As the epitome of creating very popular teen-pop music, the trio were often satirised or criticised.

Other episodes have satirised the Japanese love of golf, and criticised countries which have sharp north / south economic divides.

The magazine satirised and was critical of many gay activists and businesses and Morris was criticised for " biting the hand that fed him " during his age of consent campaign.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Lord Sydney, often criticised as an ineffectual incompetent, had made one fundamental decision about the settlement that was to influence it from the start.

But the club's finances were still far from secure, and they were forced to leave the Valley just after the start of the 1985 – 86 season after its safety was criticised by Football League officials.

Tacitus derided Domitian's victory against the Chatti as a " mock triumph ", and criticised his decision to retreat from Britain following the conquests of Agricola.

His performance proved unpopular with fans of the series, who criticised him for taking over the role from actor Peter Graves and playing the character as one of the villains.

The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.

Weber was ambivalent towards rationalisation ; while admitting it was responsible for many advances, in particular, freeing humans from traditional, restrictive and illogical social guidelines, he also criticised it for dehumanising individuals as " cogs in the machine " and curtailing their freedom, trapping them in the bureaucratic iron cage of rationality and bureaucracy.

With the Labour left still strong – in 1981 Benn decided to challenge Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, a contest Healey won narrowly – Foot struggled to make an impact and was widely criticised for it, though his performances in the Commons, most notably on the Falklands war of 1982, won him widespread respect from other parliamentarians, though he was criticised by some on the left who felt that he should not have supported the Thatcher government's immediate resort to military action.

Far from clear is whether the thinkers Moore criticised, even supposing he were right in those criticisms, were committing an error of inference — the true meaning of ' fallacy '— rather than simply a metaphysical mistake, or a dubious redefiniton.

" Yockey's philosophy, especially his vehement anti-Semitism, differs heavily from Spengler, however, who criticised anti-Semitism and racialism much in the same vein as his own influence Friedrich Nietzsche had ...

During his life, he was criticised by chroniclers for having taxed the clergy both for the Crusade and for his ransom, whereas the church and the clergy were usually exempt from taxes.

Modern socialism originated from an 18th-century intellectual and working class political movement that criticised the effects of industrialisation and private property on society.

This " magic formula " has been repeatedly criticised: in the 1960s, for excluding leftist opposition parties ; in the 1980s, for excluding the emerging Green party ; and particularly after the 1999 election, by the People's Party, which had by then grown from being the fourth largest party on the National Council to being the largest.

Both films have been criticised for deviating from the plot.

This language, like that of the Teletubbies in the 1990s, was invented by Peter Hawkins ( who also voiced the Daleks ) and was criticised for hindering children from learning proper English.

An eight county definition of Wessex has been criticised from a number of quarters.

In early 2010, a government proposal to remove 705 ha of land on the Te Ahumata Plateau ( called " White Cliffs " by the locals ) from Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act, which gives protection from the mining of public land, was widely criticised.

A third is archeologist Lawrence H. Keeley, who has criticised a " widespread myth " that " civilized humans have fallen from grace from a simple primeval happiness, a peaceful golden age " by uncovering archeological evidence that he claims demonstrates that violence prevailed in the earliest human societies.

Marcel Proust similarly learned from the Realist example ; he adored Balzac and studied his works carefully, although he criticised what he called Balzac's " vulgarity.

In an otherwise highly enthusiastic review of the best-of for the NME, Steve Sutherland criticised the band's " sheer disregard " for their earlier work ; " Just because these songs embarrassed them once they started listening to broadsheet critics and retreated wounded from the big-sales battle with Oasis doesn't mean that we're morons to love them.

In a 2002 op-ed, alter-globalisation activist and critic of Israel Naomi Klein criticised Indymedia for perpetuating conspiracy theories about the Jews, including supposed involvement with the September 11 attacks and re-posting from the infamous hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

The Syrian military and intelligence presence in Lebanon was criticised by some on Lebanon's right-wing inside and outside of the country, others believed it helped to prevent renewed civil war and discourage Israeli aggression, and others believed its presence and influence was helpful for Lebanese stability and peace but should be scaled back.

The arrests were condemned and criticised as illegal inside as well as outside Zambia, and accusations of torture were made as well.

" was criticised as " inappropriate " by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, which had recorded deaths of children trapped inside refrigerators.

