Had West Indies lost it would have merited severe criticism for its ultra-defensive selection and tactics.
Not because the cringing press release issued by our Cairo embassy just as the protests were gathering steam didn't merit criticism: The speed with which the White House repudiated the release basically testified to its indefensibility.
If associational privacy is important, a bored visitor strolling the halls of a hospital should not maneuver to watch a randomly selected patient give birth; and if he does, he merits criticism as a morally offensive intruder.
"I note that on the basis of a tiny number of cases of fraud and malfunctioning, which did indeed merit criticism, the committee's report paints a picture of total absence of responsibility on the part of the institution and its officials.
His remarks hardly merit serious criticism; but I was struck by his honest admission that he does not take the Bible literally.This can only imply that he does not believe in the New Testament accounts, which are the foundation of Christianity.
But the committee said that in the end, it found the account "credible" and concluded that the professor's "rhetorical response to her query exceeded commonly accepted bounds by conveying that her question merited harsh public criticism".
The Merck-Medco relationship was "a lightning rod for criticism, whether merited or not," the chairman and chief executive of Medco, David Snow, said.
My view of it is the criticism is merited because of performance -- or lack of performance, because of incompetence.
As mentioned, a lot of the criticisms are merited, and we should absorb them, consider them, and act upon them.
But daytime television doesn't seem to merit much serious criticism these days, or cultural oversight; it has become a fact of life that these shows escape examination or community outcry.
Even when the criticisms were richly merited, the overall effect of the hostility of his parliamentary party was to sanctify him in the eyes of activists who saw him not as the source of their party's tribulations, but the victim of them.
