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 argue that the Charter presents the history of German people as starting from the expulsions, while ignoring events like Holocaust: professor Micha Brumlik pointed out that one third of signatories were former devoted Nazis and many actively helped in realisation of Hitler's goals ; Ralph Giordano wrote in Hamburger Abendblatt " the Charter doesn't contain a word about Hitler, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

" Critics of modernism argued that the attributes of perfection and minimalism themselves were subjective, and pointed out anachronisms in modern thought and questioned the benefits of its philosophy.

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

Critics pointed out that a precedent had been set in the naming of einsteinium during Albert Einstein's life and a survey indicated that chemists were not concerned with the fact that Seaborg was still alive.

Critics of this kind include anti-Stalinist communists such as Leon Trotsky, who pointed out that Lenin attempted to persuade the CPSU to remove Stalin from his post as its General Secretary.

Critics pointed out that the APA declined to advise its members not to participate in such interrogations.

Critics of this viewpoint became louder as Japan slid into a sustained deflationary spiral and the collapse of the savings-and-loan banking system in the United States pointed to larger structural changes in the economy.

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 pointed out that her apology came at a time when a group of New England Veterans had launched a campaign to disrupt a film project she was working on, leading to the charge that her apology was motivated at least partially by self-interest.

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 have pointed out that a consistent phonemically based system would be impractical: for example, phoneme distribution differs between British English and American English ; furthermore, while English Received Pronunciation features about 20 vowels, some second language varieties of English have 10 or even fewer.

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 said that intelligent design proponents had set up their own journals with " peer review " which lacks impartiality and rigor, and pointed to ISCID's journal Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design as an example, characterizing the ISCID fellows who comprise PCID < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s reviewers as " ardent supporters of intelligent design.

Critics have pointed out that, unlike most communist-to-social democrat changes in the Eastern bloc, Romania's tended to retain various cornerstones.

Critics pointed out, however, that private firearm transfers like the one made by Sarah Brady are a common concern of gun control advocates ( although exemptions for family members have been allowed in past legislation to regulate such sales ).

Critics also pointed out the car's high sale price, commenting that a lower price would have made the car's apparent faults far more forgivable.

Critics pointed out the apparent lack of quality players in the squad and coach Klinsmann's decision to live in America rather than Germany.

Critics pointed to writings by Sangarakshita, and his senior advisor Dharmachari Subhuti, which placed such emphasis on single-sex activities, and what the Triratna Buddhist Community calls “ spiritual friendship ”, that the potential for misunderstandings or inappropriate behaviour appeared to some to be inevitable.

Critics have pointed out that the absence of a genuinely independent constitutional judiciary rendered the document virtually meaningless, however.

Critics pointed out that Hobbs was more defensive in his approach than he was for Surrey, and Wisden noted that he was " not quite so brilliant as in England " but said that he was " an absolute master on matting wickets.

Critics pointed out that the act also centralized more power in the hands of the governor and accused Chandler of ulterior motives in supporting it.

Critics also pointed out the council itself would not be allowed to take any action against the parties as evidence the court action demonstrated a misuse of funds.

Critics have claimed that recent developments are a consequence of national economic recovery and pointed to the loss of thousands of Alabama's historic textile jobs under Riley.

Critics have suggested that Google has ulterior motives for " turning a blind eye " to the problem since the websites being pointed to use Google ads, which potentially generate revenue for both the spammer AND Google.

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 Wittfogel's oriental despotism theory point out that water management was not a high priority when compared to taxes, rituals, and fighting off bandits.

Critics point out that spindle activity is positively correlated with intelligence.

Critics point out a number of problems with this theory.

Critics, such as political economist Karl Polanyi, question whether a spontaneously ordered market can exist, completely free of " distortions " of political policy ; claiming that even the ostensibly freest markets require a state to exercise coercive power in some areas-to enforce contracts, to govern the formation of labor unions, to spell out the rights and obligations of corporations, to shape who has standing to bring legal actions, to define what constitutes an unacceptable conflict of interest, etc.

A former senior product manager at Master Lock, a trigger lock manufacturer, was quoted as saying “ If you put a trigger lock on any loaded gun, you are making the gun more dangerous .” Critics also point out that a trigger lock will increase the time it takes a gun owner to respond to a self-defense emergency.

Critics point out that P2P networking has legitimate uses, and that this is another way that large providers are trying to control use and content on the Internet, and direct people towards a client-server-based application architecture.

Critics of this theory point out that as indigenous Australians only developed boomerangs and spears for hunting around 10, 000 years ago, a critical fall in numbers due to systematic hunting is unlikely.

Critics point out that the film Pearl Harbors US-biased portrayal of events is a compensation for technical assistance received by the US armed forces.

Critics said he was out of touch.

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 generally approved of the changes, but Berle's ratings continued to fall and Buick pulled out after two seasons.

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 point out that this could have a chilling effect on political free speech, the ability of journalists to use anonymous sources, whistle blowing, political blogging and other areas where the public needs protection from retaliation through anonymity.

Critics of libéralisme argue that governmental intervention is necessary for the welfare of workers ; they point out that great gains in workers ' rights were historically achieved by government intervention and social mobilization, as during the Popular Front.

Critics of the theory charged that the Indochinese wars were largely indigenous or nationalist in nature ( such as the Vietnamese driving out the French ), and that no such monolithic force as " world communism " existed.