noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a storm of criticism
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A storm of criticism forced the government to withdraw the proposal.
constructive criticism
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We welcome any constructive criticism .
counter an argument/an allegation/a criticism etc
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He was determined to counter the bribery allegations.
criticism
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If the criticism is valid, you should make the appropriate changes.
deflect criticism
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The committee is seeking to deflect criticism by blaming me.
dismiss criticism
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He dismissed criticism of the country's human rights record.
expose yourself to ridicule/criticism etc (= say or do something that may make people laugh at you, criticize you etc )
fierce attack/opposition/criticism etc
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The government’s policies came under fierce attack.
harsh criticism/treatment/punishment etc
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His theory met with harsh criticism from colleagues.
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the harsh measures taken against the protesters
implicit criticism/threat/assumption
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Her words contained an implicit threat.
incisive remarks/criticism etc
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Her questions were well-formulated and incisive.
literary criticism (= the study of the methods used in writing literature )
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literary criticism
mounting criticism
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The government has come under mounting criticism in the press.
open to criticism
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The magazine’s editor is open to criticism in allowing the article to be printed.
provoke criticism
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The introduction of the tax provoked widespread criticism.
vehement opposition/criticism/hostility etc
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Despite vehement opposition, the Act became law.
widespread support/acceptance/criticism/condemnation etc
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There was widespread support for the war.
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The storm caused widespread damage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
constructive
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To express constructive criticism and voice well researched concerns is of course healthy and legitimate.
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I hope Dee takes it as constructive criticism .
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Once the purely factual purpose of the system becomes assimilated, resistance to, and fear of, constructive criticism should weaken.
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Clearly, though, the best way to improve your presentation skills is through practice and constructive criticism , hardly new concepts.
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It's no use being offended by constructive criticisms .
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Mr Kinnock will want Mr Prescott's national executive support - and may sometimes even need his constructive criticism .
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Never a word of constructive criticism .
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Serving officers who attempt constructive criticism of the police, risk being labelled traitors and put their promotion prospects in jeopardy.
fierce
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Mr Powell, 44, came in for fierce criticism when he replaced Terry Wogan with the £10 million drama.
harsh
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A harsh criticism , perhaps, since Laura was no longer running the factories on a daily basis.
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She too endured harsh criticism and partisan pressure for becoming openly involved in public affairs.
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That is a harsh criticism since the Employment Secretary is a woman.
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It is odd that these harsh criticisms were issued before the guidelines were completed and publicly declared.
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Britta had anticipated harsh design criticism but the fashion buyers and the press are pleasantly surprised.
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Timmy says much the same thing but with less diplomacy, writing that harsh criticism and negativity are pulling the team apart.
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In fact, the bigger the wins, the harsher the criticism is likely to be.
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He knew that most people respond better to encouragement than to harsh criticism .
literary
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The literature of opera includes plenty of criticism , much of it as intellectually impressive as the best literary criticism.
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In literary criticism , the idea of the postmodern has scarcely taken hold at all.
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Not only sociology and cultural anthropology but even a field like literary criticism increasingly becomes infested with the jargon of empirical addiction.
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In all about fifty articles could be classed as literary criticism .
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This is literary criticism as we have since come to know it.
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Yet, literary criticism , past as well as present, desires a fixed text.
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Traditionally, literary criticism has paid little attention to questions of precise historical contextualisation.
main
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The main criticism seems to be that he wanted to change things, forms of service and such like.
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Its main weapon was criticism , organized daily through compulsory debates in every workplace.
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Find at least three main areas of criticism of your performance on the job.
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Its main criticism is that they do not take into account the effects of the war on the region's ecosystem.
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The main criticism of the argument from analogy is that these two assumptions are inconsistent.
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The main criticism was lack of richness: a Christmas pudding is only as good as its ingredients and any skimping is clearly apparent.
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Within this paradigm, the two main criticisms levelled at mainstream Hollywood films are tokenism and homophobia.
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The main criticism is that the papacy should not be concerned with temporal matters at all.
major
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One major criticism of the air quality management strategy relates to its use of air quality standards.
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Lévi-Strauss therefore makes three major criticisms of Sartre's concept of history.
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The two major criticisms aimed at Farc are that it recruits children and that it carries out acts of random violence.
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The major criticism of this approach is that it assumes that all information about the organisation is kept in documents.
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Results show that lack of product knowledge by staff was a major criticism .
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One major criticism of many of the major schemes is that they do not subdivide subjects according to consistent characteristics.
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The community charge or poll tax is open to two major criticisms .
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The ethogenic approach is open to two major criticisms .
open
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The validity of the promise may be accepted: the insufficiency of the performance is open to criticism .
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Note that this method is open to the criticisms made of statistical methods above.
