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

Critics of mind control theories caution against the broader implications of these conversion models.

Critics claimed that these laws would lead to " 24-hour drinking ".

Critics have pointed to the Forer effect to suggest some of these appear to be more accurate and discriminating than they really are.

Critics may respond that this view seems to imply it would be similarly wrong for humans to try to reduce suffering in these ways, a position which few would advocate.

Critics use these statistics to support the original claim that originally it was not a merger of equals, that it was a takeover of UMIST by Manchester University and that this was not in UMIST's best interests.

Critics claim that these theories, when used as an explanation for fine-tuning, commit the inverse gambler's fallacy.

Critics of these views argue that withholding taxes in domestic trade or defying powerful nations regarding trade in narcotics or arms will very rapidly prove dangerous or fatal to some of the participants-and, furthermore, that at least some of these decisions are unpopular and are not reflective of the public will.

Critics have pointed out that Norway's economic structure is highly dependent on natural resources that do not require skilled labor, making economic growth highly vulnerable to fluctuations in the demand and pricing for these natural resources.

Critics of the claim for species status argue that these differences were caused by pathologies of anatomy and physiology.

Critics have also pointed out that landlocked humans without access to fish develop normal brains and these nutritional requirements are easily met with a land-based diet.

Critics suggest that Shakespeare did similar work with these sources in Othello, Julius Caesar and Coriolanus.

Critics of this practice such as Greenpeace, claim these practices contribute to inequality between developing countries rich in biodiversity, and developed countries hosting companies that engage in ' biopiracy '.

You've seen these two expert and resourceful players in " Citizen Kane "-" The Magnificent Ambersons " in which Miss Moorehead's performance won her the 1942 Film Critics ' Award.

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 Cabot's growth, such as the Little Rock-based newspaper Arkansas Times, accused these residents of " white flight ": simply giving up on an integrated Little Rock school district.

Critics of both are concerned that these large businesses will leverage their economic and political power to defeat attempts to regulate or restrain the spread of genetic engineering in agriculture, or leverage intellectual property rights in GMOs to unfair advantage over their competitors, against the interests of users and consumers of their products, and to the detriment of the environment.

Critics of GMOs and corporations say that these rights give already powerful corporations an even greater advantage, and in a way which disrupts millennia-old agricultural practices.

Critics contend that these requirements base salvation on the ' teachings of men ' rather than the grace of God or the instructions of the Bible.

Critics of Reagan's efforts questioned their purpose and argued that the program did not go far enough in addressing many social issues, including unemployment, poverty, and family dissolution ; Nancy's approach to promoting drug awareness was labeled as simplistic by liberal critics.

Critics claim that developing new nuclear weapons sends a proliferating message to non-nuclear powers, undermining non-proliferation efforts.

Critics of initial efforts by Celera Genomics to hold back data from sections of genome they sequenced for commercial exploitation felt that it would retard progress in science as a whole.

Critics of his dollarization efforts accuse him of doing so without popular consensus, except exclusively with bankers.

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

Critics of non-therapeutic circumcision argue that advocating circumcision to prevent HIV infection may detract from other efforts to prevent the spread of the virus such as using condoms.

Critics viewed the lack of White House support as retribution for Ervin's aggressive efforts to root out waste, fraud, and incompetence.

Critics claim widespread corruption among police and officials, including the sale of South African passports, had undermined counter-terrorism efforts.

Critics claim the events can be best viewed as a PR campaign for G8 leaders and multinational corporations, due to the disparity between the rhetoric of the events and the actual efforts made after the events in reducing poverty.

Critics and fans noticed the changes in style and sound: it was much clearer than previous efforts and was obviously influenced by post-rock and such bands as Alcest.

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 of heroin maintenance programmes object to the high costs of providing heroin to users.

Critics of AC can object that Chalmers begs the question in assuming that all mental properties are sufficiently captured by abstract causal organization.

Indicative of the reader-response school of theory, Terence Hawkes writes that the fundamental close reading technique is based on the assumption that “ the subject and the object of study — the reader and the text — are stable and independent forms, rather than products of the unconscious process of signification ," an assumption which he identifies as the " ideology of liberal humanism ,” which is attributed to the New Critics who are “ accused of attempting to disguise the interests at work in their critical processes .” For Hawkes, ideally, a critic ought to be considered to “ the finished work by his reading of it, and to remain simply an inert consumer of a ‘ ready-made ’ product .”

Critics point to a lack of features, common in most other programming languages, such as, until version 2009, native recursion and, until version 8. 20, native object oriented features.

Critics of the theory include Noam Chomsky, who terms it the ' non-existence ' hypothesis — a denial of the very existence of language as an object of study for natural science.

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

Critics of this argument object it is an uninformative and unhelpful tautology.

Critics of Marxian value theory object that labor is not the only source of value-added goods.

Critics object however that without the supply of means of production, labour also can produce nothing.

Critics object to the use of gold cyanidation in the mine at Lake Cowal and other gold mines, and point to the release of approximately seven tons of mercury during 2004 – 2005 at the Super Pit gold mine ( a 50 / 50 joint venture with Newmont Mining Corporation ) near the city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia.

Critics point out, that, among other problems common to censorship systems, it could easily later be re-purposed, perhaps quietly or too quickly to stop, for whatever desired object, that may have nothing whatsoever to do with the reasons backers claimed to have built / to be building it for.

Critics object to death-qualification because empirical evidence has shown that death-qualified jurors are more likely to convict defendants of crimes than are jurors generally.

Critics object to the real or perceived cruelty involved in some forms of wildlife management.