Critics said this was an attempt to distract attention from a drop in the approval ratings of President Bush, who was campaigning for re-election.

Critics have said that parapsychologists misuse meta-analysis to create the incorrect impression that statistically significant results have been obtained that indicate the existence of psi phenomena.

In an awards ceremony in the Critics Choice Awards celebrating Tarantino, he said he got his start in filmmaking in his 20s.

Critics said he was out of touch.

Critics of the KMT's program for a centralized national culture regard it as institutionalized ethnic discrimination, and point to the loss of several indigenous languages and a perpetuation of shame for being an aborigine < ref name =" shame "> noted that Taiwan's first democratically elected President, Li Teng-Hui, said in a famous interview: "...

Critics of the plan said that Alcatraz is too rich in history to be destroyed.

Critics said that HUD's lax oversight of their program allowed the fraud to occur.

Critics note that while the court said that the ABC was the first electronic digital computer, it did not define the term computer.

Scott did not turn down the New York Film Critics Award for his performance ( of which his then wife Colleen Dewhurst said, " George thinks this is the only film award worth having ").

Critics said the countess should sell the gems and give the proceeds to political protesters in Bahrain.

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 said he should have admitted his book was fiction.

Critics of consumerism include Pope Benedict XVI, German historian Oswald Spengler ( who said, " Life in America is exclusively economic in structure and lacks depth "), and French writer Georges Duhamel, who held " American materialism up as a beacon of mediocrity that threatened to eclipse French civilization ".

Critics have said the film contains conspiracy, speculation, and projection.

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 also seen an influence from Rainer Werner Fassbinder but Kaurismäki-a keen film buff himself-has said that he somehow never got around to seeing any Fassbinder movies until quite recently.

) Critics said that the nation was paying poor women to throw their husbands out of the house.

Critics have said the ACS was a racist society, while others point to its benevolent origins and later takeover by men with visions of an American empire in Africa.

Critics have also said that meaningful art is Karabekian ’ s way of battling his own demons.

Critics have said that the term “ open source ” fosters an ambiguity of a different kind such that it confuses the mere availability of the source with the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute it.

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 enjoyed the graphics ; GamePro called Seasons " bright and colorful " with " surprisingly expressive and well-designed " animations, and Gaming Target said Ages is " beautiful and creative ", with " meticulous attention to detail ".

Critics said that this made the game too easy and GameSpot said that it " broke Tetris ".

Critics argue that behaviors that are said to identify self-awareness resemble existing social behaviors, and so researchers could be misinterpreting social responses to another dolphin.

In Which We Serve also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film ( beating Casablanca ) and the Argentine Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Film in 1943.

Critics of the proposal called the plans " pork " and " corporate welfare " but Johnson told The Plain Dealer " World-class research creates jobs " and " We believe this issue will be victorious, mostly because it makes sense to Ohioans to have Ohio spending money to ensure that all the infrastructure in the state is preparing for the jobs of the century.

* National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry

Critics of Hayes such as Salon. com have stated that the intelligence community consistently held that the relationship between Saddam and al-Qaeda was not operational, with Tenet telling 60 Minutes, " We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al-Qaeda for 9 / 11 or any operational act against America, period.

His book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families was published in 1998, and it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the George Polk Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award, the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award, the PEN / Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, and in England, The Guardian First Book Award.

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 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 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 suggest that ICANN should not be allowed to impose business rules on market participants, and that all TLDs should be added on a first-come-first-served basis and the market should be the arbiter of who succeeds and who does not.

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

Critics have coined the term The Psi Assumption to describe " the assumption that any significant departure from the laws of chance in a test of psychic ability is evidence that something anomalous or paranormal has occurred ... other words assuming what they should be proving.

Critics have argued that if the test subjects are unable to count for some other reason ( perhaps because they are nomadic hunter / gatherers with nothing to count and hence no need to practise doing so ) then one should not expect their language to have words for such numbers.

Critics charge that such taxes blindly tax those who make legitimate and illegitimate usages of the products ; for instance, a person or corporation using CD-R's for data archival should not have to subsidize the producers of popular music.

Critics of Kahneman and Tversky such as Gerd Gigerenzer argue that heuristics should not lead us to conceive of human thinking as riddled with irrational cognitive biases, but rather to conceive rationality as an adaptive tool that is not identical to the rules of formal logic or the probability calculus.

Critics of greater privatization state that healthcare should be kept public, ( public in funding only, as most services are provided by the private sector including doctors who in most cases are private corporations ) in part because it separates Canadians from Americans by mandating equality and fairness in health care.

Critics such as Bloom see cultural studies as it applies to literary scholarship as a vehicle of careerism by academics, instead of promoting essentialist theories of culture, mobilising arguments that scholars should promote the public interest by studying what makes beautiful literary works beautiful.

Critics of beauty contests argue that such contests reinforce the idea that girls and women should be valued primarily for their physical appearance, and that this puts tremendous pressure on women to conform to conventional beauty standards by spending time and money on fashion, cosmetics, hair styling and even cosmetic surgery.

Critics argue that an ordinary customer of an ISP should not be held responsible for the actions of other customers of that ISP.

Critics argue that a higher evidentiary standard should be applied to fit parents, and that the Best Interests standard should only be applied in cases where a termination of parental rights has already occurred.

Critics were mostly negative about the book, considering the book overwritten, the characters weak and uninteresting, and scenes which should have been tragedy instead a " harlequinade ".

Critics assert that naked CDSs should be banned, comparing them to buying fire insurance on your neighbor ’ s house, which creates a huge incentive for arson.

Critics also believe that, in exchange for providing humanitarian aid, the South should demand that the North return detained South Korean citizens and the remains of POWs from the Korean War.

Critics argued that the state should never have been called until the state's fate was clear.

Critics, however, said that the issue was one that should be experimented on in society as a whole, not in the military.

Critics said he should have admitted his book was a fictional novel ) However, he finally achieved his permanent liberation in 1941, by using a bag of coconuts as a makeshift raft and riding the tide out from the island.