Brownson was summed up by poet and critic James Russell Lowell in his satirical A Fable for Critics as someone trying to bite off more than he could chew: " his mouth very full with attempting to gulp a Gregorian bull ".

Critics allege that the voter turnout at local, regional and national elections across Italy rarely ever goes past the 80-85 % mark.

Critics often seek to understand Alcaeus in comparison with Sappho:

Critics argue that the technique is inaccurate for comparison of closely related species, as any attempt to measure differences between orthologous sequences between organisms is overwhelmed by the hybridization of paralogous sequences within an organism's genome.

Critics noted his turn towards a more serious role, which reportedly had more substance in comparison to his previous roles.

Critics have argued that the crux of Bush's campaign was the suggestion that John Kerry would be soft on terrorism in comparison to George Bush, and to present Bush as a " war President ".

Critics say that international comparison of well-being will be difficult on this model ; proponents maintain that each country can define its own measure of GNH as it chooses, and that comparisons over time between nations will have validity.

Critics of Good Day L. A. have praised the show for being " so wonderfully bonkers ", particularly in comparison with its competition, including KTLA's morning show plus the morning shows from ABC, CBS, and NBC.

Critics and public found it poor in comparison with its popular companion Old Mortality.

Critics of these and other controversial diagnoses often cite the DSM's previous inclusion of homosexuality, and the APA's eventual decision to remove it, as a precedent for current disputes.

Critics have doubted both the feasibility of self-replicating nanorobots and the feasibility of control if self-replicating nanorobots could be achieved: they cite the possibility of mutations removing any control and favoring reproduction of mutant pathogenic variations.

Critics cite Besson as a pivotal figure in the Cinéma du look movement, a specific, highly visual style produced from the 1980s into the early 1990s.

Critics cite the city's isolated location in the center of the Kazakh steppe and the forbidding climate in winter.

Critics of the government cite mis-management, corruption, and the pull out of the power agency's French partner at the beginning of 2002.

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 cite the financial involvement of the foundation as the turning point when these clinics began to change from giving practical experience to engaging in advocacy.

Critics of Scientology cite this passage, among others ( such as the widely documented Fair Game doctrine ), to support their contentions that the church uses smear tactics to augment the effectiveness of legal threats.

Critics of economic liberalisation and deregulation cite the benefits of regulation, and believe that certain regulations do not distort markets and allows companies to continue to be competitive, or according to some, grow in competition.

Critics of deregulation often cite the need of regulation to:

Critics also cite several first-person accounts of early church leaders attempting to use the polygamy doctrine to enter into illicit relationships with women.

Critics cite the financial involvement of the Ford Foundation as the turning point when such clinics began to change from giving practical experience to engaging in advocacy.

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 of digital imaging cite several negative consequences.

Critics of the First Vision cite the multiple versions of the First Vision as evidence that it may have been fabricated by Smith.

Critics often cite Episode II as the worst of the trilogy.

Critics of free market enterprise often cite this as a failure of free market economic systems.

Critics of this system cite the high maintenance cost reported by the military.

Critics cite breed registries for encouraging the inbreeding of dogs, thereby contributing to a proliferation of genetic disorders.

Critics of Kerry cite Associated Press reports that Kerry made efforts to keep loopholes for special interests.

Critics like Paula Nechak have called the film a " bold cautionary tale ", with references to the pressure of conformity and acceptance, and some critics even cite parallels to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ).

Critics of cults often cite love bombing as one of the features that may identify an organization as a cult.

Critics often cite certain works by García Márquez, such as A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and One Hundred Years of Solitude, as exemplary of magical realism, a style of writing in which the supernatural is presented as mundane, and the mundane as supernatural or extraordinary.

Critics often cite this distinction when commenting on O ' Brien's artistic aims in The Things They Carried and, in general, all of his fiction about Vietnam, claiming that O ' Brien feels that the realities of the Vietnam War are best explored in fictional form rather than the presentation of precise facts.

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 charge that Gartner vastly overstates his case, however.

Critics may view the fictional characters as a psychological case study, attempting to identify such Freudian concepts as Oedipus complex, penis envy, Freudian slips, Id, ego and superego and so on, and demonstrate how they influenced the thoughts and behaviors of fictional characters.

Critics, however, interpreted the sentence as stating that the case did not set precedent in any way and could not be used to justify any future court decision, and some suggested that this was evidence the majority realized its holding was untenable.

Critics of polygamy in the early LDS Church have documented several cases where deception and coercion were used to induce marriage, for example citing the case of Joseph Smith who warned some potential spouses of eternal damnation if they did not consent to be his wife.

Critics have pointed out a disturbing correlation between Ferengi attributes ( love of profit that overrides communal decency ; the large, sexualized head feature, in this case ears ) and negative Jewish stereotypes.

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 classical view of freedom of contract argue that this freedom is illusory when the bargaining power of the parties is highly unequal, most notably in the case of contracts between employers and workers.

Critics, however, have suggested that if this is the case, they will pay more income tax anyway, and that this would be a fairer source of the money.

Critics of the Shah Bano case point out that while divorce is within the purview of personal laws, maintenance is not, and thus it is discriminatory to exclude Muslim women from a civil law.

Critics of substantive due process claim that the doctrine began, at the federal level, with the infamous 1857 slavery case of Dred Scott v. Sandford.

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 have also labeled Porter's conclusions as lacking in empirical support and as justified with selective case studies.

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 of substantive due process often claim that the doctrine began, at the federal level, with the infamous 1857 slavery case of Dred Scott v. Sandford.

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 such as Galen Strawson reply that, in the case of consciousness, even a mistaken experience retains the essential face of experience that needs to be explained, contra Dennett.

Critics of the deflationary approach object that qualia are a case where a single reality cannot have multiple appearances.

Critics point to the case of Clever Hans, a horse who could apparently count, but who was actually understanding subtle cues from the questioner.

Critics point out that: ( 1 ) the workplace safety standards are based on allowable maximums in the workplace, not mercury body burden ; ( 2 ) the workplace safety numbers are not applicable to continuous 24hr exposure, they're limited to a normal work day and 40 hr work-week ; and ( 3 ) the uptake / absorption numbers are averages and not worst case patients ( those most at risk ).

Critics of Starr also contend that his investigation was highly politicized because it regularly leaked tidbits of information to the press, in violation of legal ethics, and because his report included lengthy descriptions which were humiliating yet irrelevant to the legal case.

Critics also cite the case of Charles Keating, who stole in excess of US $ 252 million in the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s, and who had donated $ 1. 25 million to Mother Teresa's cause.

Critics such as Benny Morris, David Wise and others have argued the book is essentially a novel and that a case officer would not have had access to so many operational secrets.

Critics of the federal government's involvement in the Terri Schiavo case, which culminated around the same time as the Sun Hudson case, pointed out that the Advance Directives Act was signed into law by George W. Bush, who was then Governor of Texas.