In all fairness, we often criticise the referee, but he definitely made a boo-boo that day. |
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In my 21 years in this House I have never heard a member get up and criticise the personal religious and spiritual beliefs of somebody else. |
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He reckons it's a bit much to criticise what he has done when, after all, he did get most of it right. |
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Fans are finding it almost unpatriotic to criticise teams and players, or to revel in their triumphs. |
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I have included my views because to flippantly criticise without offering solutions is hopelessly and odiously hypocritical. |
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As I half anticipated, he did not wish to stick his neck out and implicitly criticise rugby. |
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Oh, and in case you are going to criticise me, Brian, these are God's words, not mine. |
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Has anyone ever heard him publicly criticise a player and ask for him to be relieved of his position in the team? |
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It equips them to communicate, to criticise, to escape, or to interpret scripture, all without the intercession of the master-class. |
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But it seems rather churlish to criticise a president for lacking vision and then to ridicule him when he tries to be visionary. |
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It seems churlish to criticise referees, but his second half performance had to be seen to be believed. |
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To criticise animation for being too perfect may seem like pedantry and it's clear that a lot of work went into the film. |
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He left the Communist Party at a later period when its Stalinist policies meant that he was told not to criticise colonialism. |
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Rather we need to constantly criticise their ideas and ours so we don't become fatheads. |
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Having expended large amounts of money on multiculturalism, they are hardly likely to criticise it. |
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Expect, too, plenty of backbenchers to step forward fearlessly to criticise the leadership. |
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They argue with each other, pick on, insult and criticise each other, and they have fun doing it as well. |
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But for me to go on about it would be to criticise the referee, and it might sound like sour grapes. |
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Rather comically, he immediately turns to criticise Bogeland on the poor quality of his inch-perfect 50 yard pass. |
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A man who dearly loved to see his side win, he was never known to criticise players when they suffered defeat. |
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As a reviewer, criticise statistical flaws only when you can explain how they specifically detract from the study. |
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How can anyone objectively criticise an event without having first-hand knowledge of it? |
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Employers criticise us for writing lines for employees who they claim are swinging the lead. |
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Perhaps we should invite those who criticise and abuse with little provocation? |
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Before you criticise our town, just stop and think of all we have to be thankful for. |
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While it was perfectly legitimate for the society to criticise the treatment choice there was not a scintilla of evidence to support their claim. |
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It's terribly easy to criticise a follow-up to a massive success but I can only be honest and say that it hardly made me laugh at all. |
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I think it would be churlish to criticise the efforts that have been made around the globe to help. |
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I want to raise two questions, not to criticise a ruling you have made but to seek your further consideration on both counts. |
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Yet I find that it's not the bilingual who criticise people like me but the Mandarin monolingual. |
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And that is the reason why in the things nearest our hearts we praise so little and criticise so lavishly. |
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For the rest of his life, Bell continued to criticise the usual theories of measurement in quantum theory. |
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There is a strong deterrent for a woman to criticise her husband for his attentiveness to her. |
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In this day and age, it's all too easy to criticise service-based industries, rather than give them credit where credit is due. |
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It may therefore seem like philosophical nit-picking if I criticise some of his arguments for getting to those conclusions. |
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Ever mindful of his training in pharmacy he did not fail to criticise what he saw as defects in The London Pharmacopoeia. |
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Also, while not wishing to criticise in the slightest, I do feel the place needs livening up just a tad. |
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It said the referee had done his best and it was easy with the benefit of sophisticated video technology and hindsight to criticise him. |
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Ideas and the right to criticise them are the litmus test of a free society. |
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The general trend is to criticise and condemn young girls who get pregnant, instead of remembering it takes two to tango. |
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We have had this blip and we do not criticise the PTA for taking us to task about it. |
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It's unfair to criticise here or to babble on about the facilities we have back home. |
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Scotland bosses refused to criticise Warwickshire publicly but privately they are fuming. |
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So, in conclusion, one might say that the answer to criticism is not to come clean but to bamboozle the oiks who criticise you. |
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On the whole, conservative Republicans have been more willing than liberal Democrats to criticise the war on marijuana. |
