Sentences with phrase «by detractors as»

The federal estate tax has also been named by detractors as a «death tax» which is a purported reason why it was created, to prevent family dynasties from perpetuating as in feudal times.

The shortcut, referred to by its detractors as «vanity publishing» is where writers self - publish their manuscripts.

Darren Aronofsky's cinema of excess, in which sensation often trumps logic, coherence, or taste, is spoken of by detractors as catastrophically boneheaded and by partisans as thrillingly physical.

March 22, 2012 • Wal - Mart has become the latest food retailer to announce that it's making changes after listening to customer concerns about lean finely textured beef, known by detractors as «pink slime.»

Moore's typically prickly demeanor, often cited by her detractors as her biggest liability as an actress, actually works to her advantage here, as she unearths the voracious ambition in Jordan's soul.

This was the last straw that broke the Camel's back which fetched the outspoken senator the phantom allegation of conspiracy to commit crime instigated politically by his detractors as the General Katsina Usman government house in Kaduna.

«The international drug control conventions are often portrayed by their detractors as instruments of prohibition and punishment.

Not exact matches

Schapiro said it is difficult to understand how the proposal will ultimately be received by the SEC, as it has its supporters and detractors within the commission.

The detractors have heralded the lack of definitive policy platforms by Kenney as a weakness when in fact it is exactly how Grassroots involvement is supposed to work.

ITC's decision came on the same day when Mr.Obama took steps to control companies that buy and enforce patents rather than making their own products and services known as patent trolls by their detractors.

I should clarify the PPS as pertaining to Julie's detractors (if the whole threat - by - PM thing is still going on).

So glad we didn't all just go away and STFU as suggested (in not so many words) by the detractors earlier on!

By the time this column appears, the harsh winds of winter may already have scattered the demonstrators to their several lairs and subdued the clamor of their detractors, so this may come across as an exercise in l'esprit d'escalier.

But readers of Last Temptation and fans of Superstar are struck by how attractive Magdalene is despite her detractors, even when, as in Kazantzakis's case, they are her creators.

While one can not set foot on the campus without reckoning with the chapel, the religious detractors among us easily dismiss it as a relic of days gone by.

In terms of «selling» islam as a «religion of peace,» muslims, by their resistance to change, become their own worst detractors.

As I watched the tumult, I was frequently as put off by what my would - be defenders said as I was by what my detractors attackeAs I watched the tumult, I was frequently as put off by what my would - be defenders said as I was by what my detractors attackeas put off by what my would - be defenders said as I was by what my detractors attackeas I was by what my detractors attacked.

If the manager now thinks that he's put paid to his detractors by pulling off a feat against Spurs, and surrounds himself in the comforts of that one performance and goes back to the «business as usual» approach like at Watford and Stoke, and......... some of the players also take that view.

Now this, I think, is where many of the club's detractors, and of course Wenger's too, simply overlook a simple and obvious fact — the majority of the top clubs, and some of those in the second tier, from whom we want to buy relevant top players, are owned by incredibly rich men, known as oligarchs for a good reason, or bottomless money pits, known as state - owned clubs, and we all know who they are, simply do not need the money, however much is offered.

Previously, Blind has been looked upon almost as a luxury defender by his detractors.

Suffice it to say, the new mandate hasn't made anybody happy and has garnered plenty of vocal detractors (and rightly so), from US Lacrosse, the sport's national governing body (which, among other things, called the mandate «irresponsible» and premature), to coaches (who don't see the flimsy headband approved by FHSAA — what one longtime game official told The Times looked «more like a thick bandana» — as serving any purpose and no more than a «costly distraction to parents and the players»), to game officials (one told The Times that the only effect the headgear was having on the game was to cause delays because the headbands were prone to falling off) to the athletes themselves, who say all it does is get in the way of their goggles.

While Cameron's detractors clearly intend this portrayal as an insult, it does seem worth concluding by pointing out that, even if we choose to accept this characterisation, there does seem to be something rather conservative about it.

Before our congress could even begin, Luqman encouraged by detractors of the union appointed himself as president because he lacks the courage and temerity to stand for elections.

Although he lashed out at the «racist vans» as they have been dubbed by detractors, by taking a swipe at the Home Office's latest immigration policy, and calling the vans «so silly — more than silly, unsettling», and «aimlessly driving around in a poster van saying «can you please perhaps go home?»

It is also often referred to as a «scientific dictatorship» by detractors.

Disqualified presidential nominee for the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Henry Herbert Lartey described as «petty», claims by former President Jerry Rawlings that the GCPP's petition for investigations for fraud is being sponsored by detractors of the Rawlingses.

