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When Kinnock chose to take on his critics, he stood at the lectern at Labour conference, in the full glare of the television lights, and faced them down.

Asked why the Brown did not accept the need for a secret ballot to take on his critics once and for all, Balls said the prime minister has «got more important things to do than be diverted by a very small minority of people who have been making difficulty time and time again over the last few days».

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When Horton ran complaints made by two more unnamed critics of the CDC center on 3 March, CDC Director Thomas Frieden and the head of division under attack, Kevin De Cock, decided to take on the critics point by point, which they do in a rebuttal (PDF) that yesterday appeared online in The Lancet.

Toughness: If Chris Cerf believed in something, he would fight for it, whether that meant managing up, tussling with legislators, standing up to board members, or taking on critics far and wide.

Anticipating opposition in Congress and among industry groups, Obama took on his critics in advance, noting that past regulatory measures that cleaned up smog and acid raid were, at the time, predicted to have drastic impacts on the economy.

Not exact matches

He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

For many critics, this ad just doesn't address the problems that HTC faces — how are they going to take on Apple and Samsung in a highly competitive smartphone market?

When critics have questioned whether upstarts like Snap or Spotify can take on Facebook and Apple, Tencent has come to their defense behind the front lines and strengthened their odds.

Trump supporters recently also have taken to assailing critics of the billionaire — including some conservative journalists — on Twitter as «cuckservatives,» a term that has white nationalist implications.

So, let's take a second and genuinely thank our haters, critics and naysayers for the positive impact they have had on our lives.

In a speech at Chatham House this morning, Corbyn will take on the accusation often levelled at him by critics that he is weak on national security and defence.

After tweeting Friday that «trade wars are good, and easy to win» — a statement that flies in the face of both economics and history — he took a shot at European critics Saturday, saying: «If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S.»

Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» has received near universal acclaim from film critics (the movie currently has a 93 % on Rotten Tomatoes), but even some who have enjoyed the stop - motion film have taken issue with the director's representation of Japanese culture.

That «Anita» is Anita Sarkeesian, the cultural critic who has often taken on Gamergate and others in the misogynist world of online gaming.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has shown an ounce more willingness to take sides in his attempts to combat racist and sexist harassment on his service, recently conducting a purge of accounts associated with the so - called alt - right movement — a move critics described as sorely overdue.

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

With critics blasting CKE's treatment of employees, Puzder has taken to blocking labor advocacy groups on Twitter, BuzzFeed reported.

Travis Kalanick, co-founder and CEO of ride - hailing service Uber, said Wednesday he's going to take as long as possible to go public — responding to critics and stressing he's focused on product and innovation, not liquidity.

Critics point out that bitcoin in its present form can process just seven transactions per second, whereas a large credit - card company like Visa can comfortably take on tens of thousands.

Critics accused her of focusing on strategies individual women could take to get ahead at large corporations, at the expense of acknowledging sexism throughout society.

Insurance giant UnitedHealthcare is taking a page out of a competitor's playbook to crack down on emergency room claims that critics say will be harmful to patients and hospitals.

When Mr. Icahn took on the advisory position this year, critics complained that it was a conflict of interest because he owns a big stake in an oil - refinery business called CVR Energy.

«Although promising to take immediate action on the recommendations made by the Missing Women's Inquiry, we've seen little substantive action from the B.C. Liberal government,» said New Democrat women's critic Maurine Karagianis.

The joke on me was that «I like the book for all the reasons the writer says its evil,» and that's probably true, but there's an important point I've taken away from the document: having paying customers speaks louder than critics.

First Lady Melania Trump tackled her first ever cyberbullying event on Tuesday, giving critics another chance to suggest that she's the last person who should be taking on such an initiative when her husband, President Donald Trump, continues to attack people on Twitter.

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.

Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

Teresa Hairston, the owner of Gospel Today, went on the magazine's website and took critics head - on.

The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office by Ethan Anthony W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $ 60 Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

Critics called Bethke's take on religion overly simplistic and dangerous.

Origen took on the rumor, reported by the pagan critic Celsus, that Jesus had been ugly.

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.

Like it or not, economists have come to dominate the public discussion, and even broadminded public critics have taken on the debate in their terms.

It would take a complete lyrical analysis to show that every song on the album is haunted by the shadow of the cross, but a closer reading of the song «The Only Thing» should suffice to open the door to an interpretation the critics miss.

After it was published I experienced what literary critics often point out, that any work of art — a poem, a painting, even a book of theology — quickly escapes its creator's hand and takes on a life of its own.

But, where mainstream critics took issue with an uneven script, Focus on the Family's «Plugged In Online» took issue with the main character's actions not being up the Boy Scout code of conduct.

The more radical and on the whole more competent critics took the position that Jesus expected momentarily the decisive act of God which would suddenly inaugurate the new age of righteousness and peace.

One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.

He might have offended his critics less if he had more often used the analogy he gave James G. Blaine when explaining his course on Reconstruction: â $ ˜The pilots on our Western rivers steer from point to point as they call itâ $» setting the course of the boat no further than they can see; and that is all I propose to myself in this great problem.â $ ™ â $ œBoth statements suggest Lincolnâ $ ™ s reluctance to take the initiative and make bold plans; he preferred to respond to the actions of others.

Ozick dissents, must dissent: Artists and critics live symbiotically (whether they might ever be synonymous is the subject taken up in essays on «Monsters» — Henry James, Leo Baeck, Harold Bloom) and together create literary culture.

critics called Jesus» take on his faith «overly simplistic and dangerous», too.

«We also take more seriously the right of the small sheep - owners in big forests to continue to live «where they belong» on a traditional level as ecologically on a higher level than their urban critics» («Encouraging» 54).

Just remember: The first to take on Jesus as a psychologist, though not as a medically trained psychopathologist, was the German scholar and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the greatest critics of Christianity (who ended up suffering an irreversible mental breakdown himself) People do not willingly die for a lie.

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.

In conflict situations, the «chaplain» role comes under heated attack from «the other side,» and the church is accused of «taking sides,» The mediator role is often attacked by critics on both sides.

But shouldn't critics of «the judicial usurpation of politics» take at least some comfort in the fact that the error was on the side of democracy, as it were?

Beauregard's Shakespearean take on theological controversy recently, I was struck by how closely Touchstone's catalogue of evasion tracks the dodgeball played by those who criticize the critics of Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation on marriage, Amoris Laetitia, but who never engage the substance of the criticisms.

She was referring to the «take» on ratatouille that Remy made (his own version) to serve the food critic!