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We respectfully criticise the injection of the concept of the project as something that can of itself conclude the question. |
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Thus, they would criticise the Queen's feminine irresolution, female fickleness and womanly compassion towards papists and traitors. |
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I reserve the right to criticise the guy but fail to recognise anyone else's right to so do. |
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I guess it's easy to criticise America and I'm sure the UK is no better in many respects. |
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But it's very, very hard to criticise someone when your windpipe is in a reef knot from concussive laughter. |
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Do not blame, criticise or punish your child or call them dirty or babyish. |
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I think that those who criticise me have distorted what I said in the article. |
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It is easy to criticise the premarital medical examination on grounds of human rights, control, oppression, and eugenics. |
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Is it possible that he is a frustrated actor who consequently feels the need to criticise anyone with manifest abilities in this field? |
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It is all very well to criticise that action, but we need to come up with a solution by way of an alternative. |
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Why do my friends criticise me for doing up the top button of my shirt when I'm not wearing a tie? |
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Apart from a poor turning circle there's little to criticise physically, but running costs are high owing to a fairly thirsty engine. |
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I would be irresponsible to criticise all newspapers for the actions of a minority when the majority are unfeigned and responsible. |
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How can you criticise someone in such unflattering terms, and then suggest that he has what it takes to lead their party? |
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In theory, it is difficult to criticise a discovery system which enables both sides to become fully informed about the case they have to meet. |
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The ban was lifted in 2008, but the UK Border Agency challenged the decision, causing Snoop to criticise the British legal system. |
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People criticise her as being a sort of vapid, attention seeking pseudo-feminist man-hater, failing, I think, to recognise the context within which she became important. |
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Young people criticise the lack of information on labour market issues in particular. |
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I do not wish to criticise the presidency for the fact that the summit ended up being held in Brussels. |
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But after having beaten off the French and the Americans how can we criticise the Vietnamese for rejecting new attempts at colonisation? |
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He is almost unimpeachable because to criticise him is seen as poor form. |
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One of the report's more positive aspects is to criticise the idea of giving this agency the task of expelling immigrants. |
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Meanwhile her detractors loved to criticise her boring 'goody two shoes' image. |
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There is no electric display telling you of the next station, but you do get a cheery conductor who can criticise the beautiful morning, when it is raining. |
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Those who constantly criticise our work and malign the positive things we have done should bear this in mind. |
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A small minority openly criticise the authoritarianism of both the Brotherhood and the army. |
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With heads full of modernism they used rhymeless, formless verses to criticise their country and its rulers. |
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For example, we vehemently criticise the exploitation of children in these quarries but the children themselves see it as a way to make money. |
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I hope this is the last time that our group will be obliged to criticise this sort of action in such forthright terms. |
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Southampton's manager, Ronald Koeman, was loathe to criticise his goalkeeper. |
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We ought likewise to criticise the proposal in the white paper to the effect that an advisory panel should be set up to deal with irregularities. |
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Too weak, too close to government, too reluctant to criticise the agencies are some of the recurring jibes. |
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However, one does notactually need empirical evidence relating to losses in individual cases to criticise the idea of low sunk costs. |
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Does the fact to criticise its employer on the radio in bad words constitute a gross misconduct? |
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I have hardly ever agreed with what Jeremy has written, but I do think that it's wonderful that we live in a free society where we can openly criticise our leaders and rulers. |
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It is easy to criticise it, as Lilia Shevtsova does, insightfully, hereWe are dealing with two completely different ways of thinking here. |
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It also behoves us to criticise the relations between Russia and the Baltic States, which are still to be regularised. |
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One woman had the brass neck to criticise his Government for presiding over a country where social services were being cut to the bone and the minimum wage never went up. |
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That system should require the media to criticise any form of hate speech and refrain from broadcasting or printing it. |
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We know we are not a heaven-sent team, but there is no lack of effort and it is hard to criticise after drawing two and winning five of our last seven away games. |
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If anyone is being victimised in Turkey today, it is those that criticise ErdoÄŸan. |
