CRITICIZE


Meaning of CRITICIZE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

heavily criticized

The report was heavily criticized in the press.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

also

Former Prime Minister Jan Olszewski was also criticized .

Bennett also criticized Gingrich for his handling of a controversy surrounding Jackson and Rep.

The opposition parties had also criticized other aspects of the electoral law.

Norton also criticized the control board for studying whether the city should put a city manager at the helm.

The report also criticizes Nirex for seeking to rush through its proposals without proper public consultation and expert examination.

He was also criticized for employing a staff member who made inappropriate comments about a committee witness's religion.

It also criticized the electricity companies for failing to take the lead in developing alternative energy sources.

Also criticized was the second woman who claimed Albert assaulted her.

heavily

It is important to note that for a variety of reasons clauses of this kind have been heavily criticized .

Bozeman was heavily criticized for replacing Campanelli.

The larger estates were heavily criticized for absent or late provision of social and community facilities.

often

That neutrality is often criticized as hypocritical: all manner of metaphysical conclusions-as above-are usually taken as gospel.

publicly

Two senior investigators into Stasi connections were dismissed in early March after publicly criticizing the government's exoneration of De Maizière.

Can a teacher be dismissed for publicly criticizing school policy?

Trovoada had been under increasing popular pressure to take action against Daio after the latter publicly criticized him on April 3.

Can teachers be disciplined for publicly criticizing their immediate superiors?

Miller resigned abruptly after Hallinan publicly criticized her for failing to report the incident to him in a timely manner.

But he had been on the bad side of the government lately, having publicly criticized it for censoring authors.

roundly

Pena was roundly criticized by senators who lectured him about public grandstanding and insufficient attention to safety concerns.

The slickly produced pamphlet listed numerous general goals but offered little in the way of specifics and has been roundly criticized .

severely

In 1972 he had suggested independence as Ulster's best course and been severely criticized by Paisley and others.

As the war dragged on with little success, he was severely criticized .

sharply

The planting has been sharply criticized by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds because of the effect on local bird life.

Yet the president is sharply criticized for convening a national forum to discuss our racial divisions.

The change has been sharply criticized by environmentalists.

Reno has been criticized sharply by congressional Republicans for her failure to name an independent counsel.

Matiukhin sharply criticized Gaidar's team and expressed disagreement with the government's budget commission.

In the morning, he sharply criticized Jones for maverick marketing policies and accused him of trying to tear down the league.

E was later sharply criticized by the Public Utilities Commission and politicians such as state Sen.

strongly

This part of the Act has been strongly criticized and to some extent misused for a minority of very difficult cases.

Former president Nixon strongly criticized Bush for failing to respond to the crisis in the republics with a massive aid program.

Weber strongly criticized Marx's attempt to explain all social cleavages as the product of economically based class structures and struggles.

It had also been strongly criticized by the tobacco industry.

Parsons has been strongly criticized on all these points.

Social services departments were strongly criticized in the 1980s for not taking more effective action to protect children at risk.

It was strongly criticized by a majority of the Congress and by both business and the trade unions.

In the 1960s and 1970s, psychologists strongly criticized the discipline's predominantly middle-class constitution.

widely

The target has been widely criticized as too low.

This money is not usually distributed on a truly competitive basis, a process that is widely criticized .

Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred.

The King was also widely criticized for in effect putting his conscience above his role as head of state.

The budget was widely criticized as being unrealistic and irrelevant to the real needs of the eastern economy.

■ NOUN

administration

He also criticized the Blaize administration for the country's low credit rating.

He has praised gang-fighting efforts and criticized the Clinton administration for waging an inadequate fight against drugs.

When Republicans made a similar proposal in 1995, they were vigorously criticized by the administration .

Dole may receive some help from the national Republican Party, which is already planning to run ads criticizing Clinton administration policies.

decision

The next day Guo criticized the finance committee decision .

Endara criticized Arias's decision as political opportunism, claiming that he intended preparing his candidature for the 1994 presidential elections.

The Bush administration criticized the decision and threatened to use its veto powers.

Kuhn's position leaves us with no way of criticizing the decisions and mode of operating of the scientific community.

department

The report also criticized the department for refusing to accept that new roads generate more traffic.

environmentalist

The document has been criticized by environmentalists for merely offering suggestions and not setting out proposals for action.

The change has been sharply criticized by environmentalists .

The reductions have been criticized by environmentalists as not going far enough.

