Victims groups and activists, who had sought more serious charges, criticized the verdict.
French officials, who said they were deeply embarrassed about what they called a serious leak, criticized the broad dissemination of the cable and have started a leak investigation.
From the start, Mr. Reed and Ms. Kagan resisted the idea of a race commission, sending a March 1997 memorandum criticizing "serious flaws" with the idea and arguing instead for a multiday White House conference followed by town-hall-style meetings.
Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, is making a serious mistake in criticizing Bruce Springsteen over "American Skin," his song about the shooting of Amadou Diallo (news article, June 13).
Mr. Pifer said any agreement would test whether Republicans were serious when they criticized New Start for neglecting tactical weapons.
As riots engulfed American cities and a more militant black politics threatened to overshadow the civil rights paradigm, Mr. Poitier, a canny political thinker and a serious activist, was criticized for being insufficiently race-conscious.
And @realDonaldTrump seemed serious when he criticized the costs of a new Air Force One jet and an F-35 program at least, the markets took him seriously, as stock prices of Boeing and Lockheed Martin (the companies with those government contracts) took a tumble.
The undersecretary of state for nonproliferation, John R. Bolton, was in Uzbekistan today, a country that the United States has consistently criticized for serious violations of human and religious rights but where allied aircraft have landed.
for producing a "serious" budget plan but criticized him for not proposing any way to raise revenues while transferring "more responsibility onto our seniors in terms of paying for health care".
The "Real Time" host got deadly serious on Friday to criticize the "politicized" FBI and implore the media to report on the "right-wing coup" that's slowly taking over the country.
The double standards are obvious: a movement of executions in Saudi Arabia will be globally criticized and serious action will be taken, but the massacres that Syrians are facing every day aren't worth interfering for and the suppression of opposition voices in Egypt goes completely ignored because the actual Egyptian government aligns with Western interests.