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Whatever we may find to criticise about good old Auntie, let us pause for a moment and reflect on what we'd get if she should ever turn up her toes. |
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Some criticise this as letting property owners off the hook. |
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His hands were completely tied on this one, and those who now criticise him for doing what he was legally obliged to do are being unfair in the extreme to him. |
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They claim their cars have been clamped only a few minutes after their pay-and-display tickets have expired and criticise the clampers for refusing to negotiate. |
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It is all too easy to criticise or find fault in what others do. |
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The most common criticism is that they are snobs who criticise ordinary members of the public about their clothes and humiliate them on television. |
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We are extending the hand of friendship to countries about which there is seemingly much to criticise. |
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The QAA audit is a time-consuming and painful exercise, but few are willing to publicly criticise this unlevel playing field. |
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He did criticise them for failing to cost their plans properly. |
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For instance, trademarks are used to criticise or speak ill of another's goods and services or to protest against a company's policies. |
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They are reluctant to openly criticise the influential Mr Limbaugh, and often seem to find themselves compelled to backpedal when they do. |
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I just want to say that one should take a good look at oneself first before one begins to criticise others. |
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Should instructions be followed without reservation or is it permitted to criticise or oppose the leadership? |
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Some criticise arming groups that supported the regime of  Saddam Hussein and have even led armed actions against the Coalition forces. |
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It is in the light of this that I wish to criticise the now or never' mentality. |
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The very freedom with which they criticise their institutions is indicative of the wideness of their democracy. |
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Swiss Review: Just a few years ago, it was the done thing to criticise Switzerland. |
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Shapps, echoing Pickles, uses colourful language to criticise these papers. |
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He did not criticise his sawbones colleagues, but he thought his own countenance showed that the needle worked better than the knife. |
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Any discussion of the concept will be used to criticise and denigrate it. |
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Most authors who criticise Roman law as bitterly as they do rashly, blaspheme that of which they are ignorant. |
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Commissioner, no one will ever criticise you for having saved lives, but they will condemn you, and severely too, for having been overcautious. |
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So it really grieves me to hear members criticise such families. |
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The soft-heartedness is positively stifling: what kind of churl could criticise such a show? |
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People will find a way to criticise or dismiss disconfirming evidence to maintain their existing beliefs. |
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The Union of Writers expels members who criticise government policy and removes their works from libraries. |
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It is something that belongs to the dark ages and I believe that every civilised human being would rightly criticise what is happening. |
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Koreans who criticise the government have to be prepared to allow articles be deleted or face prosecution. |
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Many people who rose up against the regime three years ago still don't dare to publically criticise the group. Meanwhile, rebel groups continue to fight on two fronts. |
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It irks me that each time anyone dares to criticise the current unwieldy system, they are dismissed as being bitter whingers and are assumed to bear a grudge against Jane Tranter because she has rejected their scripts. |
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Following the UK Coalition Government's austerity programme Some members of the UK cabinet sought to criticise Jones. |
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Nonetheless Defoe also takes the opportunity to criticise the historic Spanish conquest of South America. |
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His Milanese physician, Maino De Maineri, did criticise the king's eating of eels as dangerous to his health in advancing years. |
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Russian authorities dismiss these claims and especially criticise Freedom House. |
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From around the spring of 1917 Asquith's reluctance to criticise the government at all began to exasperate some of his press supporters. |
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When I ventured the other day to criticise the system I was, I am afraid, misunderstood. |
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She throws wobblers if I criticise and, when she wants to go out now, she cadges money from me or her father. |
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Contrary to widespread belief, Boole never intended to criticise or disagree with the main principles of Aristotle's logic. |
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I cannot, however, forbear to criticise the Council in strong terms for their petty-minded and obstructive approach to negotiation, particularly when set against what they have made known to the world. |
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The arbitrary judicial action of proscribing a book that dares to criticise judges hardly helps the government's case, in its pleadings in Britain, that Chile's courts are capable of judging General Pinochet. |
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Revisionists say that the Middle Period dialogues enounce positive doctrines, above all the theory of Forms, which the Late dialogues criticise, reject, or simply bypass. |
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The intellectual power is to specify, to criticise and to modify. |
