But critics immediately assailed the changes as having limited, if any, value.

However, recent critics have assailed this connection with various degrees of success.

Critics also assailed the policy's assumptions from a number of different directions.

Critics, some of whom demonstrated outside the meeting, assailed the vote as destructive.

Critics assailed him as flitting from one trendy idea to another.

Critics assailed the Bush administration for stalling negotiations on the document.

When his books were first published, many critics immediately assailed his methods.

After costs soared to about $400 million, critics assailed the Government for waste and extravagance.

Some critics assailed the film as representing a "fascist ideology."

Critics, however, assail the practice as an anachronistic political oddity.