Critics described it as a backward step that would lead to fewer female voices at a time when the gender balance on the BBC has come under close analysis, from TV panel shows to Radio 4's Today.
However, as Wales' form and predicament is discussed while Howley's coaching and selection come under harsh analysis, the former Wales and British and Irish Lions scrum-half emphasised the players at his disposal are 'on message' with the management's demands.
Not since Euripides' Medea or Racine's Phèdre had the tragic aspects of sex come under such powerful analysis.
If Phillips had been appointed to the American supreme court, where judges come under forensic political analysis, there is no doubt that he would be identified, and perhaps pilloried, as a liberal.
Like other forensic methods, ballistic analysis has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years, and its reliability has been challenged in court.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Lack's analysis has come under attack by a vast industry that depends on steering clients into alternative investments, among them the London-based Alternative Investment Management Association, a lobbying group that issued a detailed rebuttal.
This analysis, however, has come under significant criticism for its dependence on uncontrolled and spontaneously reported events and for its bias in focusing exclusively on pancreatic events.
In recent years, however, the art itself has come under more scientific scrutiny, especially through the analysis of brushstrokes.
Individuals became 'at risk' at the date of first occupational exposure to asbestos, but did not come under observation and start contributing to the analysis until entry into the study or 1978, whichever came later.
The bureau's lab work has come under sharp criticism in recent years for problems over DNA analysis, bullet tracing and other important forensic technology.
