To detractors Creed's resistance to being called a Christian band didn't square with Mr. Stapp's spiritually themed lyrics.
To detractors, he was as wily as he was unprincipled, cultivating the corruption that seems to infuse public life in Lebanon.
To detractors, though, the program is prone to abuse by low-level housing employees who help to determine what counts, or does not count, as community service.
To detractors, the firm is alternately a cult or a secretive fraternity like Skull and Bones at Yale, one focused on profits and power.
To detractors he is a charlatan — a disgraced priest who has wrested command of the parish and ushered in a vision of Roman Catholicism so progressive as to be unrecognizable to the faithful.
To detractors, she is a dangerous cult figure who, with her husband, Massoud Rajavi, has led a terrorist movement that sold out to Iran's enemy, Iraq, and accepted Saddam Hussein's sponsorship.
To detractors -- among them the United Nations, human rights groups and at least two United States congressmen -- the legislation would undermine basic rights, insulate the military from outside scrutiny and possibly spawn new paramilitary groups.
To detractors, she is painfully unprepared for the vice presidency — someone who appeared blank or muddled when questioned about the Bush doctrine, United States Supreme Court rulings she disagreed with (other than Roe v. Wade), and publications she reads regularly, even if she never shed her striking bravado.
To detractors who say that you cannot tell a vintage Armani of, say, 20 years ago from an Armani of today - a criticism that was levelled against him after his major retrospective in New York a few years ago - he would cite the word "consistency".
To detractors, its unusually broad authority seems like government overreach.
To detractors, it's a shoddy plan that gives Iran an economic boost without permanently neutering its nuclear program.
