Critics of his approach state that he was dictatorial and that he imposed a theocratic viewpoint on the broadcasting service.

Critics responded to his aggressive approach in kind, and their reactions were either ones of revulsion or praise, depending on whether the writer's sympathies favoured the Bourbon or Liberal viewpoint.

Critics of intelligent design and its movement contend that intelligent design is a specific form of creationism, neo-creationism, a viewpoint rejected by intelligent design advocates.

It was awarded the Camera d ' Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival as well as the 1985 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film, and became a landmark work in modern independent film.

Critics responded positively to Davis's performance and several of her lines became well-known, particularly, " Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night.

Critics charge that standardized tests became a mandatory curriculum placed into schools without public debate and without any accountability measures of its own.

Olivier won the New York Film Critics award for Best Actor as a compromise selection after the voters became deadlocked in a choice between Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in The Godfather after Stacey Keach in Fat City won a plurality in initial voting and rules were changed requiring a majority.

Critics commented that the B side " Wrap it Up " could have been a separate successful single, which it later became for The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

Mon Oncle quickly became an international success, and won that year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Special Prize at Cannes, as well as the New York Film Critics Award.

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

The film won her the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, and led to her starring role in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild ( 1986 ), which became a cult favorite.

It also won the " International Critics Prize " at the Cannes Film Festival and became the first Canadian feature film nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Critics argued that the Progressive Conservative government's price deregulation policy ( implemented before Baird became Energy Minister ) was responsible.

" Kavalier & Clay was published to " nearly unanimous praise " and became a New York Times Best Seller, receiving nominations for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction.

It became the first Singaporean film to be selected at the International Critics ' Week at Cannes Film Festival ( competing for the Caméra d ' Or ) and was listed by The Wall Street Journal as one of the most notable films from Asia in 2010.

In 1997 he became the recipient of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

Critics believed that Constantine's batting reached its peak once he became an accomplished league cricketer.

Critics were intrigued by what soon became known as Azito's signature: a dancing style that made him look like a somewhat off-kilter marionette, accompanied by stylized facial expressions.

Critics state this is merely because his immediate predecessors were or became strident reactionaries like Pope Pius IX.

Critics of Balcerowicz's Plan point to Russia as a country that privatized its industry in a similar manner and quickly became crony capitalistic.

Critics lauded her elegant fashion sense, and Windsor became a noted trend-setter of 1920s fashion.

One of the major New Critics, in 1976, he helped found the School of Criticism and Theory, which became an influential forum for literary criticism and critical theory in the United States.

In May 2012 he became founding co-chair of the Boston Online Film Critics Association.

Fences became the most honored Broadway play in history ( at that point ), winning the Pulitzer Prize, four Tony Awards, as well as Drama Desk, New York Drama Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards.

" Critics of Juche charge that the " Juche dating system ", as it is based on a person's birth date rather than a political era, reflects a dynastic tradition where era names are specified for ruling Emperors of Japan and China, as well as the Korean Emperors, who also used this system.

He has earned more than 40 international awards and distinctions, including two Grammy Awards ( USA ), several Juno Awards ( Canada ), the Grand Prix du Président de la République ( France ), the Prix mondial du disque de Montreux ( Switzerland ), the Amsterdam Edison Award, the Japan Record Academy Award, and the German Music Critics ' Award.

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.

* 2008: 17th Japan Movie Critics Award: Best Actress for Sidecar ni Inu

* 2004: 13th Japan Movie Critics Award: Best Actress for Yomigaeri

" Matt Paprocki of Blog Critics said the film is " pretty flawed, those of us who still love seeing Japan get trampled are in for a treat.

Between heaven and hell in contemporary Japanese art ,' opened at Japan Society, New York in March 2011 and was judged by the American Branch of the International Association of Art Critics as ' the best exhibition in a non-profit or public space in 2011 '.

Critics found the soundtrack and tunes memorable and moving, but criticized the localization, unintuitive camera control, and dull stretches of travel through Japan.

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 of sedevacantism argue that this also means that the theory advanced by the seventeenth-century theologian and Doctor of the Church Robert Bellarmine that a pope who fell into heresy would automatically forfeit his office and could be formally deposed has been overruled by Church authority by Benedict XIV in " De Synodo Dioecesano " ( 10, 1, 5 ) and by the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Can.

Critics of the Seventeenth Amendment claim that by altering the way senators are elected, the states lost any representation they had in the federal government and that this led to the gradual " slide into ignominy " of state legislatures, as well as an overextension of federal power and the rise of special interest groups to fill the power vacuum previously occupied by state legislatures.

Critics of the latter idea point out that the half-life of Pu-240 is 6, 560 years and Pu-239 is 24, 110 years, and thus the relative enrichment of one isotope to the other with time occurs with a half-life of 9, 000 years ( that is, it takes 9000 years for the fraction of Pu-240 in a sample of mixed plutonium isotopes, to spontaneously decrease by half — a typical enrichment needed to turn reactor-grade into weapons-grade Pu ).

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 have also opined that the poem may have been inspired by the voyage of Thomas James into the Arctic.

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 of the mines are concerned that, once mined, the uranium will leach into the water of the Colorado River and contaminate the water supply for up to 18 million people.

Critics asserted that advertising was co-opting elements of grunge and turning it into a fad.

Critics noted his propensity for recycling material, including incorporating elements of his journalism into later novels.

Critics of cognitive linguistics have argued that most of the evidence from the cognitive view comes from the research in pragmatics and semantics on research into metaphor and preposition choice.

Critics and film historians have often noted how the film is divided into three equal thirds or acts.

Critics have jokingly described three phases in the development of James's prose: " James the First, James the Second, and The Old Pretender " and observers do often group his works of fiction into three periods.

Critics, like John Micklethwait in the book The Right Nation, claim that Bush was deceived by neoconservatives into adopting their policies.

Critics of the three-prong test contend that it operates as a " quota " in that it places undue emphasis on the first prong ( known as the " proportionality " prong ), which fails to take into account any differences in the genders ' respective levels of interest in participating in athletics ( in spite of the third prong, which focuses on any differences in the genders ' respective levels of interest in participation ).

Critics state that the ultimate aim of Scientology lawsuits is to destroy church opponents by forcing them into bankruptcy or submission, using its resources to pursue frivolous lawsuits at considerable cost to defendants.

Critics decried poorly planned transportation which left spectators waiting for hours in freezing weather, and some athletes complained about lousy accommodations at the Olympic village, where the dorms would later be turned into a prison.

Critics predicted that the breed would develop back, hip and leg problems similar to those that plague some Dachshunds. Amidst much controversy, TICA accepted the Munchkin into its New Breed development program in September 1994.

Critics have voiced widely varying opinions on where Rhapsody fits into the jazz canon.

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 also noted its generally asexual treatment of homosexuality: Janet Maslin commented in the New York Times that the film is not one " to associate gayness with actual sex ," while TV Guide quipped that it " finally gets discussion about gay people out of the bedroom and into the record store.

Critics of enveloping outer garments list two main factors that go into these health risks: first, such garments are physically limiting because of their weight and because they limit a wearer's field of vision.

Critics argue, however, that microcredit has not had a positive impact on gender relationships, does not alleviate poverty, has led many borrowers into a debt trap and constitutes a " privatization of welfare ".