Major causes of friction inside the coalition were, the 2006 pardon Act ( criticised by the right and by the IDV party ), a draft bill to establish civil unions ( vetoed by Christian Democrats ), Italy's continued involvement in Afghanistan ( strongly opposed by left-wing parties ), and finally the much publicized house-arrest of Clemente Mastella's wife ( then a prominent politician at the regional level ) over a corruption scandal.

In the run-up to the 2007 Scottish Parliament general election, McConnell was criticised by many inside and outside of the Labour party for his role in the party's poor start to the campaign with Labour solidly behind the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) in many opinion polls.

However, at its opening, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad mingled Islamic Republican and ancient Persian symbology which commentators inside and outside Iran criticised as an overt appeal to religious nationalism.

Its taxation laws have been widely criticised by various people and groups, however the former Chief Minister of Jersey, Terry Le Sueur, has countered these criticisms, saying that " Jersey among cooperative finance centres ".

Wittgenstein in his Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge 1939 criticised Principia on various grounds, such as:

Stevens is generally criticised for dictatorial methods and government corruption, but reduced ethnic polarisation in government by incorporating members of various ethnic groups into his all-dominating APC government

Levels of democracy and freedom of expression in the country are criticised by Amnesty International and various other organizations.

She was criticised for the lavish display of luxury in her various estates, although her rich family of financiers in many instances gave money to the government and saved the monarchy from bankruptcy.

Trotskyism has been criticised from various directions.

Early Human Development 84, 225-9 ( 2008 )).< ref > It should be noted this was a small study ( n = 31 cases and 31 controls ) with serious limitations ( several significant factors were not controlled ), and has been criticised from various perspectives.

The Duke has been criticised for using the Queen's Flight for transport to various golfing functions.

A friend and colleague of Erickson, the hypnosis researcher André Weitzenhoffer, a prolific and well-respected author in the field of hypnosis himself, has extensively criticised the ideas and influence of Erickson in various writings, such as his textbook The Practice of Hypnotism.

There have been various cases in which the laws have been used in scenarios criticised for being unrelated to fighting terrorism.

The VAN predictions have been severely criticised on various grounds, including being geophysically implausible, " vague and ambiguous ", failing to satisfy prediction criteria, and retroactive adjustment of parameters.

This edition has, however, been criticised for doing Aubrey " less than justice " on various grounds: for a failure to consolidate what were essentially drafts and working notes into a coherent whole, for silent omissions and rearrangements, for inadequate and occasionally inaccurate annotation, and for the omission of the important fourth part of the work.

He has been criticised for his behaviour both on and off the pitch, but has accumulated millions of pounds for various charities and also established a football academy in Sierra Leone.

Since Cuba achieved independence in 1902, successive Cuban governments have been criticised and condemned by various groups, both within Cuba and internationally, for human rights violations on the island.

Media outlets and British Muslims criticised him for his open support for various international jihadist organisations.

Much of the unsurety involves the reserve powers of the sovereign ; the relationship between the various regions of the Realm of New Zealand presently sharing the same sovereign ( the absence of these matters from republican arguments having been criticised as a " self-centredness of republican discussions in New Zealand "); and effects on the relationship between the Crown and Māori, specifically, the continued legal status of the Treaty of Waitangi and its claims and settlements.

The organisation has been criticised by persons from various sides of the conflict for not being impartial and for appeasing the parties.

Bennigsen was heavily criticised for the battle of Friedland and for the decline of discipline in the army and now retired for some years, but in the campaign of 1812 he reappeared in the army in various responsible positions.

Similarly the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness has been criticised as a front organization for various industry bodies which seek to undermine regulation of their environmentally damaging activities under the guise of ' regulatory effectiveness '.

The music video for Nikki's second single, Caramu, has been criticised for bearing similar themes and choreography to various music videos of South Korean singer, BoA.

ACM was criticised over various practices, including failing to staff the Centre adequately, and concealing evidence of child abuse.

His low ranking was criticised at the time by various Pacific Island groups, who said that National was ignoring the Pacific community.

Commercial fishing practices undertaken across Australia and New Zealand have been highly criticised in various recreational fishing magazines as being excessive.

Kirby was criticised for having a conflict of interest in his role in writing the report due to his service on the boards of directors of various private health care companies.