Erdoğan seems immune to criticism.

As a member of the police force, what do you make of this critique?

But the same criticism can be directed at Sarkozy.

A passive follower keeps his head down, shuns risk, and avoids criticism.

Bush silenced criticism by calling it unpatriotic.

We are more sympathetic to the second criticism.

The Netherlands, in particular, has been subjected to a relentless campaign of vilification.

Our neighborhood policy needs support, not criticism.

Most ironic is the self fulfilling critique that many activists now use.

They know that their government is fragile, and they consider criticism harmful rather than cleansing.

That absence of self criticism is what led America into the Iraq quagmire.

The regime is also being accused of falsifying the results of these elections in its favor.

The ghost city critique misses this point entirely.

Assad, Syrian rebels, Americans, Russians, and Arabs all merit criticism.

Her delegation particularly objected to the criticism of the Quartet's efforts to facilitate a two State solution and felt that such criticism undermined the United Nations role as part of that Quartet.

But such criticism captures only one small part of Europe s difficulties.

However, I believe this has been the case for several other sciences, so I find that critique unfair at times.

Of course, China merits criticism in many areas of its domestic and foreign policy.

This criticism reflects a serious misunderstanding of how markets really function.

The standard rap against industrial policy is that governments cannot pick winners.

By contrast, Spain and Italy are more critical and have moved closer to France.

For Sweden, my homeland, the United Nations is a sacred cow.

Such criticism notwithstanding, Friedman makes an important point.

There were many points of criticism when it came to the project, not least from people in Uganda.

Behind closed doors, governments wield financial incentives and regulatory powers to mute media criticism and twist editorial content in their favor.

Just as single mothers were irrationally castigated then, so today an equally irrational hagiography has risen around them. (Europe has more single mothers than the US, but, characteristically, has less need to moralize about them one way or the other).

Criticism of our proposal so far has failed to realistically address the core issue of permanent membership.

Indirect criticism of the present is usually a key element in idealized views of the past.

The Chairman, responding to the Brazilian representative's criticism, said that he had departed from the normal practice in an attempt to find a balance.

Kenya s new constitution won t have much effect unless we Kenyans take a critical look at ourselves.

However, opaque solutions designed to avoid critical public scrutiny do not seem particularly democratic.

During these past fifteen years the United Nations has often been criticized for its structure and for some of its activities.

But promoting these aims without discussion, let alone criticism, resulted in a backlash.

For the government to protect ideas from criticism is to turn them into a lifeless and rigid dogma, regardless of whether they are true.

Europe, Germany in particular, has been highly critical of the US approach of placing its central bank at the center of its recovery strategy.

The only criticism, and people really don't want to criticize this, because it is a humanitarian effort it is a nonprofit effort and to criticize it is a little bit stupid, actually.

UN Security Council Resolution 1564, passed on 18 September 2004, reserves the bulk of its criticism for the government of Sudan.

In Israel, there was harsh criticism of political and military chiefs alike, who were blamed for the loss of 3,000 soldiers in a war that ended without a clear victory.

From then on, the sponsors have an implicit right to check on the user s progress, offering support or criticism far more compelling than any stranger could.

Most of its people would welcome a more entrepreneurial environment, but they have been beaten down by years of criticism, constraints, regulations, and arbitrary budget cuts.

Some of the criticism has become abusive, and Campbell had to close her social media accounts. Her supporters even launched a petition calling for state protection, after she received certain physical threats.

This never met any criticism from my voters, because educational policy and the social safety net were designed to lower workers risk aversion.

Given the difficulties of persuading armed groups to participate in negotiations, Myanmar rejected unwarranted criticism of the degree to which its National Convention was inclusive.

Sensing the bitter frustration of Moscow s middle class in waiting, Yeltsin quickly gained a reputation as a harsh, if not always coherent, critic of the party s old guard.

Luzhkov, after all, had been vocally critical of Medvedev, while praising Putin allegedly an attempt to drive a wedge between the two.