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In a very real sense the concept of a Commissioner is open to criticism .
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Like anyone else who writes, she is open to criticism .
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Instead, once again, he has left himself open to more criticism .
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Where the courts were open to criticism was in that they were prejudiced - in favour of Athens and in favour of democracy.
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Both these enterprises are open to criticism on three fronts.
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These very norms, rules and standards are themselves open to rational criticism .
public
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For the bureaucracy itself, Marx noted how a Bonapartist regime virtually eliminated the risk of public scrutiny and criticism .
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Second, a principal consideration in responding to public criticism is profit and loss.
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The union settled, in the face of the Government's public criticisms , for a fifteen percent pay rise.
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As the public criticism mounted, Johnson fought back with predictions that victory was just around the corner.
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These provided a forum and focus for public criticism of officialdom.
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He accompanied his resignation with biting public criticisms of the dictatorial style of the Prime Minister.
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Within days, in the face of public criticism , this had been cut back to £ 1.2m.
severe
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Light satire of people's habits contrasts sharply with the severe social criticism with which the text is larded.
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This encouraged providers to cream off the easiest to serve, and led to severe criticism .
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Despite severe criticism , the newspaper conducted a poll in 1980 into the paranormal beliefs and experiences of its readers.
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Another difficulty is that the various methods of measuring the lag are subject to severe criticisms .
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The most severe criticism was that wind pressure on the huge rotors could capsize the ship.
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Bush came in for severe criticism , first for encouraging the coup, then for failing to support it.
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By the early 1980s the Commission had been coming under increasingly severe criticism from conservationists and others.
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At first glance it was much like the original, but the most severe criticisms of the original were successfully addressed.
sharp
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Hart has attracted some sharp criticism , especially from Otago and southern parts of the South Island.
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That measure drew sharp criticism from Gov.
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The sharpest criticism levelled was that the collection amounted to little more than a reshuffling.
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But while Mr Mitterrand won praise and respect abroad, he often drew sharp criticism at home, especially from conservative commentators.
strong
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I want to develop the stronger thesis that criticism is the essence of higher education.
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Her decision drew strong criticism from environmental groups, nuclear non-proliferation activists and some members of Congress.
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The failure to agree on definite targets brought strong criticism from environmentalists.
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I intend to file a very strong criticism of your teaching methods.
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But, though they have never been overruled, they have attracted strong adverse criticism .
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A stronger criticism of the use of objectives can be made on ethical grounds.
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Bernstein's work has come in for some strong criticism recently.
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Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately.
valid
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Accepting criticism Accepting valid criticism is also part of this group of assertive actions.
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But neither do we have to be defensive if they occasionally have a valid criticism .
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Its tone is playful and frivolous but it makes some valid criticisms .
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There are, however, a number of valid criticisms which can be made of the study.
widespread
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In response to widespread criticism , Kadhafi strongly attacked corruption and favouritism in the government administration.
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Her allegations have touched off widespread criticism of Albert Hale in the Navajo Nation.
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This follows widespread criticism of the Bush Administration's scepticism at international conferences so far.
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Nevertheless, there was widespread criticism that the relief operation was slow and badly organized.
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The death sentences attracted widespread international criticism , and several government leaders made appeals for clemency.
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Despite widespread criticism , the trend is on the increase in the Five Nations Championship.
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There was widespread criticism of the handling of the disaster.
■ NOUN
art
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As art criticism , it has the merit of making a judgement, though description and interpretation may be meagre.
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After the first two chapters, it discusses where and how to read art criticism .
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The guards on the frontiers between art history and art criticism shoot neither intruders nor escapers.
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Finally it is safe to predict that in any catalogue there will be more information than art criticism .
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The library user who looks for books of art criticism is not necessarily going to have an easy task.
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Sontag's attack on interpretation was two-pronged and aimed at both works of art and art criticism .
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Nor will a history of art criticism be attempted.
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To put the matter in a slightly different way, reading art criticism is a preparation for an aesthetic event.
mounting
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The response to mounting criticism is to reorganise or complain of lack of resources.
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The government's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform.
■ VERB
accept
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Rowbotham accepts without criticism Horney's reduction of the unconscious to basic needs, which presupposes a psychological subject of those needs.
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Nor do I accept the criticism of those who say this is a lightweight view of the divine purpose of humankind.
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Government seems to have accepted that criticism .
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Mr Howie does not, but seems to have accepted that the criticism has ruined his board's plans.
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When you accept criticism from some one you also build a relationship with that other person.
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But equally they have to be in a position to justify openly what they do and to accept constructive criticism .
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Very few people know how to accept criticism .
answer
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Natural justice requires that a firm should have an opportunity to answer any criticism before a decision is made.
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The meeting was called to answer criticisms and make mid-course corrections.