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I myself have on many occasions found myself in an awkward situation because of the way all the leaders of the Mediterranean countries criticise the Commission directly, accusing us of favouring Eastern Europe over them. |
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I also want to criticise the police action in Göteborg. |
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I am very disappointed indeed that Mr Persson did not take the opportunity this morning to criticise President Putin for the way in which he is repressing the media in Russia, the way in which democracy is being rolled back. |
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Likewise, China has no right to criticise American policy when its own economy remains unbalanced. America is right that China needs to revalue, but for the wrong reasons. |
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I criticise those who, when they come under pressure, choose to cut and run as the cheapest option, with no regard for the people they put out on the street. |
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Just because someone dares to criticise one of your sacred cows, you start making nasty remarks about her. |
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Western nations risk sacrificing the right to criticise other countries for human-rights abuses if they mistreat detainees or threaten to execute them, argued Chris Patten, the EU's external-relations commissioner. |
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The upstream countries regularly criticise the excessively high prices of raw energy supplies and complain that the downstream countries balk at paying their fair share of maintenance costs of the restraining dams. |
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Many parents took to Twitter to criticise the 19-year-old, who was booed by the audience, for leaving young fans waiting on a school night. |
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Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us unwilling to criticise ideas that are increasingly maladaptive and patently ridiculous. |
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They are especially reluctant to criticise liberalising reforms introduced by the Prodi government which the centre-right signally failed to adopt when it was in office. |
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He did criticise Islamophobia, but that passing comment was drowned out by the drumbeat of condemnation targeted at Muslims and their political organisations. |
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Over these three months, President Ben Ali has continued to wield the carrot and the stick at those who question his methods or who criticise the state of freedoms in his country. |
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I am not here to criticise you, but neither am I here to flatter you, so I will assess the status of three of your priorities: enlargement, transatlantic relations and foreign relations. |
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This report has vindicated the forced resignation of a sloppy, slapdash Commission and revealed a catalogue of irresponsibility by Member States who are prepared to criticise but not act on fraud and irregularities. |
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There are those who are here to criticise this research and reject it because of something that has remained unsaid and that I am going to say out loud now. |
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The crackdown prompted a rare rebuke from America, which has seemed keener of late to foster trade ties than to criticise Vietnam's human-rights record. |
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Pham Thanh Nghien has been a vocal critic of the authorities in Vietnam, publishing several essays online and appearing frequently on Radio Free Asia to criticise government violations of human rights. |
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Conservationists criticise the intensification of grouse shooting and argue that hen harriers are only killed because grouse shooters want to bag so many birds. |
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Right now, I do not want to criticise individual governments, but Europe's underlying bane is that everyone thinks they have to go their own way in isolation from everyone else. |
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Military types privately criticise the foreign ministry for wetness in dealing with Japan and the West. Recent American behaviour has fuelled the hardliners' belief that the time has come for China to flex some muscle. |
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Backbenchers continued to criticise the cost of the funeral, and No 10 continued to parry questions about it, saying figures would be published in due course. |
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To criticise him for doing so would be like scolding a dog for barking. |
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This free grandstand therefore permits children to discuss subjects relevant to them and to criticise actions that could prove ominous to their future. |
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Even if the European Social Rights Committee were to roundly criticise the UK for its non-compliance with various Articles in the Charter, this would be likely to receive very little, if any, coverage in the British press. |
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There's a sense that if you criticise Darwin you must be some kind of religious nut case. |
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It is not anti-American to criticise extraordinary rendition or to push to establish facts, particularly if there are accusations against EU Member States in this regard. |
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It is right to criticise China for its human rights record, as we criticise the United States for its use of the death penalty, Guantánamo and extraordinary rendition, but we do not have to do it every part-session. |
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It is time for Kosovo to make a clean break with this tendency to accuse people of spying or belonging to the Serbian secret services when they dare to criticise or just analyse the way Kosovo functions. |
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He is probably reluctant to give specific advice to specific countries, or publicly criticise any member country, but as it stands he is whiffing at the winds. |
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Despite questions about the aircraft's safety record being raised after the explosion, Air Commodore Baber was not removed until a few months ago – after Mr Haddon-Cave informed those he intended to criticise. |
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If I attempt to criticise myself as regards the preceding, I should say that I spoke about public space in Europe as if it were a matter of a monocultural society. |
