The phrase "alleviate criticism" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing ways to reduce or lessen negative feedback or judgment about a person, action, or situation.
Example: "The manager implemented new policies to alleviate criticism from the staff regarding the recent changes."
Alternatives: "mitigate criticism" or "reduce criticism".
The first minute of the new film, which focuses on Keesey's college graduation and job offer from the firm Deloitte, doesn't really help alleviate criticisms that the campaign is more about the filmmakers than it is about the LRA.
Rank-and-file members of both parties have balked, but Democratic leaders say they are determined to move ahead after tweaking the initial proposal to alleviate some criticism.
Frances Osborne may be married to the chancellor but, whatever the motivation behind her choice of literary subjects, it is plainly not a desire to alleviate media criticism that the present government is too posh.
The latter regarded this as an opportunity for expansion and for diverting the energies of their own fractious military establishment and alleviate the criticism of the Islamic scholars by championing jihad, and dispatched an army to aid him.
At the end of the month, Humphrey began to court Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts as a possible running mate, hoping the young Senator would increase his chances of winning the support of liberals, and alleviate the criticism spawned from his connections to Johnson.
In the end, critics suggest Tillerson's prior acknowledgement of climate change as a problem and proposed solutions were more about alleviating criticism levied against ExxonMobil, and less about effecting real change.
Since, as mentioned above, AECL has incurred budget overruns, the sale of its stocks to a private company could alleviate taxpayers' criticisms of the Federal Government.
Government officials originally claimed that a new law would alleviate some of the criticisms leveled at Uganda by allowing homosexual behavior if it is between consenting adults and acted upon in private — a change that Museveni welcomed after the original bill was shot down.
As far as I can tell, the specific elaboration is to incorporate more modern theories of reinforcement learning as the mechanism to reduce the "drive" and in so doing manage to alleviate a couple of criticisms of Hull's work (e.g., how secondary reinforcers such as money can operate) as well as account for a number of behavioral phenomena.
Gov. David A. Paterson's proposal to pull money from an environmental fund to help alleviate New York's financial woes is meeting with harsh criticism from environmental groups, who say that it sets a troubling precedent.