The thinking behind the report was criticized by environmentalists .

government

Unlike most candidates calling for change or reform, Brown never had to forcefully criticize city government .

However, the Supreme Soviet criticized the government over its social protection measures.

Our purpose is not to criticize government , as so many have, but to renew it.

In authoritarian media systems, the media might be privately owned but have only limited freedom to criticize government .

In Doncaster over Christmas, I had been thinking constantly about criticizing the Government .

lack

For its part, Friends of the Earth criticized the lack of statutory recycling targets.

Inevitably the reality of photography was criticized for its lack of style.

The report criticizes a lack of co-ordination on sea defences.

He criticized Bevin for lack of imagination - surely an inverted compliment given its implication of positive contributions in the past.

They also criticized the evident lack of contingency plans to prevent or respond to accidents of this kind.

They criticized the lack of an automatic shut-off mechanism in the cooling system.

He has criticized the lack of internal democracy in the party, founded in 1990 by former Environment Minister Brice Lalonde.

leader

Alexander I.. Lebed took center stage to criticize the ailing leader and cast himself as heir apparent.

party

Democrats have criticized the Republican Party for financing of the cable deal.

The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party.

Political balance can not be achieved by criticizing one party during the mid-term of a parliament and another at election time.

plan

Environmentalists have criticized the plan as naive.

George Pataki who criticized the reform plan for denying Medicaid benefits to legal immigrants who are not citizens.

Therefore it would be rash to pretend to criticize community care plans .

Several members of Congress have already criticized the plan .

They criticized his flat tax plan because it would tax wages but not investments.

policy

And some intellectuals have criticized official policy without suffering repercussions.

Can a teacher be dismissed for publicly criticizing school policy ?

Can an underground newspaper be prohibited from criticizing school policies ?

Dole may receive some help from the national Republican Party, which is already planning to run ads criticizing Clinton administration policies .

president

They criticized the president for punishing both the innocent and the guilty and for exacting such harsh punishment.

Jesse Jackson have criticized the president for signing the welfare act.

proposal

The next morning, Gandhi criticized the Sapru proposal .

report

On receiving it you use this report to criticize the employee's work.

The result is that for sending in the report to criticize the employee's punished.

While based upon an extensive data base and significant historical research, this Rand report has been criticized as being too pessimistic.

Though his subsequent report did not directly criticize Campbell, it did attack the overall structure of the police and judiciary.

The current spate of reports on the schools criticizes parents for not involving themselves in the education of their children.

The report also criticized the department for refusing to accept that new roads generate more traffic.

The report also criticizes Nirex for seeking to rush through its proposals without proper public consultation and expert examination.

s

MelAmid is a term used to criticize some one s capabilities or competence.

work

Often he made them criticize each other's work .

But Brown, who spent more on travel than any of his predecessors, was also criticized for his overseas work .

On receiving it you use this report to criticize the employee's work .

I work very hard and put in long hours, but my direct supervisor is constantly criticizing my work.

What have I been criticized for at work ?

In essence, if she criticizes your work , she is criticizing herself.

All that he could do was criticize the assembly's work from the outside.

The three members contributed regular essays, or else original compositions, and criticized one another's work at group meetings.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

criticize/nag/hassle sb up one side and down the other

roundly condemn/criticize etc

And every year the report's findings are roundly condemned by Tory politicians for being excessively negative.

Pena was roundly criticized by senators who lectured him about public grandstanding and insufficient attention to safety concerns.

Such inequality was roundly condemned by the Old Testament prophets.

The slickly produced pamphlet listed numerous general goals but offered little in the way of specifics and has been roundly criticized.

Under normal circumstances that would be a thoroughly anti-democratic development, to be roundly condemned.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I meet with several other artists and we criticize each other's work.

It's easy to criticize , but managing a football team can be an extremely difficult job.

Jackson declined to criticize his opponent, choosing instead to focus on his own message.

People are always criticizing the Royal family, but I think they do a good job.

Stop criticizing my driving!

The President criticized the proposal as expensive and impractical.

The United Nations was criticized for failing to react sooner to the crisis.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

In this chapter, the inductivist account of science will be criticized by casting doubt on the third of these assumptions.

It was not undertaken to support, refute or criticize contemporary urban and regional theory.

Moreover, the students are culturally expected to criticize not only the university itself but the entire society.

She would never have thought of criticizing his hardness.

The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party.

Though his subsequent report did not directly criticize Campbell, it did attack the overall structure of the police and judiciary.

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