Sentences with phrase «as other critics»

As other critics have said.

In truth, it's not as disastrous as other critics have made it out to be.

One area of concern that was raised by civil rights groups, as well as other critics of the temporary regulations, last week had to do with district - wide spending and complaints that the new regulations provided a loophole that could allow districts to use money intended for disadvantaged students on those who are not.

Adam Wingard's BLAIR WITCH is not nearly as bad as other critics are making it out to be, but it did fall short of my admittedly high hopes.

As other critics ranging from Roger Ebert to random Amazon users will attest, there isn't too much that's original about the basic story in Running Scared.

There is only one prominent issue I have that stops me from labelling this film as outstanding as other critics have.

Louis Allred reviews the film «Black Swan» and he doesn't love it nearly as much as other critics.

I finally saw «Doubt» this week, and as other critics are making clear, Streep does some of her best work in the film.

Henner, as well as other critics, worries that the program could allow bidders to skip areas or regions that are remote and costly to reach, when they could potentially get broadband at a slightly lower speed.

It is unclear whether «shepherd» refers to God (as suggested by the RSV capitalization), or whether it refers to the sages (as other critics believe - e.g., Loretz).

The biggest shortcoming, as other critics have also noted, is that the iPad Air 2 doesn't bring new functionality to the iPad, such as multitasking.

Not exact matches

Trump critics quickly cheered the nameless Twitter support staffer as a hero; others laughed at the incident as one more humorous episode in a year in which politics - as - usual has become the theater of the absurd.

Harris is an outspoken critic of using engagement — as measured by screen time, click - throughs, likes, and other actions — as a metric of success.

Other critics suggest the company would be better off returning to its roots as a forestry company and rubber - boot manufacturer, or selling «actual Androids to Finnish schoolchildren.»

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.

Critics pounced, slamming the meeting as, among other things, little more than PR puffery.

Other models, including peer - to - peer lending, have demonstrated that crowd - based investments aren't as risky as critics once feared.

Similarly, she'll need to prove that she's attuned to the needs of the middle class — a feat sure to be difficult, as critics point to her ties to Wall Street and other big business interests.

His critics: De Soto titled his first book The Other Path as a deliberate counterpoint to Peru's Shining Path.

Like other prominent jerks, such as cyclist Lance Armstong, Hogan / Bollea also has a fearsome reputation for siccing lawyers on his critics.

Palin and other critics decided to label this fairly innocuous cost - cutting mechanism as «care rationing» that would let government bureaucrats decide whether or not granny gets to live (again, this is not actually true).

Even if fully autonomous cars don't work out as planned (some critics think it's a distant pipe dream), autopilot tech that aids drivers and prevents accidents is available now on Tesla EVs and other cars.

Immelt, who served in various other leadership roles at GE, came under fire by critics for poor leadership decisions as CEO that left GE cash - strapped.

Other technology companies also are expanding their payrolls as demand for their devices and online services steadily increases, but Jackson and other critics contend the industry isn't doing enough to ensure their workforces are as diverse as the rest of socOther technology companies also are expanding their payrolls as demand for their devices and online services steadily increases, but Jackson and other critics contend the industry isn't doing enough to ensure their workforces are as diverse as the rest of socother critics contend the industry isn't doing enough to ensure their workforces are as diverse as the rest of society.

«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 of the deduction argue that state and local taxes simply reflect payments for services provided by those jurisdictions and, as such, should be treated no differently than other forms of spending.

Hensarling and other Dodd - Frank critics have called that ability — known as «orderly liquidation authority» — a bailout, even though any taxpayer money used is supposed to be recouped from the sale of the company's assets or an assessment on the financial industry.

Critics point out that the open system can be gamed, especially when an incumbent's backers flock to the other party's primary to support a weaker candidate, who then ends up as the other party's nominee against the incumbent in the general election.

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.

Institutional investors aren't as reliant on proxy advisers to make voting decisions as some business groups and other critics might think, according to a new survey by consultancy Morrow Sodali Global LLC.

But critics have questioned why that $ 3 billion wasn't spent on other storm - hardening fixes, such as setting up solar - power microgrids that could have helped communities power themselves during outages.

That's given way to arguments on both sides of the aisle: Some critics say that it could help mask illicit activity, while others champion the digital trail as a way to improve transparency.

As work on a final deal advances, Belgian Finance Minister Johan Van Overtveldt and other critics have said Greece's offer depends too heavily on taxes.

Critics of Roe v. Wade have long contended that the principles used to justify abortion would soon or late be used to justify other forms of medical killing such as voluntary and, eventually, involuntary euthanasia.

Whether in Methodism, Catholicism, or numerous other communities, the bureaucratic defenders of platforms such as «Political Responsibility» routinely dismiss their critics as disgruntled «conservatives» who are unhappy about not getting their way.

Others, such as the chapter on «objections» to the claim that we can be certain of at least some moral knowledge, are written in dialogue form, opening the way for hostile critics to suggest that Budziszewski constructs and demolishes his own straw men.

Barton had written off other critics as «liberal elites,» but this was a searing attack from within the evangelical community.

Some critics say the pope should refrain from speaking about scientific matters, while others laud his letter as a major contribution to the climate change debate.

On the other hand, critics of play such as Northrop Frye have recognized that «the quality that Italian critics called Sprezzatura and that Hoby's translation of Castiglione calls «recklessness,» the sense of buoyancy or release [is] that [which] accompanies perfect discipline, when we can no longer know the dancer from the dance» (Anatomy of Criticism [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957], pp. 93 - 94).

Other critics have attempted to explain America's preoccupation with work as a reflection of her basic pragmatic, or utilitarian, outlook.

If you were really pro-life, critics say, there are other, outside - the - womb causes you would champion just as ardently.

Historical critics typically gather all evidence from within a letter that might point to a specific rhetorical situation; then, with the help of other information — when available — reconstruct the situation Paul addresses; and, finally, read the details of the letter as they fit within that reconstruction.

Other critics have doubted whether the church has much potential as a carrier of moral values.

As with other new movements in the history of the Church, the Legion and its lay association have had their share of critics.

In fact, Netflix actually said more about what the shows won't be: The shows won't be used to respond to President Trump or other Obama critics, nor will they serve as a counter to Fox News or Breitbart.com, according to a Netflix source close to the negotiations.

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

While, on the one hand, many critics of black theology regard the vision of God as God of the oppressed as an insufficiently comprehensive vision of God, Hartshorne's theism, on the other hand, must insist that the partially restrictive and partly contingent vision of God as God of the oppressed is more inclusive than any abstract vision of God as merely the universal God of all.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

I think Hamill, Donoghue, and nearly every other of the American critics who praised Angela's Ashes have equally misread the book as a chronicle of a young man's liberation from a «smothering Irish parochialism.»