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The organiser can't be traced to answer the criticisms .
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The programme then conducted an experiment to answer these criticisms .
attract
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To be fair we have also been offered the chance of revising articles which attracted substantial justifiable criticism .
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Both policies attracted sharp Republican criticism .
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Tories are also conscious that the image of Unionism is such that any agreement would attract inevitable criticism from opposition parties.
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Hart has attracted some sharp criticism , especially from Otago and southern parts of the South Island.
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For instance, the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign.
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The death sentences attracted widespread international criticism , and several government leaders made appeals for clemency.
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But, though they have never been overruled, they have attracted strong adverse criticism .
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This would attract even more criticism .
avoid
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They could not avoid criticism but they could usually ignore it.
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Children may improve their behaviour to avoid disapproval, criticism or the loss of privileges.
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What I think is more debatable is how successfully the method can in practice avoid the following criticisms .
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This is to avoid the type of criticism which may have repercussions on the team member's status or salary.
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I think we as writers should respect and be grateful for the efforts of our peers to avoid destructive or insensitive criticism .
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By controlling me they believed that they were avoiding my criticism of them as parents.
come
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By the early 1980s the Commission had been coming under increasingly severe criticism from conservationists and others.
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Bush came in for severe criticism , first for encouraging the coup, then for failing to support it.
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Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party.
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In recent years, the field has come under criticism for moving ahead too quickly, jeopardizing patients.
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The Sinclair Spectrum came in for particular criticism .
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The run defense also came under criticism after the Broncos rushed for 152 yards, averaging 6. 1 a carry.
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The Court of Appeal has struggled to reconcile the two decisions but has come in for criticism .
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While his foreign policy was winning praise abroad, Gorbachev was coming under growing criticism at home.
deflect
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The Central Authority were, however, able to continue to deflect this criticism .
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While helping Johnson to deflect criticism from conservatives, Hoover expanded the mission of his agency in the domestic arena.
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He frequently attempted to deflect criticism of his administration and personal life by characterizing such allegations as the product of white racism.
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The newly appointed finance minister, Wataru Kubo, is expected to deflect opposition criticism over the housing lender bailout.
direct
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If Tebbit wished to attack bias as such he should have directed his criticism at the press rather than television.
draw
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O'Leary was elected chairman and he immediately drew criticism on the committee.
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That measure drew sharp criticism from Gov.
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The influential role played by President Francesco Cossiga in events leading to Andreotti's resignation drew criticism from some political quarters.
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But while Mr Mitterrand won praise and respect abroad, he often drew sharp criticism at home, especially from conservative commentators.
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A parallel is drawn with criticism of a company's accounts by the Financial Reporting Review Panel.
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The urban renewal administrative process drew considerable criticism because it was so long and encumbered with red tape.
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Greenpeace has in the past campaigned against the Faroese whale hunt, drawing vehement criticism from the islanders.
face
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When the bid was launched last week, Mr Franklin faced some criticism from City commentators on both those counts.
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But the company has in the past faced criticism .
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Mr Hague faced criticism of his promise last October to cut taxes even if the economy entered a recession.
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But Yeltsin faced new criticism from his political rivals.
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The Poor Law was facing criticism from a range of sources.
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The government had also faced criticism over its slowness in implementing economic reforms.
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Although homosexuality is no longer against the law, homosexuals still face a good deal of criticism and stigma.
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It is apparent that the proposed code faces detailed criticism , and the effect of non-compliance on company results is unquantifiable.
follow
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The review follows persistent criticism that the Press Council is an ineffective body which commands little respect.
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Vice Chairman Christopher Steffen quit unexpectedly in December following long-running criticism of his performance.
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The move follows criticism by leading local government officials and academics.
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This follows widespread criticism of the Bush Administration's scepticism at international conferences so far.
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This new problem calls for the invention of new hypotheses, followed by renewed criticism and testing.
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They depend on volunteers and have a high turnover following any criticism of their activities or decisions.
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However, even these success stories put forward by some participants were quickly followed by specific criticisms from other participants.
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The Government has announced a sweeping review of the centuries-old coroners' system following Lord Clarke's criticisms .
increase
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There was also increasing criticism of de Gaulle's policies.
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Other candidates also have increased their criticism of Forbes in recent weeks.
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Nevertheless, Kasparov is coming under increasing criticism from his supporters for his stubborn adherence to the Grunfeld Defence.
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At this time, however, the Jacksonians were suffering increasing criticism for their inability to end the war.
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The United States administration meanwhile came under increasing congressional criticism for its failure to take a position on the situation in Zaïre.
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To blunt the increasing criticism of the new rates, the four council members quickly abandoned their support for the lift charges.
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In recent years, there has been increasing criticism of the view that professionals provide valuable services to society.
