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 obscenity law argue that defining what is obscene is paradoxical, arbitrary, and subjective.

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 state that Armstrong taught salvation as being legalistic obedience to God's law, including such laws as Sabbath keeping, dietary laws, and other laws kept by Ancient Israelites but not typically kept by ' mainstream ' Christian denominations.

There are two streams of thought: Critics believe bicameralism makes meaningful political reforms more difficult to achieve and increases the risk of gridlock ( particularly in cases where both chambers have similar powers ), while proponents argue the merits of the " checks and balances " provided by the bicameral model, which they believe help prevent the passage into law of ill-considered legislation.

Critics of the CPA argue that these policies were not only rather blatant attempts to shape Iraq's economy in the interests of American ( and other ) investors and against the interests of Iraqis themselves, but also that they were illegal under international law, because an occupying power is prohibited from rewriting the laws of the occupied country.

Critics have objected to GM foods on several grounds, including safety issues, ecological concerns, and economic concerns raised by the fact GM plants ( and potentially animals ) that are food sources are subject to intellectual property law.

Critics charge that the Socratic Method has fallen into disuse, and little debate occurs in law school classrooms, which are mostly lectures.

Critics question the forthrightness of some law schools in providing prospective students with accurate information on alumni job placement and compensation rates, suggesting that law schools may distort their statistics to attract students.

" Critics also claim that most FEC penalties for violating election law come well after the actual election in which they were committed.

Critics assailed the law as an attempt to circumvent the sovereignty of other states and become a venue for partisan show trials of propaganda value but no legal consequence.

Critics of the law and economics movements have argued that normative economic analysis does not capture the importance of human rights and concerns for distributive justice.

Critics contend that the motto's placement on money constitutes a " law respecting an establishment of religion " by the government, thus violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the Separation of church and state.

Critics point out that this legislation effectively circumvents the Second Amendment of the constitution by linking an individual's right to own or possess firearms to a matter of irrelevance, and without the need for a trial and conviction in a court of law.

Critics of the law have alleged that New Yorkers with political influence, wealth, or celebrity appear to be issued licenses more liberally.

Critics such as Associate Justice John Paul Stevens accused the Court of judicial activism ( i. e., interpreting law to reach a desired conclusion ).

Critics of Kaneko have stated that the main purpose of Winny is to violate copyright law, unlike Freenet, another peer-to-peer system that Winny is often compared to, which claims to protect freedom of speech.

" Critics therefore argue that, by legislating on issues that could be solved with texts other than laws, the French legislature lowers the values of the law in general.

Critics of Meadow's law state that it is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics, particularly relating to probability, likelihood, and statistical independence.

Critics noted these policies were accompanied by the erosion of the rule of law, and allegations surfaced of political and personal rivals being victimized amidst Bo ’ s anti-corruption drive.

Critics of the law include those who claim that it equiparates the crime of zina ( adultery ) and zina bil-jabr ( rape ).

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 Milošević claimed that the government continued to be authoritarian despite constitutional changes, as Milošević maintained strong political influence over the state media.

Critics have maintained that ejaculation is either stress incontinence or vaginal lubrication.

Critics have maintained that the simplicity of the rules often creates ahistorical strategies and results, which conflicts with the " definitive " claim made by some.

Critics of institutionalism have maintained that the concept of " institution " is so central for all social science that it is senseless to use it as a buzzword for a particular theoretical school.

Critics maintained it was hemorrhaging money.

Critics of the Drakes Estero theory have maintained that the geography of the cove does not match the descriptions in the journals of those on the voyage, or the map made from voyage accounts by Jodocus Hondius.

Critics maintained that " No major star suffered through more bad movies than Elvis Presley.

Critics did not agree with the strategy, and within two years, Fruitopia maintained only a weak market share.

Critics charged that Velella did nothing to build the local GOP and maintained a " non-aggression pact " with the Bronx County Democratic organization.

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 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 also question how any two given properties are determined to be properties of the same object if there is no substance in which they both inhere.

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 this theory regard it as simplistic, arguing that ( unlike New Zealand and America ) there is little direct evidence of hunting, and that the dates on which the theory rests are too uncertain to be relied on.

Critics of experimental parapsychology hold that there are no consistent and agreed-upon standards by which " ESP powers " may be tested.

* " Professor Behe admitted in " Reply to My Critics " that there was a defect in his view of irreducible complexity because, while it purports to be a challenge to natural selection, it does not actually address " the task facing natural selection.

Critics of the magazine felt that this lack of turnover eventually led to a formulaic sameness, although there is little agreement on when the magazine peaked or plunged.

Critics have doubted that any of the annotations in the Bible can be reliably attributed to de Vere and not the book's other owners prior to its acquisition by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1925, as well as challenging the strictness of Stritmatter's standards for a Biblical allusion in Shakespeare's works and arguing that there is no statistical significance to the overlap.

Critics argue that it is false either because it is an over-simplified interpretation of behaviour or that there exists empirical evidence of altruistic behaviour.

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

Critics of the books have criticised Koolhaas for being cynical-as if Western capitalism and globalization demolish all cultural identity-highlighted in the notion expounded in the books that " In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop ".

Critics from the neoclassical school of economics criticise state-ownership and centralisation of capital on the grounds that there is a lack of incentive in state institutions to act on information as efficiently as capitalist firms do because they lack hard budget constraints, resulting in reduced overall economic welfare for society.

Critics argue that this means there is never adequate justification for any statement in the chain.

Critics acknowledge that, whereas in the Anglo-Saxon cultures there is a large tradition of scientists writing popular books, such tradition was absent for a long period in the German and French languages, with journalists often filling the gap.

Critics of safe trade argue that the military and agriculture aspects of biosecurity are dissimilar, unlikely to converge in the form of an attack disguised as an accident, and require such differential prevention and response measures that there is little risk reduced in altering the fundamental structure of trade relationships to accommodate a robust regime of biosecurity.

Critics of the court decision also note that there is, at a component level, nothing in common between the two machines.

Critics argue that there is no treasure and that the apparent pit is a natural phenomenon, likely a sinkhole and natural caverns.

Critics complained that other machines could be bought for half the cost, and when IBM released the PC / AT in 1984 there was a machine that now competed with it technically.

Critics were concerned about Rowland's not being a native to the area, despite her time there while attending Wells College from 1958 to 1962.

Critics also said that the firefighters ' claim that their wage was unfair was also damaged by Professor Bain's report which observed that there were roughly 40 applicants for every firefighter's job advertised, indicating that the pay was more than sufficient.

Critics argue that there are recurring themes of music that begin at the beginning of the chapter and continue throughout the rest of the chapter, and also the book.

Critics argue that there are vast differences between the kind of ethics that are applied in, say, the modern labour movement or the anti-globalization movement, and those that would be applied by any believer in the literal interpretation of the Qur ' an.

Critics allege there is systematic abuse of the act against protesters.

Critics and opponents of integralism argue that the movement can be associated with fascism ( especially in Latin America ), although there exist deep points of disagreement: integralism stresses trade unionism and localism while fascism defends a centralist state ; the traditionalist and Catholic foundation of integralist ideas against the often secular and anti-clerical, and modernist philosophical basis of fascism.