Lactantius criticized Diocletian for an excessive increase in troop sizes, declaring that " each of the four strove to have a far larger number of troops than previous emperors had when they were governing the state alone ".

The Socialist Party ( PS ) and the Communist Party ( PCF ) criticized a " state affair " and a " barter " with a " Rogue state ".

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Uniform Guidelines are also influential in guiding personnel selection although they have been criticized as outdated when compared to the current state of knowledge in I – O psychology.

Rousseau criticized Hobbes for asserting that since man in the " state of nature.

He criticized the tendency for delegates to cater to the particular interests of their constituents, even if such interests were destructive to the state at large.

A public outcry criticized governments at the local, state, and federal levels, citing that preparation and response was neither fast nor adequate.

Others criticized it as an " English invention ", although Rayleigh jokingly corrected them to state it was actually an invention of the Royal Institution.

'" In 1966, he took the microphone in front of 300 sports club guests and criticized the state of distance running in Finland, reproaching the sports executives as publicity seekers and tourists, and demanding the athletes to sacrifice everything in order to accomplish something.

Moreover, further debate about colonialism, which is linked to immigration, continued in France ; historian Benjamin Stora noted that colonialism is an important " memory " stake influencing how communities, and the nation, itself, represent themselves, because official state history has accepted French historic crimes and errors with great difficulty ; the historian Olivier LeCour Grandmaison also criticized the 23 February 2005 law.

Davis's claim has been criticized, particularly the suggestion that Haitian witch doctors can keep " zombies " in a state of pharmacologically induced trance for many years.

In 1976, he briefly reentered the public spotlight and engendered controversy with anti-Zionist statements that called for the United States to withdraw its support for the state of Israel, citing Israel's allegedly bad treatment of Christians, as well as what Gerald Ford publicly criticized as " unsavory remarks about Jews.

Clearly he had arrived at this conclusion before he landed in Boston in 1631 because he criticized the Massachusetts Bay system immediately for mixing church and state.

With the backing of Emperor Shenzong ( 1067 – 1085 ), Wang Anshi severely criticized the educational system and state bureaucracy.

During the following period, he was constantly criticized by his opponents and Western countries for an autocratic style of administration, lack of respect for democracy, misuse of state media for propaganda, corruption ( which is still prevalent today ) and the shady privatisation of national companies that occurred during his rule.

This practice has been criticized as the state promotion of red lining practices.

Republican state chairman Wirt Yerger, a businessman from Jackson, criticized Eastland for missing key votes in the Senate while undertaking political duties.

British missionary William Ward criticized the worship of the lingam ( along with virtually all other Indian religious rituals ) in his influential 1815 book A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos, calling it " the last state of degradation to which human nature can be driven ", and stating that its symbolism was " too gross, even when refined as much as possible, to meet the public eye.

The Gaullist government, however, was criticized for its heavy-handedness: while elections were free, the state had a monopoly on radio and TV broadcasting and sought to have its point of view on events imposed ( this monopoly was not absolute, however, since there were radio stations transmitting from nearby countries specifically for the benefit of the French ).

These differences in usage are criticized on two grounds: one, that they reflect a biased state of society, and two, that they help to uphold that state.

Aristotle criticized the practical utilitarian approach of Hippodamus and implicated the inherent tension in rewarding individuals for doing good ; i. e. that by rewarding individuals for doing good, the individuals will do good for the reward over the benefit of the state.

Papon had begun writing his memoirs before his death ; he criticized Chirac's official recognition of the involvement of the French state in the Holocaust.

Some anarchists ( usually social anarchists ) have advocated forms of direct democracy as an alternative to the centralized state and capitalism ; however, others ( such as individualist anarchists ) have criticized direct democracy and democracy in general for ignoring the rights of the minority, and instead have advocated a form of consensus decision-making.

The use of such a standard by the University of North Dakota has been criticized by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education in the case of Caleb Warner, who was suspended for three years in January 2010 on the basis of a report by a complainant who was subsequently charged with filing a false report by state police, a decision which the University has refused to reconsider.

The inexperienced Guy led the Frankish army against Saladin's incursions into the kingdom, but neither side made any real gains, and Guy was criticized by his opponents for not striking against Saladin when he had the chance.

He also criticized the proposal for League economic sanctions because it would be ineffectual and that " It is all a question of real military preponderance ".

