But to many critics of the city's policy, the issue is not simply a financial one.

Both liberal and conservative critics of the Administration's policy have used human rights as an issue on which to make points.

He said the bombing today might also quiet some critics of American policy.

He has been a frequent critic of the President's policies.

Since the early 1990s, she has been a vocal critic of China's economic policies and its human rights record.

That authority has been used to exclude foreign critics of American policy.

Lieberman has been a vocal critic of Bush's environmental policy.

Several critics of the city's policies for the homeless said the report lacked many details.

Now, after 18 months in office, the president is getting the results he needs to silence the increasingly vocal critics of his conservative economic policies.

As an emigre, he was a critic of Soviet domestic and foreign policy.