Sentences with phrase «at critics who»

On a cool, smoggy morning here on 25 January, Pachauri defended IPCC's work and shot back at critics who want to see him ousted as panel chair.

He struck back at critics who said they would «destroy the public schools.»

We also look at critics who review our work a lot during the year, who are familiar with the film center.

Labour leadership contender Ed Miliband will today say that it was the party's less affluent voters who lost Labour the election and hits out at his critics who have accused him of running on a ticket «pandering» to the left of the party, branding them guilty of «New Labour nostalgia».

The speaker shot back at critics who said she was unhappy being treated like an ordinary citizen.

Labour leader sets out leftwing agenda in speech that hits back at critics who say he is uninterested in winning elections

Workers would see an average of $ 5,000 in additional pay per year, said Klein, who scoffed at critics who claim that raising the minimum wage would make businesses leave the state.

Ukip leader uses conference speech to hit back at critics who accuse his party of using child abuse scandal for political purposes

Ghanaian hiplife musician, Mzbel has clapped back at critics who blasted her over her Mahama endorsement last week.

Ronaldo hails «perfect» night by Real Madrid and takes swipe at critics who claim he is having a poor season

Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera has hit back at critics who «try to invent stories» in the wake of his side's 2 - 2 draw with Leicester City.

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, struck back on Wednesday at critics who have charged tech companies with doing too little to fight off NSA surveillance.

The company also scoffed at critics who say it overspends.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Indeed, the once thriving labour - sponsored funds sector seems to be teetering on the verge of oblivion — a good thing, in the eyes of critics who claim it puts unsophisticated investors at risk and skews Canada's venture capital market toward technology sector long shots with little chance of payoff.

There is, however, a second part to the tale, which is Twitter's banning of British journalist Guy Adams, who has been a very vocal critic of NBC's coverage, at the behest of the network.

The surprise move silenced critics of the program (at least temporarily), incensed the legions of businesses who'd come to rely on it and, perhaps most importantly, told the world that Kenney — who's only been helming the prestigious jobs portfolio since July 2013 — is a man capable of enacting changes that have a massive effect on the 1.1 million employers under his jurisdiction.

The political turn for The Swift Life is particularly interesting due to the fact that the pop singer herself famously avoids taking any political stance (with some critics arguing that her neutrality is a gambit aimed at maintaining the broadest possible appeal), with Swift even declining to denounce racist supporters who call her an «Aryan goddess.»

Nintendo took a few swipes from critics at Switch's launch, who noted that the only appealing game for the system was «The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.»

But critics point to the high numbers of one - and - done players — who declare at the earliest opportunity under the rule — as evidence that the rule is not working as intended to prepare young athletes for life as an NBA player.

Buffett, a billionaire investor and outspoken critic of fund managers who profit from high fees at the expense of their clients, bet in 2007 that a Vanguard S&P 500 index fund would beat five funds of hedge funds selected by Protégé Partners over the next 10 years.

The Blinger plugs in to any electrical outlet at the point of sale and requires no additional integration with the existing POS system — a rejoinder to critics who argue mobile payment infrastructure is too costly and complex to achieve widespread penetration.

Critics contend that a lack of direction could plague small governments who are trying to beat back debt obligations while at the same time providing services to their populations.

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.

The «Late Night» host, who has been a very vocal critic of Trump, said his and President Barack Obama's mocking comments at the 2011 White House Correspondents» Association Dinner regarding Trump's potential for a presidential run stoked the businessman's decision to throw his hat in the ring.

The question is often asked by critics, isn't this just hurting American consumers who want to go out and buy washing machines or solar panels, that they're going to pay a higher price at the store when they go to do that?

When we look at the US, all we see is constant military posturing (who you will bomb next) and a lot of noise, whether from Trump or his critics.

Bricker said that despite the «outrage» and «contempt» that political critics in Ottawa routinely level at Harper, the only Canadians affected are those who already didn't like the prime minister.

«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.

At the time of the decision, some critics worried about its impact on consumers, smaller brokers, and agents who advertise on third - party sites.

Critics can not believe Obama would nominate Summers, who they say helped sow the seeds of the financial crisis while in the Clinton administration, insulted women as president of Harvard University and alienated colleagues at the White House.

And media critic Anita Sarkeesian — who left her home after her criticism of the industry's depiction of women prompted violent threats this summer — said Tuesday that she would cancel a speech at Utah State University after someone threatened a shooting at the event.

Having picked up on Nintendo's selling tactic of focusing on the players and not the screen, the company is aiming Kinect at the community of mass market non-gamers, who are more easily pleased than the hardcore critics and who don't read game reviews.

But even in Davos, which is favored by champions of globalization, there is vocal opposition to trade from critics who say it has benefited the elites at the expense of the middle class in many parts of the world.

At its core, Mueller's conservative critics point to Uranium One to bolster their case that the former FBI chief has his own complicated history with the Clintons and Russia, making him too biased to fairly and impartially investigate the man who defeated Hillary Clinton for the presidency.

Outspoken Wildrose Party MLA Derek Fildebrandt, who finds himself frequently at odds with leader Brian Jean, remains in his high - profile role as Official Opposition Finance & Treasury critic after a shuffle of critic portfolios in the Wildrose caucus this week.

Among the company's critics were officials at the Drug Enforcement Administration who said OxyContin had been a factor in hundreds of overdose deaths.

Among those who took a turn at the microphone was Nezar Hamze, South Florida executive director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, viewed as a leading activist organization by the Muslim community and as an arm of militant Islam by its critics.

For readers who have the many hours to invest in picking at tangled verbal threads in order to decode the signs and countersigns, The Orchards of Syon may yield the payoff that some critics claim to have discovered.

At the same time, it was clear that, for all their wrong - headed and occasionally malicious attacks on the Church, these ladies were giving voice to something which was also generally felt within society and particularly by younger women who knew nothing of the Network or its antics but who were not comfortable with answering the Church's critics.

It has many sources, from redaction critics who started looking at each Gospel as a whole to literary scholars like Northrop Frye and Frank Kermode who have called renewed attention to the narrative shape of biblical texts.

Hip - hop has long had critics who feel that the genre glorifies violence and hedonism — and at times it does.

A leading critic of the Articles of Confederation, the feckless league under which Americans were governed for much of the 1780s, Madison was among the first to contemplate a more far - reaching union, one that would attend more energetically to national needs while offering a measure of security to those who had suffered at the hands of local majorities.

Such exploratory questions about core Christian teachings reflect an Emergent trait that disturbs critics who see the bogeyman of theological liberalism at work.

Social critic Ernest van den Haag argues that any attempt to establish the moral wrongness of the death penalty must show that no crime ever deserves capital punishment; that is, he says, opponents of capital punishment must disprove the contention that there at least some convicted criminals who morally deserve execution.

It would have been well if those numerous critics who have taken offense at Bultmann's ideas had paid particular attention to the importance of these concluding sentences.

This inevitably makes him a loyal critic — one who is deeply committed to that element of the tradition which is creative and constructive while at the same time becoming an unflinching critic of all those forces which threaten the heart of the matter.

It is, therefore, no surprise that academic literary critics, who owe their very existence to Shakespeare and other great writers, have cast doubt upon Shakespeare's exalted position at exactly the moment in history when the societies of the West have become most anxious about their own integrity and probity.

It is Reinhold Niebuhr in the twentieth century who, standing within the Reformation tradition, has become its foremost critic precisely at the point of the struggle for justice in history.

Barton's work has drawn many critics, including Warren Throckmorton, an associate professor of psychology at Grove City College who has fact - checked some of Barton's work.