But the more the Internet's hive mind worked through the data, the weaker this critique looked.
The critique unmasks weak spots in our understanding of and dealing with complexity.
It is a weapon of the weak, a way of critiquing the world by stepping outside of it, if only for the span of a joke.
(See, "Democrats, Republican accusations of being weak on... ..) The Democrats' critique of Mr. Bush's conduct of the war in Iraq certainly contributed to their victory in midterm elections last November.
Sen (1970a) offered another critique of the weak Pareto principle, showing that it conflicts with a 'liberal' principle.
Nevertheless, while it may be true that Valla's individual arguments are sometimes weak, superficial, and unfair, his critique as a whole does have an important philosophical and historical significance.
This is the origin of the critique that Sanders has weak gun-control credentials for a progressive.
Their 7-2 record has been dissected and critiqued because of their weak competition and the failures in their two biggest tests, one-sided losses to Washington and Tennessee.
And Romney's critiques — didn't support the green revolution; weak on the Polish missile defense trade — are stock critiques and familiar.
The politicians' critique of Bloomberg as a weak communicator is, in a certain sense, the inverse of the average voter's: it's not that the Mayor is arrogant and unfeeling; it's just that he comes across that way.
Chua, as you probably know, is the Yale professor who has written a bracing critique of what she considers the weak, cuddling American parenting style.
