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 note that while this theory may explain a certain kind of infant-directed ' protolanguage ' – known today as ' motherese ' – it does little to solve the really difficult problem, which is the emergence among adults of syntactical speech.

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 later cited the task forces as a factor in a perceived elitist approach to Great Society programs.

Critics claim that Australian children view television programs imported largely from the USA, however, the Australian Content Standard requires all free-to-air commercial networks to broadcast an annual minimum of 55 % Australian content ( between 6 a. m. and midnight ).

Critics of Jewish Renewal claim that the movement emphasizes individual spiritual experience and subjective opinion over communal norms and Jewish textual literacy ; the above-mentioned formalization of the ALEPH ordination programs may be a response to such criticism.

Critics argue that such programs decrease security by providing an easier path to carry contraband through.

Critics point out that Shelby supports big government programs but ignores the private sector at every opportunity.

Critics charge that the TM movement is a bastardized form of Hinduism which denies its religious roots and claims a scientific basis for the purpose of attempting to secure government funding for its programs.

Among Rotten Tomatoes ' " Top Critics " division, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 17 % based on 35 reviews with an average score of 4. 1 / 10.

Critics have themselves been the subject of criticism ; Kalichman writes: " Anticircumcision groups have long existed and are increasingly vocal as MC programs for HIV prevention are promoted.

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

Among Rotten Tomatoes ' Top Critics, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 60 %.

Critics of market failure theory, like Ronald Coase, Harold Demsetz, and James M. Buchanan argue that government programs and policies also fall short of absolute perfection.

Among Rotten Tomatoes ' Top Critics, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 100 %.

Critics argue that for online education to be taken seriously, online programs must adhere to generally accepted educational standards.

Critics pointed out that the episode had been produced only because UPN ( the network on which the show was broadcast ) instructed the producers of all its programs to make HIV-AIDS related episodes for the World AIDS Day awareness month.

Critics were concerned changing programs would hurt children's literacy, while advocates argued that the old program was too expensive and the new program would help more children in more grades.

" Among Rotten Tomatoes Top Critics, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 50 %, based on a sample of 30 reviews.

Critics have also argued that, as the Austrian business cycle theory points to the actions of fractional-reserve banks and central banks to explain the business cycles, it fails to explain the severity of business cycles before the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913.

Critics of the government say that the $ 500 million credit from Russia should have gone to develop industry, instead of going to the construction sector.

Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.

Critics of corporate-led globalization have expressed concern about the methodology used in arriving at the World Bank's statistics and argue that more detailed variables measuring poverty should be studied.

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 have questioned whether not one, but perhaps two ghosts appear in this scene: Banquo and Duncan.

Critics argue that there are some phenomena which are better captured by symbolic models, and that connectionist models are often so complex as to have little explanatory power.

Critics of scholars who discuss cultural imperialism have a number of critiques.

Critics, then and since, have questioned the accuracy of the data so garnered.

Critics of Boswell have pointed out that many earlier doctrinal sources condemn homosexuality in ethical terms without prescribing a punishment, and that Boswell's citations reflected a general trend towards harsher penalties from the 12th century onwards.

Critics have explored the connection between the creation of Thomas ' mythological pasts into his works such as " The Orchards ", which Ann Elizabeth Mayer believes reflects the Welsh myths of the Mabinogion.

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 of Derrida have countless times quoted it as a slogan to characterize and stigmatize deconstruction.

Critics claim the vocabulary and style of the Pauline letters could not have been written by Paul according to available biographical information and reflect the views of the emerging Church rather than the apostle's.

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 claimed that the Nazis ' claim of scientific reasons behind their promotion of racism and hostility to homosexuals is pseudoscience.

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.

Critics have objected to GM crops per se on several grounds, including ecological concerns, and economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are subject to intellectual property law.

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 of the East German state have claimed that the state's commitment to communism was a hollow and cynical tool of a ruling elite.

Critics have long taken as self-referential a passage in the Odyssey describing a blind bard, Demodocus, in the court of the Phaeacian king, who recounts stories of Troy to the shipwrecked Odysseus.