They were criticising a Frenchman for being French, which is like moaning that a beach is too sandy. |
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What I'm criticising is the various implied assumptions that tend to go along with that. |
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Thus, criticising young people and negatively stereotyping them as rebellious, met with strong aversion from the youth and children alike. |
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After the exam don't spend endless time criticising yourself for where you think you went wrong. |
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They believe that praising the world's most powerful men is more persuasive than criticising them. |
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He launched a frenzied personal attack on the economist, criticising everything from his economics to his politics. |
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While criticising communal parties, he had a dig at the Congress, saying that people know the aims and objectives of communal forces. |
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Tired of criticising les rosbifs as backward and bellicose, they are marvelling at Britain's economic robustness. |
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They're both tactless and they both love criticising me to their hearts delight. |
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Certainly envy seeks to spoil it by finding fault and criticising every blemish. |
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Fatally, however, they crossed over from satirising commentators to criticising player behaviour. |
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To be charitable, perhaps his paranoid focus on who'd been criticising Latham obscured his focus. |
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No swearing, no talking in class, no answering back, no criticising the town or anyone in the town, just behave, please, Tenni, would you? |
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The woman meant well, but always ended up criticising every little thing I did. |
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But as a middle-aged baldie who stands at five foot eight with a following wind, I hesitate to go around criticising how other people look. |
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There seems little point in criticising the approach that others take to the dilemma. |
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Having subsequently watched television footage of the incident, Williamson apologised to the referee for criticising his decision. |
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Sensibly, So has stayed publicly away from criticising Sheppard over the past few days. |
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Planetary placements are definitely Virgo-friendly at present so why squander them on fault-finding and criticising? |
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They build a player up, knock him down and then start criticising personalities. |
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I'm not criticising anyone but it's just a dead surface and there's no response from it. |
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The Attorney-General Philip Ruddock took exception to that, and took the rare step of publicly criticising the Police Commissioner. |
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He was perfectly justified in criticising the way English clubs are run financially. |
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It was also delightful to hear the out of shape slobs swearing at and criticising the highly fit athletes on the pitch. |
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Dyson piled up the points, criticising a culture that celebrates the effortlessly brilliant rather than the determined slogger. |
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Many people cowered from criticising him, not least because of his readiness to confront his critics in the libel courts. |
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If quitting is un-Australian, and criticising someone for quitting is un-Australian, then what would be the appropriately patriotic thing to do? |
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This isn't such a big problem for science or engineering types, as of course there are real-world criteria for proving or disproving a theory or criticising a methodology. |
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I am not judging their actual merits, but I am criticising the complete lack of merit in this method of awarding grants. |
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The present system was short on self-questioning and criticising, and therefore not able to improve itself, said Komili. |
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First of all, I'd like to raise a question: Why is the indictment criticising my scientific analysis of the Lausanne Treaty? |
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In my opinion, it is a fallacious argument, when criticising the Senates, to use the argument of the slowness of bicameralism. |
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The current fuss was started by the Oneida Indian tribe of New York, which has sponsored a series of radio ads criticising the Redskins. |
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True the regime is snoopy and paranoid, but there is one perspective which should be taken into account by anybody who wants to start criticising them. |
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If this was no longer treason, the carpers said loudly enough to be heard by those they were criticising, it was at least disloyalty. |
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In the old days, criticising the Queen's glossy locks would have been a head-removing offense. |
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So despite our good working relationship with the previous mayor, we never wavered from criticising him when he mucked up. |
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Now we hear grumbles from some activists that criticising Egypt diverts attention from the real culprit. |
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He had been arrested in March 2000 for criticising Kim Jong-il's personality cult. |
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The article's author, none other than Propaganda Department chief Yao Wenyuan, accused Wu of implicitly criticising Maoism. |
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Most of the private media, controlled by a small elite, have refrained from criticising the government, while parroting its views. |
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If he is unable to come up with one, then would he please apologise, not for criticising, but for vilifying my character. |
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It frantically lobbies against any Australian government criticising settlements. |
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Grande reacted with an essay on Instagram criticising the misogynistic comments for objectifying both women. |
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We were forced to read propaganda texts over the radio criticising our country and its institutions. |
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Writers give us the future by creating alternative ways of living, or by criticising and envisioning new realities. |
