This contradiction attracted ample criticism; some critics believe that China's policy is designed to protect domestic industry.
And when they started struggling soon after, they found ample criticism.
The State Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, has faced ample criticism over his opposition to an income-tax surcharge on high-earning New Yorkers.
But that did not stop Mr. Castro, apparently still smarting from the slights and pressure, from offering ample criticism after a quick summary of the United States' own history of expansion to the West and into Latin America.
And despite the ample criticism that has been lobbed at hedge funds and private equity funds since 2008, there has been little traction in attacks on the premise that the best funds really don't deliver high returns.
Page A14 New York AN ACTOR AND A SENATOR ARGUE OVER TAX POLICY The State Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, has faced ample criticism over his opposition to extending a temporary income-tax surcharge on high-earning New Yorkers, including a spat with the actor Alec Baldwin.
But the United States and Britain receive ample criticism too: for exaggerating the dependability and accuracy of their intelligence, for insisting that Iraq possessed mobile biological weapons factories and nuclear weapons programs when in fact it did not, for trusting the reports of defectors too much and for disparaging the track record and the future potential of weapons inspections.
The lecture, which was partially organized by CAFE, had drawn ample criticism from concerned students about its misogynistic undertones and denial of a sexual assault problem across campuses.
While ample criticism came from the right, conservative journalists were not the only ones who took issue with the Newseum's choice.
A number of high-profile, Washington state-based corporations -- including Amazon, Nordstrom and Starbucks -- publicly backed Referendum 74, despite ample criticism from some conservative outlets and right-wing pundits.
