Sentences with phrase «as the critic said»

And whatever financial problems schools are having this year might be exacerbated next year as critics say Cuomo's spending proposal calls for essentially eliminating future increases in a key aid category.

Trump's attack on Gillibrand sparked a fierce backlash, as critics said the president made an outlandish and sexually suggestive accusation against the Senate's foremost fighter against sexual harassment.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gives subsidies to GE as critics say the mega-firm is refusing to eliminate its cancer - causing pollution in the Hudson River.

Spilia4 0 As a critic said» It's not a bad First Person Shooter, but for a Resistance entry, one finds it somewhat lacking».

Wasn't sure I would like it as much as the critics said but I did.

As the critic said, it was not bad — just not great.

Nonetheless, this year the Memphis school district adopted a version of D.C.'s classroom observation method, one that reform advocates hail as revolutionary even as some critics say it stifles teacher creativity.

Mazda has the potential to increase CX - 9 sales by 50 % if shoppers find the car as good as the critics say.

The graphics arent as terrible as the critics say nor are they amazing as a die hard Samurai Shodown fan would say.

Not exact matches

Critics point to her lack of a trip to Wisconsin following the party conventions as proof that she did not take the idea of potentially losing those crucial states seriously, but Clinton said that idea is without merit, saying «we didn't ignore those states.»

Critics of Clinton's campaign strategy have said her efforts (or lack thereof) in those three states — traditional Democratic strongholds that were carried by President Donald Trump — highlighted the Democratic presidential nominee's biggest problems as a candidate.

And it is in this outer rim of the Internet, critics say, that special deals, such as the one Comcast and Netflix made, could proliferate and ultimately affect consumer access.

Critics say the profit centers and the «spreadsheet games,» as PBM auditor Susan Hayes calls them, have changed.

The volatility of bitcoin has made it more useful as a vehicle for speculation than as a currency, say critics — when the value can change drastically from hour to hour, it introduces undesirable risk for sellers and buyers alike.

Critics of C - 11 have said the DRM protection isn't required by treaties such as WIPO and that it's just being pushed by U.S. entertainment companies.

(Adidas Group bought Reebok in 2006 for $ 3.8 billion; in recent years some critics said it should sell it off, but now the company has positioned Reebok as a fitness brand, and the brand's sales were up 5 % in 2014 globally.)

Critics say a focus on engagement as the paramount metric and on connecting people as an end in itself are what made Facebook such a powerful medium for disinformation.

The law, seen as a test - case in Europe's effort to rein in harmful social media content, has caused some speech to be removed unfairly, critics say.

Still, this perk has stirred some controversy and critics say it may send the message that motherhood as a liability to success in one's career.

Instead, there's a patchwork of state laws serving as the legal framework that critics say invites abuse and potential manipulation.

He says Adidas needs to «reset» everywhere, not just in the U.S. Evaluating the brand, Liedtke is as brutal as the critics, acknowledging that young athletes aren't looking to the three stripes the way they did a decade or two ago.

Critics of PropOrNot, like Fortune's Mathew Ingram and Katrina van den Heuvel of The Nation, say the group sacrifices credibility by remaining anonymous and has flagged a number of well - regarded news sites as propaganda.

Bremmer is an unapologetic globalist (as am I.) But in his new book: Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, he says that critics who focus on Trump «and ignore the underlying emergencies that lifted him to the White House... exacerbate the American problem of us vs. them.»

«In earlier days she probably had just as many fans,» says Robert Lloyd, TV critic for the Los Angeles Times.

Speaking from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Nassetta said that his own conversations with Trump and his team have not led him to believe that the new administration is against free trade, as some critics have insinuated.

The company has responded with statements saying that it's not as dependent on drug price increases as critics have claimed; it has also pointed out that while attention has focused on changes in list prices for drugs, those prices don't reflect the actual cost for insurers, governments and other group purchasers, which typically receive discounts that aren't publicly disclosed.

The CEO of the Arcadia Group said that many critics used his business as a «battering ram» following the Bengali factory collapse.

Philip Green, the CEO of the Arcadia Group which owns Topshop, has said that many commentators and critics used his business as a «battering ram» following the factory collapse in Bangladesh earlier this year.

«RRSPs are a terrible tool for small business people, and that's why many don't use them,» Ottawa MP Pierre Poilievre, newly minted Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's pick as finance critic, said in an interview.

White House officials tout the appointment of US Attorney John Huber as basically a second special counsel on the FBI investigation but some conservative critics say his appointment is nothing more than window - dressing, the Hill reports.

The company's rapid expansion under Josef Ackermann as a global investment bank saddled it with an unwieldy structure and a culture of excessive risk - taking, critics say.

The humor was lost on Washington Post critic Michael O'Sullivan, who said that the movie «stinks like the un-refrigerated ham its studio sent me as a promotion several months ago.»

Originalism's critics say judges should treat the Constitution as a living, breathing document that's able to encompass society's evolving values.

Critics have said the program provides a misguided tax subsidy to coastal and river valley property owners, encouraging development in flood - prone, often environmentally sensitive areas such as wetlands.

Critics have cited his past controversies and well - known platform as host of «The Jerry Springer Show» as a distraction, saying Democrats already had numerous qualified candidates seeking the position.

Critics say the images often unfairly portray the person as dangerous or deserving of extrajudicial punishment, rather than a fully realized person with a meaningful life.

What critics said: «In a summer movie landscape with Spider - Man, a simian army waging further battle for the planet and Charlize Theron as a sexy Cold War - era superspy, it says something that one of the most compelling characters is Al Gore.»

What critics said: «Even those of us who regard the Marvel aesthetic as a plague on world cinema can find much in Spider - Man: Homecoming to be charmed by.»

Meanwhile, one of Washington's most powerful lobby groups and CFPB critics, the Chamber of Commerce, said it will «consider every approach to address our concerns,» which many interpreted as a threat to sue.

Critics of the restraints such as Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, say there is no valid safety reason for the prohibitions.

Critics scoffed at Musk's vision as he was building the Model S; but Fisher said the team at Tesla deserved credit for delivering a car with very few flaws.

Travis Kalanick, co-founder and CEO of ride - hailing service Uber, said Wednesday he's going to take as long as possible to go public — responding to critics and stressing he's focused on product and innovation, not liquidity.

What critics said: «Perfectly acceptable as an action movie but inspired as a comedy — which is probably where the Thor franchise should have been aiming from the start.»

Critics say the proposal makes ambitious claims, such as being able to process millions of transactions per second, without explaining how.

Ahlborn says the team has decided that the best route is one that goes in as straight a line as possible in order to prevent the high - speed twists and turns from turning the Hyperloop into what one critic called a «barf ride.»

«Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion,» said Harper, who was at the time constitutional affairs critic for Reform.

Critics also say that Bitcoin doesn't solve any problems ordinary users actually have, and that disadvantages such as the currency's fluctuating value and its propensity toward scams will make it unappealing to the vast majority of ordinary customers.

I asked her about reports that her government is planning to raise Alberta's $ 15 per tonne carbon price to $ 40 per tonne as a means to getting American approval for the pipeline project — a price that environmental critics say would be still too low.

Critics say the proposed label language is so vague that residents would ultimately have little new information to go on, and that food costs could rise as companies substitute more expensive non-genetically modified ingredients to avoid the labeling requirement.

Known as Cfius, the committee reviews foreign takeovers of American companies, but critics say that its scope does not include smaller deals and that it has other weak spots.