Should any institution in a democratic republic be above criticism?
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And her record on the issue is not above criticism.
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That's not to suggest the White House should be above criticism.
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The message he sent was that no one on the team was above criticism.
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But ousted Glass Cliff-ers are never above criticism — that's the cover for pushing them off the cliff.
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Mr Modi, despite remaining a masterly showman and wielding an intimidating party machine, is no longer above criticism.
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"The FBI is certainly not above criticism and without question it needs healthy and robust oversight," Tapper said.
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And rising national hate crime statistics frequently cited by well-meaning nonprofits and media outlets are not above criticism.
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Thailand considers the monarchy to be one of the guiding pillars of Thai society and above criticism or comment.
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She wrote for the general public, letting people know the truth, challenging the belief that scientists were above criticism.
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The military considers the monarchy to be one of the guiding pillars of Thai society and above criticism or comment.
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The consensus itself, of course, is by no means above criticism and has long had its critics on the left.
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But neither can we say any work of art is above criticism just because its creator wants to shrug off responsibility.
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Advocating that the one institution we have which is closest to a secret police force must be above criticism is dangerous.
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"We understand that the Department is not above criticism and it can never be that the Department conceals errors when they occur," Sessions wrote.
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"We understand that the Department is not above criticism and it can never be that the Department conceals errors when they occur," he wrote.
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Mayer has had a decent tenure so far, as turnaround CEOs go (though not as long as Steve Jobs!), and she's clearly not above criticism.
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Amid all these incidents, reports have surfaced about a culture at Boeing where profits are placed above people, deflection above honesty and conformity above criticism.
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" Asked about the email, Jim Lakely of the Heartland Institute said, "It is wrong to suggest that NASA's public statements on climate change are above criticism.
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Of course, it&aposs true that the press are a vital part of democracy, but they are not above everyone else, and they are not above criticism.
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" To another journalist, who wrote that "blaming the messenger is the hot new thing everyone's doing," Musk replied , "Oh hey another sanctimonious media person who thinks he's above criticism.
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Above all, I know Pennsylvania Catholics, who are generally more inclined than Catholics from elsewhere to place Father or Monsignor or Bishop on a pedestal and deem him above criticism or even suspicion.
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At least, though, consumers know that the news media is not produced in some "neutral" way or above criticism, and a whole network — from media watchdogs to public editors — tries to hold those institutions accountable.
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None of this is to embrace the "Likud narrative" of the conflict, or support the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu, or reject the idea of Palestinian statehood, or suggest that Israel is above criticism and reproach.
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But the director's status as one of the last auteurs standing and the movie's general critical acclaim (not to mention its amazing box office success) also don't make him or it above criticism, especially when the movie stumbles in portraying women or people of color.
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He denied being any of those things, and argued that no person or group was above criticism, especially those who, in his view, lacked talent and covered themselves in mantles of race, ethnicity, gender or sexual identity and used them to claim preferential treatment in the marketplaces of culture.
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" The New Orleans chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP 100), a civil rights group, wrote in a statement that "by treating the police as specialized citizens held above criticism and the laws they are charged to enforce, we lose our ability to exercise our First Amendment right.
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" But none of that meant the Court was above criticism: "At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
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If the validity of Aristotle's and Boethius' Theses is distinctive of connexive logics, it is, however, not quite clear how damaging the above criticism is.
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Truth is not to be found outside the group. The leader, as the spokesperson for God or for all humanity, is likewise above criticism. #Loading the Language. The group interprets or uses words and phrases in new ways so that often the outside world does not understand.
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Gauss was an ardent perfectionist and a hard worker. He was never a prolific writer, refusing to publish work which he did not consider complete and above criticism. This was in keeping with his personal motto pauca sed matura ("few, but ripe"). His personal diaries indicate that he had made several important mathematical discoveries years or decades before his contemporaries published them.
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Several past studies have identified inconsistent sixth-factor dimensions (e.g. hedonism–spontaneity) while other research has identified potentially more than six factors. The above criticism is not unique to the HEXACO model, given that there has been considerable debate regarding the identity of the fifth factor of personality in the Five-Factor Model, especially across cultures.Larsen, R.J., & Buss, D.M. (2008).
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Before he had been above criticism, but now his every action and inaction prompted meticulous scrutiny and open criticism. Many young politicians had become apathetic toward the monarchic regime and, when the time came, they would do nothing to defend it. Pedro II's achievements went unremembered and unconsidered by the ruling elites. By his very success, the Emperor had made his position seem unnecessary.
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As monks have traditionally been above criticism, Thaksin could not sue Luang Ta Maha Bua. "This is an exercise of an individual's right to protect his reputation and privacy. The newspaper did not criticise the prime minister fairly as a public official, but rather it took him to task personally, using harsh words, which was damaging to him," said Thana Benjathikul, Thaksin's lawyer. Thaksin was immediately attacked by Sondhi and accused of gagging the press.
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In the TV sales world Beck's show has become known as "empty calories," meaning that he draws great ratings, but he's toxic for ad sales. Fox issued a statement indicating that overall revenue had not been lost as a result of the boycott, as most companies had shifted to other Fox programs. UPS Stores has decided to temporarily stop advertising on Fox News as a whole. Beck said that he was unapologetic for the remark and stated that the President is not above criticism.