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Mutual funds might be chary of criticising their parent banks' clients, or they may even feel obliged to invest in their shares. |
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Two of its journalists were sentenced to harsh prison sentences for drug trafficking, after criticising the Star Force. |
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I have drawn severe flack from South African circles for criticising their Reserve Bank and for laying the blame for the Rand's demise at their door. |
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The company locked its workers out for five months, without as much as one word, one press release or one Dorothy Dix question in Parliament criticising it. |
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But criticising these guys is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel. |
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More than 100 of the party's MPs have signed motions criticising the government's plans and he faces a bruising battle to push the measure through the Commons. |
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A recent visit there by US and an article in Agora criticising the situation of staff have led to a shake-up. |
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Another source of unhappiness resides in the fact that articles have emerged in this week's red tops criticising him for lining his pockets at the public's expense once again. |
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Dr Richard Gale, a specialist registrar in ophthalmology at York District Hospital, has co-written the article in the British Medical Journal criticising the signs. |
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He set up another oppositional newspaper called Reyting, which was well known for criticising the regime. |
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They had spent two hours talking about him without criticising him once, not even when he became only the second man to send someone off in a Cup final. |
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In addition to this, Gall suggests that care needs to be taken in criticising sectionalism for he claims it can play a positive role in helping to create solidarity. |
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Instead of the UK Eurosceptics criticising this report, they should welcome it because it will do a lot to help our hard-pressed hauliers. |
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People with eating disorders need understanding and not criticising. |
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The controversy eventually became public, and Paine was then denounced as unpatriotic for criticising an American revolutionary. |
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Malala attracted global attention last year when the Taliban shot her in the head in north west Pakistan for criticising the group. |
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Furthermore, one has to be careful not to over-generalise when criticising the CAP and also to stop trumpeting market liberalisation as the great solution for all the poorest countries. |
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In October 2007 he was sentenced to five years in prison on trumped up charges of endangering Iran's national security and criticising the regime. |
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Both Cruddas and Collins are decentralisers, criticising New Labour for hoarding too much power in Whitehall. |
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On 5 August, a radio announcer was also fined for criticising the concentration of power in the hands of members of the head of state's tribe on the air. |
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But in the main Britain has gone along with the European project reluctantly and tardily, often criticising from the sidelines, and joining in only when staying out was clearly the worse option. |
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At the same time, we must be understanding and make people see that criticising a government is not the same as criticising ideas that have other agendas and other dimensions. |
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It seems he was only too happy to oblige though, and took part in the segment with gusto, reading tweets criticising his hair, his inefficacy as a president, his economic policies and even his jeans. |
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The press is completely manipulated and anyone openly criticising the president winds up in a cell if he is lucky and six feet under if he is less fortunate. |
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Readers and reporters alike are concerned that these are from those paid to troll, and to denigrate in abusive terms anyone criticising Russia or President Vladimir Putin. |
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Certainly, Parliament is often touchingly united in criticising other institutions, but there is actually good reason for Parliament also to be self-critical. |
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If the Presidency had not wasted time criticising Parliament or finding specious, trumped-up obstacles, and had lavished more energy on preventing the failure of the Council, it would perhaps have acted wisely. |
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There is no time to lose either in criticising the inanity of economics regarding this or that real world problem, or in amending this hypothesis or that item of methodology. |
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By criticising the situation of 'human rights' in the Western Sahara while neither Algeria nor the Polisario Front respect them, the two allies have managed to pull off a fine conjurer's trick! |
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Be that as it may, many see the G20 cultural celebrations being used as a smokescreen, a way to divert people away from criticising the state government. |
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Though many later spoke out in support of Smart's decision, the initial response on social media seemed to be predominantly ridiculing or criticising her. |
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Martial wrote a satirical epigram criticising a certain Mancino for hosting unworthy banquets which lacked various delicacies, in particular picenae olives. |
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If that classes me as a heretic, I hope I do not suffer the fate of Abdel Kareem, sentenced to four years in jail in Egypt for criticising both his government and the violent radicals in his country. |
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This does not stop some people in the United States from taking the moral high ground and criticising the European states for their alleged pacifism. |
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West Brom take on Leicester at the King Power Stadium in a return to Premier League action on Saturday, with Irvine ready to recall all his key men after criticising those fringe players who failed to perform. |
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On Sunday, Kasich, who has notedly refrained from criticising his competitors on the campaign trail, also laid into the frontrunner's conduct over the weekend. |
