Collocations with criticism

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
frequent criticism
In the course of time, however, the setup of the national district drew frequent criticism.
growing criticism
By the late 1950s, the emir had banned a number of these associations in response to their growing criticism.
harsh criticism
Nonetheless, similar risk-liability proposals have been discussed by legal philosophers and have generally received quite harsh criticism.
heavy criticism
This plan attracted heavy criticism from all sides.
helpful criticism
I thank them for the helpful criticism that sharpened the focus of the article.
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.
implied criticism
This is often an implied criticism; the observation, however, is correct.
increasing criticism
As the decade progressed, the conservative governments faced increasing criticism for their policies of supposedly 'selling out' to foreign powers.
intense criticism
Engineering employers came under intense criticism from other sectors, textiles in particular, for failure its failure to cap wages.
justifiable criticism
Ayalon's scholarship has come in for some justifiable criticism in recent years.
justified criticism
Applying double standards is an invitation to discredit justified criticism of some other countries as useless, arrogant interference.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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.
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.
negative criticism
They had attempted to pre-empt negative criticism of his works by turning potential weaknesses into strengths.
outspoken criticism
Gwanzura was also renowned for his outspoken criticism of the government.
public criticism
Given the political profile of the project in the country, public criticism was rare, but doubts began to take hold.
rhetorical criticism
Conlogue's interpretations are interspersed with sharp rhetorical criticism of articles from the farm press that are contemporaneous with each literary work.
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.
serious criticism
For most of his career (he died in 1973), he encountered very little serious criticism or challenge.
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.
sharp criticism
This forecast helped deflect, at least momentarily, the sharp criticism directed at its policy decision.
sustained criticism
The most sustained criticism of the political economy perspective has been that it neglects agency or purposive individual human action.
target of criticism
It is no wonder, then, that managed care is more often the target of criticism than positive assessment.
textual criticism
This is certainly not a new idea - it has been fundamental to most theories of textual criticism for generations.
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.
unjust criticism
From time to time they have been subject to considerable unjust criticism, and we are under a great obligation to them.
From the
Hansard archive