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In the three months following the inauguration of the new regime there were more than 100 strikes, constituting three-quarters of the labor force of the Empire, mainly in Constantinople and Salonika (Thessaloniki). During previous strikes (Anatolian tax revolts in 1905-1907) the Sultan remained above criticism and bureaucrats and administrators were deemed corrupt; this time CUP took the blame. In the parliament LU accused the CUP of authoritarianism. Abdul Hamid's Grand Viziers Said and Kâmil Pasha and his Foreign Minister Tevfik Pasha continued in the office.
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A type-2 fuzzy set lets us incorporate uncertainty about the membership function into fuzzy set theory, and is a way to address the above criticism of type-1 fuzzy sets head-on. And, if there is no uncertainty, then a type-2 fuzzy set reduces to a type-1 fuzzy set, which is analogous to probability reducing to determinism when unpredictability vanishes. Type1 fuzzy systems are working with a fixed membership function, while in type-2 fuzzy systems the membership function is fluctuating. A fuzzy set determines how input values are converted into fuzzy variables.
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Accordingly, Savige's 17th Infantry Brigade headquarters was brought in to provide the 7th Division with a third brigade headquarters. Savige was given three battalions that had never worked together before—the 2/3rd and 2/5th Infantry Battalions and 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion. He scored a notable success in the Battle of Damour, which he rated as his most successful battle of the war, although his conduct was not above criticism by Berryman, who felt that Savige had located his headquarters too far back, resulting in failure to seize an important opportunity. Ultimately, though, this had no significant impact on the battle.
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The above criticism has been responded to in a recent study of data measured in the US and the United Kingdom, which confirms conclusions made based on measurements on the Bundesautobahn 5 in Germany. Moreover, there is a recent validation of the theory based on floating car data. In this article one can also find methods for spatial-temporal interpolations of data measured at road detectors (see article’s appendixes). Other criticisms have been made, such as that the notion of phases has not been well defined and that so-called two-phase models also succeed in simulating the essential features described by Kerner.
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There is a controversy with the use of the word minority, as it has a generic and an academic usage. Common usage of the term indicates a statistical minority; however, academics refer to power differences among groups rather than differences in population size among groups. The above criticism is based on the idea that a group can be considered minority even if it includes such a large number of people that it is numerically not a minority in society. Some sociologists have criticized the concept of "minority/majority", arguing this language excludes or neglects changing or unstable cultural identities, as well as cultural affiliations across national boundaries.
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Some democratic peace researchers have been criticized for post hoc reclassifying some specific conflicts as non-wars or political systems as non-democracies without checking and correcting the whole data set used similarly. Supporters and opponents of the democratic peace agree that this is bad use of statistics, even if a plausible case can be made for the correction (, , ). A military affairs columnist of the newspaper Asia Times has summarized the above criticism in a journalist's fashion describing the theory as subject to the no true Scotsman problem: exceptions are explained away as not being between "real" democracies or "real" wars . Some democratic peace researchers require that the executive result from a substantively contested election.
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Among Harrison biographers, Simon Leng describes "This Guitar" as a "harrowing song", with a "passionate and powerful" Harrison vocal, and draws parallels between it and Neil Young's similarly anti-journalistic "Ambulance Blues". Elliot Huntley says that, while Harrison's decision to write a follow-up to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was misguided, the sequel is "a good song in its own right, with excellent lead guitar work from the master". Ian Inglis writes of the "gulf" separating Harrison's 1968 composition from the 1975 song: "While the first was a poignant and satisfying commentary that drew attention to his newfound maturity as a songwriter, this is a petulant and rather arrogant statement in which he appears to want to put himself above criticism ... Both words and music depict a sour and troubled performer, whose resentment is all too clear."Inglis, pp. 51–52.
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Ramazzini exemplifies how science, legal justice, andsocial equity can harmoniously and efficiently coexist in a competent, sensible, committed physician. In our society, these three qualities rarely converge. Social equity is the most consistently maltreated of the three, while scienceis generally considered, by definition, to be above criticism while deliberately ignoring the possibility that its objectivity is often blurred by conflicts of interests (…) The sort of aristocratic tendency that between the time of Hippocrates and that of Bernardino Ramazzini led to dismissal of the occupational diseases of the working class by scientific medicine, or at least by a large sector of the biomedical establishment, is continuing today with the priority given to intellectually stimulating research, which usually has potential economic outcomes as its implicit but rarely declared goal. In this context, the pharmaceutical industry plays both a direct and an indirect roleby the conditioning effect of its conspicuous financial support”.
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Although Shilts was applauded for bringing public attention to gay civil rights issues and the AIDS crisis, he was also harshly criticized (and spat upon on Castro Street) by some in the gay community for calling for the closure of gay bathhouses in San Francisco to slow the spread of AIDS."Randy Shilts, Chronicler of AIDS Epidemic, Dies at 42; Journalism: Author of 'And the Band Played On' is credited with awakening nation to the health crisis"; Warren, Jennifer and Paddock, Richard; Los Angeles Times; February 18, 1994; PAGE: A-1; Retrieved on 2007-01-03 Fellow Bay Area journalist Bob Ross called Shilts "a traitor to his own kind". In a note included in The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, Shilts expressed his view of a reporter's duty to rise above criticism: > I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, > at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and > propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story. Shilts was also criticized by some segments of the gay community on other issues, including his opposition to the controversial practice of outing prominent but closeted lesbians and gay men.
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