Sentences with phrase «early critic of»

Pimentel also was an early critic of grain - based ethanol fuel production.

[Update: The artist notes that the title of this work comes from a blog post by Wagner, who should get credit as an early critic of the Joannou show.]

She was an early critic of the experiment in Ethiopia but was amazed by the disabled - camera incident.

Professor Ellen Brantlin of Indiana University was an early critic of standards based education reform (SBR).

«There are authentic dietary supplements — multivitamins, calcium, iron — which do supplement the diet» and can help many people, says rheumatologist and immuno - logist Donald Marcus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, an early critic of the supplement industry.

Councilman Rory I. Lancman, a Queens Democrat and early critic of Ms. Mark - Viverito who now counts himself an admirer, said it was helpful to have a speaker relatively liberated from short - term politics.

A brave and early critic of Gordon Brown, she stood up to New Labour while the big boys of the business world were still sucking up.

He was an early critic of Maoist China, and in The Hall of Uselessness one finds a number of essays criticizing the craven and myopic enthusiasm of French intellectuals for communist China.

In a fairly bold statement about what digital publishing brings to books, Shavani essentially agrees that technology is not the death of books, as some early critics of e-reading and the broader instant access to self - publishing through ebooks have claimed.

Chief among the early critics of the G - 8 effort was IPCC chairman Pachauri, who praised the «aspirational goal» on temperature but criticized the G - 8 for not spelling out what sorts of specific, deep cuts in emissions member countries were willing to take.

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.

Citron, Kickstart readers will remember, is the firm that waged a long battle against Herbalife (which it called a «ponzi scheme») and made a fortune betting against Valeant Pharmaceuticals, of whose management and accounting practices it was an early (and very loud) critic.

Though Oracle's critics have complained over the years about Ellison's tendency to promise a product prematurely, or sacrifice quality for early delivery, he clearly understands the benefit of first - mover advantage.

FPG — Getty ImagesA portrait of American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson, circa 1925.

Startups who hold off on publishing sometimes cite the need to protect intellectual property, but critics of the practice point to another reason: With early - stage capital already hard to come by, companies run the risk of scaring off investors if they open their underbaked ideas to rigorous scientific scrutiny.

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.

When details of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace of the artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women from her Destiny's Child days.

A decade after his retirement from the Foreign Service, Kennan became an early and outspoken critic of the war in Vietnam.

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.

Critics said that by starting Black Friday early, the chains robbed employees of a holiday spent with family.

He joined the social networking site earlier this year, updating followers on his guitar practice and posting a picture of himself doing the Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but he also attempted to engage his critics, with mixed success.

When critics of the TPP conflate their criticism of that pact with their criticism of «free trade,» they miss an essential element of the TPP that has disaffected many otherwise loyal supporters of earlier - generation agreements that truly focus on deregulation of «trade» per se, he notes.

«Just off the top of my head I'd say that she absolutely is the most famous living porn star, and even more famous than dead ones like Linda Lovelace and John Holmes,» said Jared Rutter, the former chairman of the X-Rated Critics Organization, who has been in the adult industry since the early»70s and remains a senior contributor to AVN magazine.

New Democrat defence critic Jack Harris accused the government of not only keeping the public in the dark, but watchdogs such as the parliamentary budget office, which had a tough time compiling its own estimate on the war earlier this winter.

It's an important early test of Trudeau's economic policies: Resist the bailout request, and he'll go a long way to silencing critics who've claimed he can't be trusted with the nation's finances; cave to Bombardier's demands, and his new government will be born into the original sin of corporate welfare.

MILESTONES: AZERBAIJAN By Justin Keay Baku: Enjoying the fruits of Azerbaijan's mineral wealth Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections in early November ended in controversy, with critics claiming the opposition parties were prevented from being able to properly challenge Yeni Azerbaijan,...

Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections in early November ended in controversy, with critics claiming the opposition parties were prevented from being able to properly challenge Yeni Azerbaijan, the party of the authoritarian president Ilham Aliyev.

Among those critics are some of Facebook's earliest executives.

This work helped Protestant and Catholic scholars break out of tired, polemical post-Reformation patterns of interpretation (which were greatly reinforced by earlier, supposedly «scientific» Protestant historical critics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries).

I can't speak for James Kugel, who as I observed in my essay tends to overdraw the contrast between what we can reliably know historically (as opposed to the often agenda - driven projects of modern critics) and the ways in which the Bible was read in the earlier traditions.

Menomena jumped the gates early in January 2007 releasing their amazing second full - length record Friend and Foe easily garnering the title «The First Great Record of 2007» by fans and critics alike.

Everybody, even Bible critics, now agree that the earliest movements of people and nations is accurately recorded in Genesis 10.

What is more important, the earlier critics did less than justice to the fact that the Bible has its own doctrine about the nature of history, which deserves to be understood and appreciated in itself.

To begin with, there was the narrative of Jesus» death — the longest continuous narrative in the traditions about him and the earliest to take fixed form, according to modern form critics.

If for example the Christian Gospels are considered by themselves without any background of definite belief, or any authoritative norm of interpretation, all sorts of meanings can be put upon the bare words, the more so if the critic is ready and willing to make the early disciples of Christ neurotics, hysterics, or downright liars as the occasion may demand.

As his friend and critic Stephen Spender has observed, Auden's stance in his early poetry is that of a diagnostician: he describes the symptoms of the social and spiritual problems of the age and prescribes love as the proper cure.

Earlier, Joe uses the story of Mary and Martha to defend Van Slaag from his critics.

In the West many critics assume modernism to have won out over the positivisms of the early 20th century.

Critics such as James Burtchaell, whose book The Dying of the Light was reviewed in these pages by Ralph C. Wood (February 3 - 10), have simply not indicated realistically how, in the face of massive changes in society, church and human knowledge, church - related colleges could have maintained their traditional church - relatedness in all its 19th - or early 20th - century glory.

Despite a seemingly misleading survey from a faith - based group attempting to show that Christians disapproved of the film (without even seeing it), early screenings of Noah are getting solid feedback from some Christian critics.

In response to his critics, Kuhn has added a Postscript in the second edition of his book, and has written several essays, in which he clarifies his earlier views and at some points significantly modifies them.

Its date can not be determined, nor is there any wide agreement about it among critics, but it is (in my judgment) not likely to be any earlier than Luke's history of the Beginnings.

critics tended on the whole to say: strip off the interpretation so far as possible; it only tells us what some early Christians thought or believed; the residue will be plain matter of fact.

Doubts about the religious adequacy of Whitehead's treatment of evil were raised very early by critics of process thought.

What has functioned authoritatively in the church from early times, and still so functions today, is not the changing reconstructions of the critics, but the established contents of the canon.

Yours truly reported earlier that the voices of Islam's Western critics caused the most problems for controversial comic.

Unlike many other critics of modernity, Heidegger was not nostalgic for earlier eras.

Paul's conversion, or at least the beginning of his missionary career, can hardly be dated as early as the majority of critics are inclined to place it.

If Kramer experienced any sort of honeymoon in his early days as a cultural critic, however, it didn't last long.

(If a considerable number of Psalms go back to the prophetic period or earlier, as some modern critics hold (in opposition to the view which prevailed thirty years ago), then there is additional support for the view that there was no such radical change from collective to individual conceptions at the Exile as has often been asserted.