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What we have here is an ambitious document that cocks an additional snook at those who strongly criticise Europe for not having a social dimension. |
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I do not think either that we should criticise only the small poor, destitute countries that are being blackmailed but surely also the large rich ones, the ones actually responsible for the blackmail in the first place. |
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Yet a report in the New York Times alleges that he exacts petty revenge against those who criticise him even mildly. Voters may forgive a bully if he gets things done. |
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The media is perceived to be too powerful to criticise and antagonise. |
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Scientism', as we saw, is a word used to criticise those who think that the sciences are more important than the arts for an understanding of the world, and that only a scientific methodology is intellectually acceptable. |
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Archaeologists who specialise in numismatics criticise their archaeological brethren because numismatic items are almost never published, properly excavated or recorded. |
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A law that comes into effect in Russia on Friday will place tighter controls on the blogosphere, one of the few remaining places where people can freely criticise the government. |
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I should simply like briefly to remind us all of one thing: we often visit other countries and criticise the accession countries, especially about conditions in prisons. |
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This is why it is contradictory to criticise the Commission, as certain third-party comments do, for providing only a general assessment while at the same time refusing to supply the detailed data requested. |
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Others criticise the way in which these rules are implemented and enforced, resulting in a lack of positive or negative incentives to comply or to invest in adequate compliance. |
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I do not want to criticise the delegation on the ground here. |
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It would be hard to criticise anything specific. |
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The state-owned media meanwhile continue to attack all those who criticise the government and the army, thereby endangering human rights activists. |
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Some left groups criticise the SACP for its open embrace of Zuma while calling for mass pressure on Zuma's ANC to supposedly force it to be responsive to the workers and the poor. |
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Nevertheless, a manager should also be willing and able to criticise unsatisfactory performance or attitudes by staff members in a constructive and fair manner. |
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However, it is in the nature of our organisation that in public we rarely praise the good, but instead criticise the bad, try to improve the inadequate and optimise the merely satisfactory. |
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Unfettered by the work of negotiating, these unions deploy their energies broadly to criticise every facet of Commission life, from reform to restructuring. |
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It is unsustainable, and severely damaging, for government ministers later to criticise a jurisdiction conferred with the authority of the legislature, and enhanced by the sovereign act of the same government. |
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She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig. |
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On the contrary, the Algerian diplomatic apparatus and its media friends have supported the separatist claims and criticise to the hilt the behaviour of Morocco towards the Sahraoui population. |
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More and more presidential advisers, ministers and high functionaries have added their voices to the experts and analysts who openly criticise Washington's positions and express their worries and their disappointments. |
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People criticise Wayne Rooney, he is 27, he has 80-odd caps, 36 goals. |
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It feels mean-spirited to criticise Electro Velvet too harshly for this. |
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Overprotective and unaffectionate parents who constantly criticise and exaggerate the dangers of talking to strangers may also be possible influencing factors. |
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Lord Monkswell, who had provided the women with passes to attend the debate, later apologised to the House for the incident but did not criticise the protest. |
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Moore argues that up-tight fans who are quick to criticise and urge players to launch the ball into the box as soon as possible are playing into the hands of the opposition. |
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Supporters of the Celtic hypothesis criticise the view taken in many textbooks that because there are only a few loanwords from Celtic there was no other influence. |
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On his departure, Lloyd went on to criticise the LTA and it's work. |
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According to Rorty ironists strive to criticise vocabularies that are considered final, because they constantly doubt the validity of their own final vocabularies. |
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The rule states players or officials must not denigrate or criticise another player or denigrate or criticise an official, umpire, referee or team, the paper further said. |
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One of the most persistent criticisms of the National Gallery, apart from those who criticise inadequacies of the building, has been of its conservation policy. |
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It's easy to criticise, but we should put our shoulder to the wheel and do our bit to persuade our clients to get into the sector. |
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Wu is one of those long-time friends that Lee had said he found hard to criticise. |
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This might also be when parents or other adults constantly use sarcasm, threaten, criticise, yell at or taunt a child. |
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The film uses a satirical approach, not so much to criticise, but more to sophisticatedly ignore socialist realism. |
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All of these, and plenty more besides, are reasons to criticise. |
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