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By the late 1980s, however, the system came under increasing criticism from domestic and foreign-owned exporters.
level
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Even Mrs Thatcher levelled criticism at the lack of compartment privacy, but the policy against compartments was now firmly established.
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Conservationists have levelled a series of criticisms at the basic ground rules of these cost-benefit studies.
meet
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For its part, Golkar met criticism of its ineffectual performance in national politics by adopting a more assertive image.
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In order to meet some of these criticisms penalties and targets were abolished in 1986.
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Great achievements require confidence and always meet with criticism , often with derision.
provoke
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The proposal provoked a storm of criticism that it was racist from immigration groups and campaigners on behalf of ethnic minorities.
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That action provoked heavy criticism and deep divisions within the cancer community.
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The announcement provoked a storm of criticism and anxious residents voiced concern over their uncertain future.
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As it was Britain's shift to protectionism and Imperial Preference provoked much criticism from Washington.
receive
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Yet the Franks have received criticism for including a lot of songs dedicated fans will already own.
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But Larson, a four-star admiral, also will receive criticism .
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The basic neoclassical approach to demand has received substantial criticism even within the economics profession.
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Gerald Ratner received much criticism and there were calls for his resignation at the company's agm.
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In this environment it is perhaps surprising that the early factories should have received such hostile criticism .
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This objectification and fragmentation received criticism at the time.
respond
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He was responding to criticism by Cleveland County Council's Labour group.
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Second, a principal consideration in responding to public criticism is profit and loss.
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Not surprisingly, companies respond to its criticisms .
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All councils will have to respond in public to criticism from auditors.
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The papacy did not respond well to this criticism of Hadrian, and Leo retaliated sharply in 798.
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I hope that the Minister of State will respond positively to my criticisms .
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How do you respond to criticism or instructions?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hail of criticism/abuse etc
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Oliver Stone, operating under a hail of criticism, was finishing a revisionist movie about the Kennedy assassination.
answer criticism/charges/accusations etc
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Avon and Somerset Police have summonsed Redknapp to appear in court to answer charges of alleged abusive conduct.
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His finance minister was busy answering charges of bribery.
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In particular non-disclosure makes it difficult to answer charges that the government's policies are not properly coordinated.
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The meeting was called to answer criticisms and make mid-course corrections.
be above suspicion/reproach/criticism etc
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The motives were above reproach since a large sum was raised for deserving charities every year.
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You must be above suspicion of any impropriety.
blistering attack/criticism etc
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Bates also launched a blistering attack on the sports minister Kate Hoey.
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The most humiliating thing for Mr Major was not the fact that it was Mr Lamont who made the blistering attack.
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The religious press in the first decade of pentecostal history teems with blistering attacks on the new movement.
come in for criticism/blame/scrutiny
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Thompson came in for sharp criticism from women's groups.
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Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party.
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NTOs have come in for criticism for failing to make significant strides in plugging the skills gap.
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The Belfry came in for criticism with some newspapers saying it was no place to stage a match of this importance.
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The Court of Appeal has struggled to reconcile the two decisions but has come in for criticism.
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The patient's colour, face and body features as well as pulse and tongue will also come in for scrutiny.
level criticism/charges/accusations etc at/against sb
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Even Mrs Thatcher levelled criticism at the lack of compartment privacy, but the policy against compartments was now firmly established.
valid reason/argument/criticism etc
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A 1977 Supreme Court ruling permits police stopping a car for valid reasons to order drivers to exit.
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A second and equally valid argument is that the publishing world is an invaluable source of knowledge.
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Accepting criticism Accepting valid criticism is also part of this group of assertive actions.
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But a complete justification of authority has to do more than to provide valid reasons for its acceptance.
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But neither do we have to be defensive if they occasionally have a valid criticism.
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But there are also valid reasons for optimism.
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No serious thinker can make a valid argument that to discriminate based on species is acceptable.
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Povert drudgery and loneliness are valid reasons for sadness; beyond and beneath, far outreaching them all, is unrequited love.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bill's very sensitive to any kind of criticism .
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Graham's criticisms have no basis in fact.
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Taylor has come in for a lot of criticism for his part in the affair.
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The government faces severe criticism for its slow response to the disaster.
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The report makes many criticisms of the nation's prison system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But these are minor criticisms for a job well done.
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However, in adult life, Ian finds he can not take criticism .
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I have found criticism to be a deeply enriching, but not always comfortable exploration of the text of Scripture.
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In a sense, the very institution of literary criticism is concrete testimony of this assumption.
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Later he responded in a similar way to D. H. Lawrence's criticism , as well as to his creative achievement.
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The 7,000 delegates were handpicked for loyalty, and did not utter a word of criticism .
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The union settled, in the face of the Government's public criticisms, for a fifteen percent pay rise.