Sentences with phrase «used against critics»

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Critics were quick to use that story as ammunition against the affable politician.

In July, Zenefits filed a motion to dismiss, citing California's anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) statute, aimed at preventing the use of legal action to censor critics.

This genie is now out of the bottle, though, and there are sure to be repercussions, as critics use his own remarks against him.

Fittingly, even before Ramsey came out against the rule, one of his critics called for using the rule against Ramsey, supposedly for providing advice said critic deemed harmful to savers.

They are rarely used, and most people groan when you get to the genealogies of Scripture in their Bible reading, but they are often some of the passages in the Bible which help defend it from the frequent attacks that are leveled against the Bible by it's critics.

When this text was used against Christians, Paul confounded his critics by embracingit.

But, it does seem to me that the sectarianism and divisiveness we see in the «Christian» world does little to advance the kingdom of God and gives ample fodder for critics to feed on and use against us.

* Republican governors watch automated production process * Say campaign against «pink slime» unwarranted scare SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb., March 29 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the U.S. beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

Pushing back against her critics, Melania Trump said Tuesday she's committed to fighting cyberbullying despite the knocks she's gotten for taking on the issue when her husband regularly uses Twitter to berate his foes and call them names.

The current Labour Party is not a protest movement against the right anymore, as critics used to suggest.

Trump, who has called for an increased use of stop - and - frisk across the country, was a frequent defender of Kelly against critics of his policing practices.

He used the position cannily, building a base in the party unencumbered by ministerial office, charting a course of what he would term «independent loyalty» — never dissing the leader, but voting against # 9k tuition fees and the bedroom tax — yet which critics inside the party label «ambitious expediency».

But critics said they could be used to discriminate against gays.

One could take Davis, who is the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, to task on the same grounds used by critics against Rachel Carson, whose book, Silent Spring, launched the modern environmental movement: Davis unabashedly makes the case against toxins and their health toll without presenting the other point of view.

Critic Consensus: You're the Worst uses clever writing — and its stars» palpable chemistry — to balance comedic elements against its realistically pessimistic tone.

With just three features under his belt, filmmaker J.C. Chandor has won critics over with his clever writing and directing and his ability to use a cast against expectations.

A film designed to be the fiery response to critics of his combative style is his most pandering (in the first section Solondz uses a red square to obscure a violent (but consensual) sex act, a flaccid pre-emptive strike against the MPAA) and, in the end, his most fearful and apologetic.

Private critics screenings are, of course, held at the pleasure of the company, but other journalists objected to Disney using that privilege as a cudgel against a newspaper simply for reporting a story.

(The film has a 78 % on Rotten Tomatoes and 65 out of 100 on Metacritic; neither are bad numbers, of course, and this column has recently pointed out the shakiness of using these critic - aggregation websites as the foundation of an argument against Pixar's perceived decline.

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

Critics have questioned the validity of value - added and warned against using it for high - stakes decisions.

Critics of policies pushed by the Obama administration and many state policymakers — such as adopting the Common Core, revamping teacher evaluation and expanding charter schools — may seize on the latest NAEP results, but researchers warn against using national test scores to judge specific policies, a practice sometimes called «misNAEPery.»

Both math and reading scores declined for first time since the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) took its current form in 1998, according to data released by the National Assessment Governing Board on Wednesday, and Common Core watchers say the many critics of the standards could use the dip as ammunition in their war against the Common Core.

And not just the criticism of games as a concept, but the very particular kind embodied by younger critics used to come up against conventional thinking about games and writing.

It marked an art critic's leap 150 years into the past, and it inverted the very valuations that he had used to defend high - modernist formalism against Minimalists.

Renowned as an artist, writer, critic, television host, filmmaker and educator, over the past 60 years O'Doherty has invoked various identities in pursuit of his art, most notably Patrick Ireland, the artistic alias he adopted in 1972 and used for 36 years, as a patriotic protest against Bloody Sunday.

Nouveau Realisme (New Realism) Term coined in 1960 by the French critic Pierre Restany for art derived partly from Dada and Surrealism, which reacted against more abstract work, especially by using industrial and everyday objects to make junk art or sculpture.

In other words, even if he loses this round, Mann will dare his critics to be the next one to use the F word against his work and thereby risk having to go through the time and expense of defending themselves against a Mann lawsuit.

Another problem with Weitzman's approach — as Nordhaus, among other critics, has pointed out — is that it could be used to justify aggressive actions against several catastrophic risks, including asteroids, rogue artificial intelligence developments, and bio ‐ weapons.

SLAPP stands for strategic litigation against public participation and are used by large corporations to silence their critics and prevent them from protesting, thus denying fundamental democratic rights.

The Charkaoui case has been yet another one pointed to by critics of the shoddy research and baseless allegations used against vulnerable populations, who repeatedly are determined innocent by the courts.

Plenty of critics have blasted The League's exclusionary model that effectively discriminates against people from lower socio - economic classes by using people's jobs and colleges as admission criteria.

Waters and other critics have used Trump's own words against Carson.