.

The movie was also well received in the United States and won three awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and two Academy Award nominations.

Critics have also questioned the validity of the war's stated objectives, such as a supposed link between the country's Ba ' athist government and the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, and its possession of weapons of mass destruction " certified " by the Niger uranium forgeries.

Critics of oil imperialism theories suggest that because the United States is the third largest oil producer, and that it has historically been the leading oil producer in the world, the United States would be unlikely to predicate its foreign policy on the acquisition of oil with such an undue focus.

* 1997, the film won " Best Foreign Language Film " awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics, following its release in the United States.

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 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.

He then played the President of the United States in the new David Mamet political satire, November, directed by Joe Mantello, followed by the critically acclaimed revival of Waiting for Godot as Estragon ( Outer Critics Circle nomination ) with Bill Irwin as Vladimir.

Critics complained that he mismanaged the failed impeachment effort in December of the same year against Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Six National Book Critics Circle Awards recognize " best books " published in the United States during the preceding year in six categories: fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism, and poetry.

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Critics sometimes refer to LIEO as the Washington Consensus, which implies that this system works mostly in the favor of the United States at the expense of smaller countries.

" Critics of H-1B use for outsourcing have also noted that more H-1B visas are granted to companies headquartered in India than companies headquartered in the United States.

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

Fischer-Dieskau was ranked the second greatest singer of the century ( after Jussi Björling ) by Classic CD ( United Kingdom ) " Top Singers of the Century " Critics ' Poll ( June 1999 ).

Critics of the sport argue that Vale Tudo shows should all adopt the much safer mixed martial arts rules that have developed and gained athletic sanctioning in countries such as the United States and Japan.

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 regard the surgery as unnecessary, as Koreans born in the United States have no trouble distinctly pronouncing / r / and / l /.

Critics argued that the United Kingdom was obligated to make a strong prima facie case to US courts before extradition would be granted, and that, by contrast, extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States was a matter of administrative decision alone, without prima facie evidence.

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 foreign companies allege, for instance, that firms such as Nike and Gap Inc. resort to child labor and sweatshops in developing nations, paying their workers wages far lower than those that prevail in developed nations ( where the products are sold ).

Critics of neo-colonialism also argue that investment by multinational corporations enriches few in underdeveloped countries, and causes humanitarian, environmental and ecological devastation to the populations which inhabit the neocolonies whose " development " and economy is now dependent on foreign market's and large scale trade agreements.

Critics of protectionist steel trade policies attribute the cause of this lack of competitiveness to American steel producers like Bethlehem having been shielded from foreign competition by quotas, voluntary export restraints, minimum price undertakings, and antidumping and countervailing duty measures which were in effect for the three decades preceding Bethlehem Steel's collapse.

Critics have further argued that it promotes the belief in a single, transcendent deity ; while this is a belief that is followed by the main Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it is foreign to the beliefs of many other religions.

Critics of the amendment felt that the move hurt Americans competing for jobs abroad by putting an unnecessary tax burden on foreign employers.

Critics contend that spending a portion of funding on abstinence-until-marriage programs is unjust while others feel that foreign aid is generally inefficient.

Critics of this approach argue that citing foreign decisions as legal precedents threatens American sovereignty and " lends itself to manipulation.

Critics argue that when resources are transferred to foreign corporations and / or national elites, the goal of public prosperity is replaced with the goal of private accumulation.

Critics of geostrategy have asserted that it is a pseudoscientific gloss used by dominant nations to justify imperialist or hegemonic aspirations, or that it has been rendered irrelevant because of technological advances, or that its essentialist focus on geography leads geostrategists to incorrect conclusions about the conduct of foreign policy.

Critics of the sale focused on allegations directed toward Thaksin and a compliant government that the transaction was exempt from capital gains tax, the fact that the Thai company was sold to a Singaporean company, and the fact that the Thai law regarding foreign investments in the telecom sector had been amended just prior to the sale.

Critics such as Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky have suggested that racism has played a significant role in U. S. foreign policy in the Middle East and its treatment of the Arabs.

" Critics of this interpretation argue that the Soviet economy was, in reality, rather autarkic ( self-sufficient ), that foreign trade was state-directed and played a comparatively small role in the economy as a whole, and that the foreign transactions were often non-commercial ( often a form of barter, subsidized transfers or counter-trade ).

Critics have therefore alleged that Currie's approach is nothing more than a complex pretext for not applying foreign law when there are two or more personal laws.

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

Critics, such as political economist Karl Polanyi, question whether a spontaneously ordered market can exist, completely free of " distortions " of political policy ; claiming that even the ostensibly freest markets require a state to exercise coercive power in some areas-to enforce contracts, to govern the formation of labor unions, to spell out the rights and obligations of corporations, to shape who has standing to bring legal actions, to define what constitutes an unacceptable conflict of interest, etc.

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

Critics also argue that charging more to drive is elitist policy, pricing the poor off of roads so that the wealthy can moveabout unencumbered.

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 inside and outside the FDP have accused him of focusing on public relations, as opposed to developing and promoting sound public policy, especially in the election campaign of 2002.

Critics of the Eisenhower NSC system have argued that it was inflexible, overstaffed, unable to anticipate and react to immediate crises, and weighed down by committees reporting in great detail on long checklists of minor policy concerns.

Critics cite concerns over privacy and the possibility of a totalitarian state where political dissent is impossible and opponents of state policy are removed in COINTELPRO-like purges.

Critics point out that Scargill's policy of letting each region decide seemed inconsistent with the threatened expulsion of the Nottinghamshire branch after 20, 000 out of 27, 000 miners in the county voted against the strike.

Critics have argued that business contracts with the US government awarded to a company ( Perini ) controlled by Blum may raise a potential conflict-of-interest issue with the voting and policy activities of his wife.

Critics also argue that charging more to drive is elitist policy, pricing the poor off of roads so that the wealthy can move about unencumbered.

" Critics have charged that this policy orientation reflects a sectarian, conservative Catholic position that endangers the religious freedom of others, as well as faith / state separation

Critics of the ANL claim that its " No Platform for Nazis " policy and call for far right parties to be " shut down " amounts to denying the democratic rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association.

Critics of the KPD accused it of having pursued a sectarian policy – e. g. the Social Democratic Party criticized the KPD's thesis of Social Fascism ( which addressed the SPD as the Communist's main enemy ).

Critics of this policy primarily see this as a violation of free speech.

Critics accused him of being soft on drugs, and the policy became a source of public controversy and debate.

" Critics of this policy argue that it is to maintain his grip on power as supporters of his government directly benefit from their personal gains of land redistribution far more than the landless population.

Critics of this policy contend that the Government of Eritrea was erasing the historical fabric of Eritrea while proponents believe that these new Regional boundaries would ease historical land disputes.

Critics bitterly insinuated that politically influential members of the Royal Canberra Golf Club, whose course was situated on the location of the proposed West Lake, were responsible for the change in policy.

Critics argue that judges are making determinations of policy and morality that properly belong with legislators ( i. e. " legislating from the bench "), or argue that judges are reading views into the Constitution that are not really implied by the document, or argue that judges are claiming power to expand the liberty of some people at the expense of other people's liberty ( e. g., as in the Dred Scott case ), or argue that judges are addressing substance instead of process.

Critics accused President Richard M. Nixon of impeding the EEC's inclusion in the special relationship by his economic policy, which dismantled the postwar international monetary system and sought to force open European markets for US exports.