Sentence examples for A pointed criticism from inspiring English sources

Some were seemingly intentional, like a pointed criticism of China and India.

"I don't want to be the leader that plays into David Cameron or George Osborne's hands," she said in a pointed criticism of Mr Miliband's strategy.

Thus, when Mr. Gore visited a North Carolina school recently, he ended the day with a pointed criticism of school vouchers.

In a pointed criticism of Arab leaders, one he has already made, he added, "Those who supported this regime are now witnessing the monster that they enabled".

"I didn't bring you rice or cooking oil because votes cannot be bought," he said, in a pointed criticism of President Fujimori's campaign tactics, before a screaming crowd of 25,000 in the agricultural center of Ica last Friday night.

In 2009, when Moscow was hosting – a year after after the Russia-Georgia war – Georgia withdrew its entry after the organisers told it to change the lyrics and title of its song We Don't Wanna Put In after it was perceived as too much of a pointed criticism of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin.

Mathias Risse offers an even more pointed criticism, pointing out that the usual baseline for causation to be ascribed to an interaction is the expectations that would hold in the absence of such interaction (Risse 2005).

Still, I read a rather pointed criticism of my spending habits in his anticatalog crusade.

In a particularly pointed criticism, the report said private investors seemed to have received much better terms on their investments in troubled financial institutions than the government had.

In a more pointed criticism of Iran than usual, the IAEA says the delay "reduces the level of confidence in the absence of other nuclear facilities under construction and gives rise to questions about whether there were any other nuclear facilities not declared to the agency".

Mr. Ahn's interviews, and the lectures that until recently he gave on campuses across South Korea, reveal Mr. Ahn to be not only a mentor whose talks have inspired younger Koreans, but a social critic whose pointed criticism of the country's big businesses has struck a deep chord.