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I was really impressed by your calm and careful proceeding and how in conversation you bring things to the point without criticising or indoctrinating. |
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A young man known as Kareem Amer was sentenced to four years in prison in Egypt for blog posts criticising the president and Islamist control of the country's universities. |
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Rahimullah Samandar, the head of the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association, says his arrest is linked to articles written by his brother, Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, criticising the Balkh provincial authorities. |
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His family thinks he may have been kidnapped because of articles criticising Baloch nationalist parties that took part in the recent parliamentary elections while other Baloch nationalist groups boycotted them. |
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Unable to pigeon-hole Polnareff into any particular category, French journalists often turned the singer into a scapegoat, criticising his 'scandalous' behaviour. |
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Journalists and committed Marxists, they coauthored the ten-volume Martin Beck series between 1965 and 1975 with the aim of criticising the country's welfare state. |
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Reporter Ghanashyam Paudel of the local newspaper Sudoor Sandesh was kidnapped and roughed up on 23 May in the western Kailali District after criticising the felling of 300 trees. |
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Xenophon, who was deported from Malaysia in 2013 for criticising the ruling party and who is a friend of Anwar's, said Australia was in a strong position to make the case for Anwar. |
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It is not the first time Inverdale has been guilty of an on-air faux pas in recent times, most memorably when criticising Marion Bartoli's looks before the 2013 Wimbledon final. |
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In our days, we see the proliferation of sects and movements that are based on a Word of God that is not always well interpreted and is aimed at criticising and confusing our faithful. |
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Of the leftist and liberal politicians who were expected to profit from Mubarak's overthrow three years ago, only a handful – including ElBaradei – have stuck to their principles by criticising both Morsi and his successors. |
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We are criticising ourselves by saying that the situation is as it is thanks to a certain amount of determination, whether we like that determination or not. |
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Former Dean of the Hanoi Institute of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy, Hoang Minh Chinh spent over 20 years in prison and under house arrest for criticising the Communist Party of Vietnam. |
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The Commission is not criticising the use of that system as a means of facilitating the determination of transfer prices for transactions between associated entities. |
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As was to be expected, not one of the 53 member countries wished to adopt a US resolution, very moderate as it was, criticising China, even more so since the text named Tibet and Sinkiang. |
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The talented young singer, songwriter and composer attracted a major youth following, teenage music fans identifying with his powerful songs criticising general living conditions in Haiti and calling for national unity. |
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Journalists in the region continue to face imprisonment for criticising the political leadership, and most of the region's legislatures have yet to draft, pass and implement freedom of information laws. |
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In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text. |
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The party initially opposed federalism in the UK, criticising the establishment of the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament. |
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By criticising Eden, Spotswood intended to bolster the legitimacy of his invasion. |
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Contemporary reviews were largely negative, particularly criticising Welles' unsympathetic portrayal of the central character. |
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John was duly executed, but his claims resonated with those criticising Edward for his lack of regal behaviour and steady leadership. |
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He contributed to the debate prior to the 2005 United Kingdom General Election criticising assertions that immigration was a cause of crime. |
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First, a social rule exists where society frowns on deviation from the habit and attempts to prevent departures by criticising such behaviour. |
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It did not object to anything on the blogsite, in letters or in the press criticising how it operated or its policies. |
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This week, our hero could be in trouble after he sends a colourfully worded email criticising educational adviser Roy Smedley. |
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In criticising conscription he had 'openly and publicly, in fact in every possible way, announced that he was a Sinn Feiner, indeed an absolute rebel. |
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Singhvi recently wrote an opinion piece in an English daily criticising Ramakrishnan for his insensitivity to the compatriotic feelings of Indians. |
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Pliny starts with the known universe, roundly criticising attempts at cosmology as madness, including the view that there are countless other worlds than the Earth. |
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After criticising him for misspelling a dead soldier's mother's name, The Sun was then forced to apologise for misspelling the same name on their website. |
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I MUST say that I was sickened to read those do-gooders criticising our living legend George Best getting a liver transplant because of his drink problem. |
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He was one of the signatories of an open letter, published in The Guardian, criticising the government for its actions regarding the refugee problem. |
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Even given a string of judicial decisions criticising and overruling such monopolies, James I, Elizabeth I's successor, continued using patents to create monopolies. |
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Protesters carrying signs criticising Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, architect of the pull-out, which begins next week, filled the square in front of Tel Aviv city hall. |
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Breakfast TV has always been an easy target for snidey types who get their kicks from criticising the relaxed, warmer style that broadcasting at that time of the day demands. |
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