Taken as a whole, the proposals seemed geared to appease Mr. Cuomo's detractors on the left in his party, who have been upset by the governor's pace on issues like campaign finance reform and public financing of elections, and by his lackadaisical support of Democrats in the State Senate.

[8] This was portrayed as a demotion by his detractors, although Prime Minister David Cameron denied this was the case.

Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina said in a statement Thursday that Buhari could not have derided all Nigerian youths as claimed by his detractors.

Finally, in a development that stunned even her harshest detractors, Mikovits was handcuffed in her home by police on December 4 and booked at the Ventura County jail as a «fugitive from [Nevada] justice.»

In his yak - track with producer Matthew Vaughn, Ritchie ducks the negative attention he and his wife received inasmuch as one can, although he confides that he thought Swept Away would go down well with Madonna in the lead — especially with her detractors, as a dislike of the pop chanteuse is sanctioned by the picture's first half.

It also had very few detractors, where as other movies could be dismissed by people as too boring («Lincoln»), too light («Silver Linings Playbook»), too indie («Beasts of the Southern Wild»), or too controversial («Zero Dark Thirty»).

Even detractors will praise the performance by Brady Corbet, an interesting actor indeed, one perhaps destined to play more sociopathic roles as he did in «Funny Games» — a cold, amoral person who nonetheless knows how to succeed with women, at least at first.

You've already had a little barbed critical comment about the portrayal and the broken English spoken by the Hong Chau character, Matt Damon's Vietnamese love interest — is this really a «white saviour» film, as the detractors are trying to paint it?

Whatever anyone may think of her tenure as D.C. school's chief, and she had many detractors, she would most certainly have never allowed standards to vary by ethnicity.

Detractors will point to flat or slightly declining scores in the past two NAEP tests, preceded by big pre-Common Core increases in 2009 and 2011, as evidence Common Core was a mistake.

Detractors of the EMH also point to events such as the 1987 stock market crash, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell by over 20 % in a single day, as evidence that stock prices can seriously deviate from their fair values.

Our global government core exposure was a slight detractor in January as our core rate exposure was negatively impacted by a general move higher in interest rates.

Some trainers will state emphatically that they do not use certain tools (their choice), and will go so far as to insinuate that anyone who uses tools such as training collars or electronic collars (called «shock» collars by their detractors) is inhumane or abusive.

Created by a modder named Khyrin, the recently released PC - only patch is being used to support detractor's claims that Fallout 3 is just a gun - equipped version of Oblivion, as both Bethesda - branded games were built on the same graphics engine.

She lampooned both the machismo of the art world and the way artists were expected to promote themselves in a market - driven system by exposing herself, with a dildo between her legs, in a 1974 Artforum advertisement that she paid for, earning her as many fans as detractors.

Owens's detractors, by contrast, dismiss her as being both too hip and too coy by half.

Tiny homes and micro-apartments may have their detractors, but it's becoming clear that as society's socio - economic fabric is changing, more and more young people are seeing the disadvantages of being bogged down by debt, wasteful habits and a conventional home in the suburbs stuffed to the gills with «stuff».

Re: # 46 The factcheck.org item strikes me as a good - faith attempt at balance that fell prey to the usual journalistic pitfall; that is, it poses on one side the IPCC consensus view and on the other individual detractors like Patrick Michaels (citing 3 blog entries by him, no less — not peer - reviewed papers).

Detractors of post-normal science, conversely, see it as a method of trying to argue for a given set of actions despite a lack of evidence for them, and as a method of trying to stifle opposing voices calling for caution by accusing them of hidden biases.

There is a history of those in power attempting to placate their detractors by encouraging an «official venue» for discussion as a distraction technique.

As I mentioned previously, the recent IPCC report has plenty of detractors and failed to mention the issue of melting methyl hydrates and methane emissions from melting permafrost, over strong objections, which the June, 2013 IEA - WEO follow - up climate change report did include when it forecast a 3.6 - 5.3 degree Celsius jump in average global temperatures by 2100.

While commuters with bikes they rely on might hardly feel the $ 8 per month charge, changing bike parking infrastructure from a city - supplied free feature to a pay - as - you - go and thus more elitist system is sure to have its detractors, and can be counter productive to encouraging as many cyclists to commute by bike as possible.

This is why the European Union has adopted its regulation (EU) no 524/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on online dispute resolution for consumer disputes and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2009 / 22 / EC (Regulation on consumer ODR, and why mandatory ODR, no matter how it could be perceived by detractors, needs to be looked at seriously as a way of giving access to justice to those who, for now, can't turn to the courts since the costs associated with the legal process are simply prohibitive...

-- State Bar of Arizona In related alerts, Kelly / Warner has discussed its concerns associated with individuals fraudulently obtaining court orders to remove information from the internet, as well as the exploitation of this concern by the firm's detractors.