Sentences with phrase «time at critic»

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Hart was on the investigative Senate committee that looked into CIA abuses in the 1970s, and became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the spy establishment — just as Richard Nixon was secretly battling the CIA, the Pentagon, and corporate interests at the time that the Watergate scandal began to undo his presidency.

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.

He's sifted through recommendations from book critics at the Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Newsday, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and the Wall Street Journal to find the books recommended by multiple experts.

Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos said at the Television Critics Association press tour that the company wasn't in the market for a true - crime series at the time it picked up «Making a Murderer,» but he was impressed by the filmmakers.

Those investment plans were met with suspicion by critics at a time when Qatar is embroiled in the region's worst diplomatic crisis in years and is locked in an airspace rights dispute with three other Gulf states.

The company was worth about $ 5 billion in 2000, just before Jobs unleashed Apple's groundbreaking «digital lifestyle» strategy, understood at the time by few critics.

What critics said: «An effectively creepy and at times gut - wrenching take on the pandemic genre.»

[LAUGHTER] And Charles Chaplin was doing the moderation and he was the critic for the Los Angeles Times at that time.

Critics, like Izabella Kaminska, a writer at the Financial Times, have disparaged it as a «Ponzi machine.»

Critics of the proposal say proponents are trying to abandon the country at a time when California's resources would be even more greatly needed.»

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.

«Boy it takes courage, because in India probably more than other countries — maybe with the exemption of France — everybody is a critic at times,» said Chambers.

Some critics also question why Priceline is moving into the online meta - search market at a time when one of its rivals, Expedia (EXPE), last December exited this niche with the spinoff of its TripAdvisor business.

For my part, I hope that senior editors at the Times will listen to Spayd rather than her critics.

«Rogue» was well - received positively by critics at the time, but was unfortunately overshadowed by its prettier sibling in «Unity.»

«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.

They've also been unrestrained, and at times brutally direct, in calling out hypocrisy and challenging their critics.

At the same time, some critics of this new system argue that the fragmented nature of American equity markets poses systemic risks for the economy.

Critics of the Labor Department's rule have argued that requiring advisors to serve as fiduciaries to the small and midsize plan market will negatively affect access to 401 (k) plans at a time when policymakers at the federal and state level are crafting and passing legislation intended to broaden access to retirement savings for employees of small employers.

YV: I've known him since late 2010, because I was a prominent critic of the government at the time, even though I was close to it once upon a time.

David Eby, the New Democrat critic for advanced education and the MLA for Vancouver - Point Grey issued the following statement in response to sexual violence on UBC campus: «At a time when women's safe access to campus is under threat, everyone,...

Your critics most likely will «get it» at that time in their lives as well, and I hope they will have a Kerry to comfort them and exhibit love, that only can come from God.

Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

Marcel - Jacques Dubois, this most Israeli of traditionalist Catholic theologians, yet received at the same time almost as passionate a critic.

Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times, a cohost of a popular television movie review program, emerged as a major supporter of Kids after interviewing director Larry Clark at Cannes.

At Harvard, it's still about the school's anti-discrimination policy — but this time, critics complain that only Christians can lead the Christian organization.

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.

But the fact is» or at least our firm judgment is» that on most of the great issues of that time, C&C was right and its critics were usually wrong.

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

The fourth season is the one that split critics because it was 15, 30 - minute episodes that each focused on one character and all took place at the same time.

At times, some Protestant critics have denied that these are actual words of Jesus, though the tendency today is to see them as genuine.

It's a lively volume with contributions by Terry Teachout (drama critic for the Wall Street Journal), Carol Iannone (editor of Academic Questions), and Asia himself (a distinguished composer and professor of composition at U of A), among others, and they all get to the heart of the problem of high culture at the present time in America.

Only The Times report was something of a throwback to the old kneejerk Popeknocking days: «Critics,» wrote one Richard Owen, «said that putting a Ratzinger - Bertone alliance at the top of the Vatican hierarchy meant that the Church would be in the hands of «arch-conservatives» at a time when many Catholics, especially in the Third World, are calling forreform.»

The challenge by Christian critics of Hinduism — Radhakrishnan's own faith — impelled him at the time of his student - days at Madras to «make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it.»

Despite the thorough thrashing the two books received at the hand of critics, both became best sellers — which raises the not insensitive question of why Americans pay so much attention to the New York Times best sellers list.

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.

In his Introduction to the subsequent definitive draft of the Psalms in German, Luther expounded their method again and threw out a challenge: «We praised the principle of at times retaining the words quite literally, and at other times rendering only the meaning... if my critics are so tremendously learned and want to display their skill, I wish they would take that single and very common little Hebrew word, chen, and give me a good translation of it.

In «My Search for Truth,» the moving autobiographical sketch which he contributed to a volume entitled Religion in Transition (1937), he reports how the challenge by Christian critics of Hinduism, his own faith, impelled him at the time of his student - days at Madras to «make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it.

At the same time, form critics remind us that any interpretation must take into account the confessional form of the story, that is, its present structure, intent, and emphasis as derived from its cultic use, as imparted from its repeated recitation throughout Israel's generations on the occasion of the annual celebration of the great deliverance.

Popularizations often have this effect, but Bloom is a major figure and a serious literary critic (jacket - cover blurbs rightly identify him as «America's pre-eminent literary critic» and «the critic of our time»), so in trying to comprehend the level of the argument I found myself opting at times for disingenuousness, bombast or simple ignorance of the field of biblical studies.

1For the meaning I wish «tradition» to have, consider MacIntyre's definition: «A tradition is an argument extended through time in which certain fundamental agreements are defined and redefined in terms of two kinds of conflict: those with critics and enemies external to the tradition who reject all or at least parts of those fundamental agreements, and those internal, interpretative debates through which the meaning and rationale of the fundamental agreements come to be expressed and by whose progress a tradition is Constituted.»

That attention comes at a particularly apt time, as feminist critics argue that society tends to discourage «nurturing» attitudes in favor of the «domination» stance that runs through Bacon and Descartes, and seems inescapably built in to modern pragmatism.

Nonetheless, music, as literary and cultural critic George Steiner insists, «is brimful of meanings which will not translate into logical structures or verbal expression... Music is at once cerebral in the highest degree — I repeat that the energies and form - relations in the playing of a quartet, in the interactions of voice and instrument are among the most complex events known to man — and it is at the same time somatic, carnal and a searching out of resonances in our bodies at levels deeper than will or consciousness.»

At the same time there is much in the teaching of Jesus in the fourth gospel which all critics would allow to have an authentic ring.

He reflects carefully on the basic dilemma» that defending democracy and its rights and liberties may require an abrogation of at least some of those rights and liberties, at least for some persons and for a limited time» and he explicitly sets out to make a moral argument rather than the legal and political - theory arguments favored among critics of the war on terror.

The second critic of the liberal quest who must concern us is Martin Kähler, whose work Der sogennante historische Jesus und der geschichtliche, biblische Christus (ET The So - called Historical Jesus and the Historic, Biblical Christ) was practically ignored at the time of its publication in 1892, but has since been recognized as a major contribution to the discussion.

Some critics at the time charged Lincoln with violating rights of private property and of thus contradicting the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott.

The announcement comes at a time when critics are speculating about the future of the lake.

As New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells wrote last spring, «For its lightness, brightness, beauty, and elegance, my single meal at L'Arpège was in an eye - opening class by itself.»