First, he criticised "grade inflation", the process of awarding pupils ever higher marks (half the grades given to undergraduates were As).
Earlier, Republican Sarah Palin, criticised for marking Ms Giffords' district and others with the cross-hairs of a gun sight during last autumn's campaign, had taken to Facebook to accuse pundits and journalists of using the attack to incite hatred and violence.
In Iran two state-television channels were criticised for marking the new year against backdrops of religious shrines and heroic pictures of Mr Khamenei.Though they issued seasonal messages of defiance, the opposition's two main leaders carefully avoided exploiting the festivities for political ends.
In 2012 HMC published a report exposing the "truly shocking" failings in the way exams are marked; the union criticised weaknesses including poor marking, inconsistencies between exam boards and fluctuating grade boundaries.
He criticised the "rush to mark-make, or to write when they should be mark-making before they have actually been squeezing things and climbing things and hanging from things".
The Community Secretary suffered a humiliating defeat in the Lords last night over a major overhaul of council tax criticised as a "poll tax mark two".
Kagame subsequently won elections in 2003 and 2010, although human rights organisations have criticised these elections as being "marked by increasing political repression and a crackdown on free speech".
In America, his tenure of the Cleveland Orchestra (1972-82) was criticised by his successor, Christoph von Dohnányi, as marked by an over-preoccupation with authoritarianism and beating time rather than phrase-making, but again the discipline could hardly fail to impress.
The Met has been criticised following the death of 29-year-old Mark Duggan at the hands of armed officers.
Miller criticised the BBC Trust for being "slow off the mark" in dealing with the crisis, but added that Lord Patten was now acting "decisively".
In a speech marking Women's Day, Mr Rouhani criticised "those who consider women's presence society as a threat" and said Iran still had "a long way to go" to ensure gender equality.