He criticized Whorf's examples from an objectivist view of language holding that languages are principally meant to represent events in the real world and that even though different languages express these ideas in different ways, the meanings of such expressions and therefore the thoughts of the speaker are equivalent.

A prominent example of a Magic Realist writer who points to Surrealism as an early influence is Alejo Carpentier who also later criticized Surrealism's dilineation between real and unreal as not representing the true South American experience.

Glass and Willis criticized all forms of “ illiquid loans ” including bank real estate lending.

Until 2005, Victoria was the only state which required players to have a long-arm firearm licence ; a law which was criticized on the grounds it drew players to real firearms.

Several American academics have criticized the United States Constitution for specific shortcomings and have called for a Second Constitutional Convention, including University of Texas constitutional law expert Sanford Levinson, University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato, University of Kentucky professor Richard Labunski, Vanderbilt University professor Dana D. Nelson, and Yale University professor Robert A. Dahl, although professor Dahl believes there is no real hope that such a Convention might ever happen.

This test has also been criticized by scientists for being cruel and inaccurate, subjective, over-sensitive, and failing to reflect human exposures in the real world.

By contrast an anonymous 1881 review in the Peoria Journal said: “ they have lost the wild rhythms, the barbaric melody, the passion …. hey smack of the North ….” Some fifty years later, Zora Neale Hurston in her 1938 book The Sanctified Church criticized Fisk singers, and similar groups at Tuskegee and Hampton, as using a " Glee Club style " that was " full of musicians ' tricks " not to be found in the original Negro spirituals, urging readers to visit an " unfashionable Negro church " to experience real Negro spirituals.

The husband was initially unwilling to fight Tajōmaru, saying he would not risk his life for a spoiled woman, but the woman then criticized both him and Tajōmaru, saying they were not real men and that a real man would fight for a woman's love.

The Australian politician Alexander Downer criticized Jagland for awarding the prize to Obama, and described Jagland as " a real party-political player " and " a fool ".

Born's interpretation of the wavefunction was criticized by Schrödinger, who had previously attempted to interpret it in real physical terms, but Albert Einstein's response became one of the earliest and most famous assertions that quantum mechanics is incomplete:

In 1851, Arthur Schopenhauer criticized Schelling's absolute identity of the subjective and the objective, or of the ideal and the real.

This was fiercely criticized by Marx and the Young Hegelians, who claimed that Hegel had gone too far in defending his abstract conception of " absolute Reason " and had failed to notice the " real " — i. e. undesirable and irrational — life conditions of the working class.

Journalist Drosnin's books have been criticized by some who believe that the Bible Code is real but that it cannot predict the future.

A third part, El Eternauta, Tercera Parte, published in 1983 was met with moderate success, and was criticized for being just another sci-fi comic instead of a real continuation of the series.

In the face of the tremendous poverty, corruption and disillusionment with conventional politics, the political ideal of the Islamic state has been criticized by many espousing liberal movements within Islam and for example by Ziauddin Sardar, as being utopian and not offering real solutions.

In contrast, Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams criticized her character as an example of the constantly kidnapped female in Japanese cinema, further " diluted " by her existence solely as a computer-generated character representing " an ideal, cinematic female character that has no real referent ".

Academics are sometimes criticized as lacking practical experience and thus too insulated from the ' real world.

Jäckel charged that Fest was guilty of diverting attention away from the issues by attacking Habermas's motives in criticizing Nolte, and not with concerning himself with what Habermas had to say Jäckel maintained that the Holocaust was indeed a " singular " historical event and criticized Fest for claiming otherwise Mommsen accused Fest of subordinating history to his right-wing politics in his defence of Nolte Mommsen went on to accuse Fest of simply ignoring the real issues such as the " psychological and institutional mechanisms " that explain why the German people accepted the Holocaust by accepting Nolte's claim of a " causal nexus " between Communism and fascism.

The Columbia Journalism Review criticized Time for publishing a correction that implied that the quotation might be real, despite admitting that no source could be found for it.

He criticized the " creepy subtext " between Shugo and Rena, calling them " clingier and more over-affectionate than any real life siblings should be ".

As already mentioned, the song was particularly criticized vaffanculo: it is a real Masini outburst against his detractors, who set him a corrupter of youth, a loser, a pessimist, a singer who brings depression.

Singh would go on to claim that he had dictated The Tiger's Fang to Twitchell on the inner planes, and then criticized it because it was made up of dream experiences rather than real spiritual experiences.