Collocations withcriticism

These are words often used in combination withcriticism.

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above criticism
In fairness, the above criticism applies only to a small part of a very brief introduction.
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a lot of criticism
Their argument has received a lot of criticism.
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architectural criticism
The architectural criticism in the second half of the book is more meticulous and based more on observation than in the first.
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art criticism
At two other conferences about art criticism in the same year, similar criticisms were made.
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barrage of criticism
However, they soon were forced to abandon these plans after running into a powerful barrage of criticism.
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biblical criticism
But biblical criticism, and its implications, are not primarily about translation or such interpretation.
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considerable criticism
The policy networks approach has been subject to considerable criticism, heuristic fatigue, and has lacked rigorous empirical testing.
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constant criticism
Their welfare work and their constant criticism of the incumbents are the pillars of their strategy.
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constructive criticism
The authors are grateful to the reviewers for their constructive criticism.
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cultural criticism
As a result, much of current cultural criticism involves exposing the authentic as construction.
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fair criticism
Do you think this is a fair criticism?
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fierce criticism
It is little wonder that there is fierce criticism in the industry and the media about such foot dragging.
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frequent criticism
In the course of time, however, the setup of the national district drew frequent criticism.
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growing criticism
By the late 1950s, the emir had banned a number of these associations in response to their growing criticism.
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harsh criticism
Nonetheless, similar risk-liability proposals have been discussed by legal philosophers and have generally received quite harsh criticism.
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heavy criticism
This plan attracted heavy criticism from all sides.
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helpful criticism
I thank them for the helpful criticism that sharpened the focus of the article.
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historical criticism
Applying a new historical criticism, he showed that biblical teaching and law were irrelevant for a modern pluralistic state and its intellectual life.
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implied criticism
This is often an implied criticism; the observation, however, is correct.
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increasing criticism
As the decade progressed, the conservative governments faced increasing criticism for their policies of supposedly 'selling out' to foreign powers.
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intense criticism
Engineering employers came under intense criticism from other sectors, textiles in particular, for failure its failure to cap wages.
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justifiable criticism
Ayalon's scholarship has come in for some justifiable criticism in recent years.
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justified criticism
Applying double standards is an invitation to discredit justified criticism of some other countries as useless, arrogant interference.
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legitimate criticism
One legitimate criticism of comparative research is that it is limited to the study of variables that can be represented across diverse groups.
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mild criticism
A mild criticism is the editors' lack of an explanatory note on the process of selection of extracts, though this is a minor point.
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negative criticism
They had attempted to pre-empt negative criticism of his works by turning potential weaknesses into strengths.
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outspoken criticism
Gwanzura was also renowned for his outspoken criticism of the government.
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public criticism
Given the political profile of the project in the country, public criticism was rare, but doubts began to take hold.
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rhetorical criticism
Conlogue's interpretations are interspersed with sharp rhetorical criticism of articles from the farm press that are contemporaneous with each literary work.
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scathing criticism
She expressed scathing criticism of those who assume, as a matter of principle, that communal land rights are a social good and a universal demand of indigenous peoples.
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serious criticism
For most of his career (he died in 1973), he encountered very little serious criticism or challenge.
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severe criticism
Lack of involvement of the common people from the very start of the programme planning has led to severe criticism and to many problems.
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sharp criticism
This forecast helped deflect, at least momentarily, the sharp criticism directed at its policy decision.
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sustained criticism
The most sustained criticism of the political economy perspective has been that it neglects agency or purposive individual human action.
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target of criticism
It is no wonder, then, that managed care is more often the target of criticism than positive assessment.
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textual criticism
This is certainly not a new idea - it has been fundamental to most theories of textual criticism for generations.
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trenchant criticism
Their trenchant criticism made the final version more coherent than it otherwise would have been and, in my view at least, more convincing.
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unjust criticism
From time to time they have been subject to considerable unjust criticism, and we are under a great obligation to them.
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widespread criticism
These theories received widespread criticism because they were in conflict with the accepted view of science.
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