Sentence examples for perceived critics from inspiring English sources
Rights activists say the law is so obscure that it can be applied at official whim to stifle perceived critics.
Huge sound trucks circulate here every day, often parking near the offices of perceived critics of the emperor and blaring denunciations and militarist hymns at earsplitting volume.
But in a sense this was the easy part: the tactic of documenting the Scientologists' "handling" of perceived critics has been a staple of docs on the subject for many years, with an honourable mention going to the 2007 Panorama film in which reporter John Sweeney was tailed and pursued and ended up going shouty-crackers during a visit to a Scientology museum.
"At its core, this is an abuse-of-power case involving a sheriff and sheriff's office that disregarded the Constitution, ignored sound police practices, compromised public safety and did not hesitate to retaliate against his perceived critics," Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said at a news conference here.
The persecution of Shouwang and a number of other unregistered churches coincides with a wider clampdown in China, fueled by unrest in the Arab world, which has led to the detention of scores of dissidents, rights lawyers and other perceived critics.
He turned on all perceived critics, especially on followers of a Turkish Islamic scholar, Fetullah Gulen, whom he accuses of running a "parallel state".
Just weeks after Mr. Netanyahu was perceived by critics as having meddled in America's presidential election by criticizing President Obama's approach to Iran, the Israeli leader's strained relations with Washington are emerging as a hot electoral issue in Israel.
Her 28-month tenure was pitted by tensions within the Bush administration that left her perceived by critics as ineffective.
"There is an unseemliness about scientists willingly providing data to their friends and resisting the provision of data to people who are perceived as critics".
Women who write smart, demanding novels are perceived by critics as strange and unnatural, "like a dog standing on its hind legs", the novelist AS Byatt tonight told the Edinburgh international book festival.
The bits of newspaper symbolised the conflicting fictions upon which nations are built and the encaustic, an unstable material, was perceived by critics to be a metaphor for the unstable nature of identity.
