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Her 2007 book Full Frontal Feminism took to task young women who disavow the "feminist" label.
Even when infuriating to those he took to task, his gift at turning a phrase was undeniable.
His report in late March 2016 took to task Campbell, his assistants and the investigators with the Illinois State Police.
" One columnist in another paper took to task "nervous and excited people who think every pain is a symptom of the flu.
Farage took to task those remain campaigners, including financier George Soros, who have warned the value of sterling could plummet on a "Leave" vote.
He took to task billionaires who say issues like climate change are important, but do not accelerate their giving to address the problem now.
Shortly after in 2001, Pence took to task all those government anti-smoking ads which went around saying how smoking killed millions of Americans each year.
Some of the major figures who once took Bush took to task started to sit on their hands, with a few even voicing—gasp—support of Obama.
The senator also took to task U.S. airlines calling for a bailout amid the shutdown of international travel, saying their idle fleets should be poised for action.
Separately, on Friday night at a political rally in Alabama, Trump took to task N.F.L. players who kneel in protest during the national anthem and N.F.L. owners who allow it.
The proposed changes are reminiscent of the amendments Turkey made to its Constitution in 2017, which some of Egypt's most prominent talk-show hosts took to task at the time.
" Ban also took to task world leaders and candidates—with perhaps a certain U.S. presidential candidate in mind—who had scapegoated Muslim refugees and migrants, calling it a form of "cynical and dangerous political math.
It picked up in the middle of a thought, and took to task the "pathetic heathens" it said had criticized him, including Mr. Cuomo and the president of the Buffalo school board, Barbara Seals Nevergold.
In a statement to parliament, May took to task those who doubted that she could move the talks beyond the initial stage of agreeing terms on how much Britain should pay, citizens' rights and the border between the British province of Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.
But he also took to task critics on the left who see retreat behind national boundaries as the only way forward in a global economy — making a call for more globalization and bigger government combined as the key to a successful progressive internationalist approach to the world economy.
In a confirmation hearing on Thursday, Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, took to task David T. Fischer, a Michigan car dealer who has been nominated to become ambassador to Morocco, for failing to list in his materials a lawsuit in which Mr. Fischer played an important role.
From his personal journals of 1973 His decision to become a Catholic did not go down well with his father Reuben, who took to task Fr. Joseph Kuhn of the Chepterit Catholic Mission for baptizing his son in 1947.
Within this group he includes those novelists who took to task authoritarian figures such as Vargas Llosa's Conversation in the Cathedral (1969) and Denzil Romero's La tragedia del Generalísimo (1984). He even includes Sergio Ramírez's ¿Te dio miedo la sangre? (1977), a novel about Nicaraguan society under the Somoza dictatorship, which has been described as a "dictator novel without the dictator".
Following the introduction of Belbin's approach to Team Role analysis in 1981, an independent study of the psychometric properties of the instruments was published in 1993 in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Belbin took to task the authors, Furnham, Steele and PendletonBelbin, R. (1993, September). "A reply to the Belbin Team-Role Self-Perception Inventory by Furnham, Steele and Pendleton". Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 66(3), 259-260.
While praising the poem's sublimity and intellectual power, he took to task the intrusive egotism of its author. Clothing landscape and incident with the poet's personal thoughts and feelings suited this new sort of poetry very well; but his abstract philosophical musing too often steered the poem into didacticism, a leaden counterweight to its more imaginative flights.Wordsworth might as well, wrote Hazlitt, have "given to his work the form of a didactic poem altogether." Works, vol. 4, p. 113.
Written in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Miller took to task the entirety of human culture. What she called the "wall of silence" is the metaphorical wall behind which society — academia, psychiatrists, clergy, politicians and members of the media — has sought to protect itself: denying the mind-destroying effects of child abuse. She also continued the autobiographical confession initiated in Banished Knowledge about her abusive mother. In Pictures of a Childhood: Sixty-six Watercolors and an Essay, Miller said that painting helped her to ponder deeply into her memories.
Blish was among the first literary critics of science fiction, and he judged works in the genre by the standards applied to "serious" literature. He took to task his fellow authors for deficiencies, such as bad grammar and a misunderstanding of scientific concepts, and the magazine editors, who accepted and published such material without editorial intervention. His critiques were published in "fanzines" in the 1950s under the pseudonym William Atheling Jr. The essays were collected in The Issue at Hand (1964) and More Issues at Hand (1970). Reviewing The Issue at Hand, Algis Budrys said that Atheling had, along with Damon Knight, "transformed the reviewer's trade in this field".
The newspaper also took to task the Queensland premier Ted Theodore who had claimed in 1919 Rhodes had not been "detrimentally affected" by his original transfer from Townsville to Rockhampton.Government Appointments; Questions In The Assembly, The Brisbane Courier, 17 October 1919. Retrieved from National Library of Australia 17 July 2017. The newspaper accused Theodore of either not knowing what he was talking about or not meaning what he said, and published the salary comparisons between the Townsville, Rockhampton and Thursday Island jobs, which revealed Rhodes had accepted a lower salary when he was transferred to Rockhampton and would have been forced to take another pay cut had he accepted the transfer to Thursday Island.
As war clouds gathered, both the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News advocated neutrality; "Daddy" Warbucks, however, was gleefully manufacturing tanks, planes, and munitions. Journalist James Edward Vlamos deplored the loss of fantasy, innocence, and humor in the "funnies", and took to task one of Gray's sequences about espionage, noting that the "fate of the nation" rested on "Annie's frail shoulders". Vlamos advised readers to "Stick to the saner world of war and horror on the front pages." When the US entered World War II, Annie not only played her part by blowing up a German submarine but organized and led groups of children called the Junior Commandos in the collection of newspapers, scrap metal, and other recyclable materials for the war effort.
Shortly before his election as the Yang-Di Pertuan Agong in 1983, a spate of reports alleging Sultan Iskandar's intention to launch a coup d'état by launching a state of emergency to overthrow the government circulated within political circles, which reached Mahathir himself. The Sultan was reportedly having fostered close relations with several key military personnel, including the Army chief himself. The government subsequently took action to curb constitutional loopholes within the constitution and took to task of reducing the power of royal veto in passing legislation, culminating to a constitutional crisis in late 1983.Milne, Mauzy (1999), pg 32–33 Nevertheless, during his inaugural speech as the Agong in 1984, about a month after the constitutional amendments were passed in parliament, Sultan Iskandar voiced public support for the revised constitution and pledged to act in accordance to the Prime Minister's advise.
In 1929, at the recommendation of the Committee on Evil Literature, the Censorship of Publications Act established the Censorship of Publications Board to examine books and periodicals, with the authority to prohibit any of these they found to be obscene. Their decision made it illegal to buy, sell or distribute that publication in the Republic of Ireland. The first book to be banned by this Board was O’Flaherty's expressionist Galway novel The House of Gold that took to task the gombeen men who seized power in the Irish Free State following independence. The other banned works by O’Flaherty were: The Puritan (1932), The Martyr, (1933), Shame the Devil (1934), Hollywood Cemetery (1937). All of O’Flaherty's novels were first printed outside Ireland. It was not until the founding of Wolfhound Press by Seamus Cashman in 1974 that many of O’Flaherty works finally found an Irish publishing house. Cashman's publishing house re- printed many of O’Flaherty's novels and collections of short stories throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Nuascéalta has reprinted for the first time since their banning the novels that had not been republished since: The House of Gold (2013), Hollywood Cemetery (2019) and The Martyr (2020).

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