Sentence examples for critics standing from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lancaster confirmed, "There were a lot of critics standing around the field".

The event is unusual in Belarus because there are few government critics standing for election – and there is not much campaigning going on.

— PATRICK HEALY "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" was one of the most controversial Broadway shows of the season when performances began in December, but it went on to earn respect from critics, standing ovations from its many fans (the show's box office is solid), and now a Tony nomination for best musical revival and 9 others – second only to the 11 nods for the musical "Once".

And critics argue that standing back from more policy arenas would increase the country's sense of alienation from the bloc and fuel popular sentiment that things are stacked against Britain.

As of the most recent Movie City update, 121 of those "last critics" were still standing, among them Kenneth Turan at The Los Angeles Times, Todd McCarthy at Variety and Joe Morgenstern at The Wall Street Journal.

In past years distributors have been hurt by spending too much on movies that won over critics and earned standing ovations at the festival, only to fizzle at the box office.

At a news conference in the offices of the ruling National Democratic Party on Thursday, the secretary general and a longtime ally of Mr. Mubarak, Safwat el-Sherif, struck a confident tone, saying that the party wanted to have a dialogue with the nation's young people, but that in his view the critics had little standing.

But some of those who are unhappy at the way the recruitment and appointment of a new Clerk has been handled are long standing critics of the Commons Speaker, John Bercow.

But critics are still standing in the way, arguing comprehensive immigration reform would cost too much or amount to amnesty for undocumented immigrants.

Critics see you standing on a specific spot, ignorant of the roads that brought you here or those you're about to follow.

Entire review sections – especially on the Sundays – have been shut down, arts budgets are being slashed, and the critics that are still standing are having to pick and choose between productions because they cannot physically get to them all.