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Greeted with a hail of criticism from Congress, he reversed himself.

His demand that Jews in politics identify themselves as such - which he has since acknowledged was a mistake - brought a hail of criticism.

In India, the nuclear document has been met with a hail of criticism, almost all for its timing rather than its content.

She did not name names, which drew a hail of criticism from the news media and the wrath of some of her competitors.

Oliver Stone, operating under a hail of criticism, was finishing a revisionist movie about the Kennedy assassination.

That prospect has brought a hail of criticism of the Bush administration for holding a double standard when it comes to those who commit terrorist acts.

That unleashed a hail of criticism from followers, who wondered why Pacquiao wasn't fulfulling his political duties.

But BP's report invited a hail of criticism from oil industry observers, who waved off BP's data as unfounded.

When coalition ministers began to bring forward legislation in 1919 they met a hail of criticism, from Liberals hostile to decontrol and Unionists lukewarm on social reconstruction.

If recent defeats have brought a hail of criticism, they have also brought an absence of overconfidence, said goalkeeper Peter Rufai.

Since casting his vote for Ninfa Segarra on April 4, Dr. Hamer has come under a hail of criticism from many black politicians, educators and parents.

While the Bush administration subjected him to a hail of criticism for suggesting a "tax increase," what the senator has proposed is merely a postponement of cuts that have yet to take effect.

In a related development, boy-band heartthrob Jason Geddy, who almost dated Ms. Street, is facing a hail of criticism for nearly seeing someone else during the actress's hostage ordeal.

Under a hail of criticism, the Administration quickly retreated today from its policy of reducing welfare benefits for elderly, blind and disabled people who receive free food, clothing or shelter from churches and charities.

Warner later wrote that he was accused of selecting Bosanquet out of favouritism as they played on the same county team, and received "a hail of criticism and disapprobation" as a result.

The state's top gambling regulator resigned today to take a job with the giant Indian casino he had been charged with overseeing, bringing a hail of criticism from legislators who called the move a conflict of interest.

Bravo, backed by the West Indies Cricket Board, refused to do so and received a hail of criticism from an indignant South African press while finding support at home as a human rights campaigner.

In February 1993, President Salinas aroused a hail of criticism from opposition parties when, at a private dinner, he asked 30 of Mexico's most powerful executives to give $25 million each to the PRI.

The leader of the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, began a hail of criticism of the Supreme Court decision this afternoon, describing it as "full of cynicism and arrogance" and "frankly interventionist."

Edwin Meese, who resigned as Attorney General in a hail of criticism over his ethics, blamed his troubles on political partisans, disloyal and ambitious underlings and an overzealous special prosecutor who said he probably committed crimes.

After promising repeatedly to make political competition in Mexico more fair, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has provoked a hail of criticism by soliciting wealthy business executives to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to the governing party.

But under a hail of criticism and facing two class-action lawsuits "relating to consumer complaints," and an investigation by the New York Regional Office of the Federal Trade Commission, the company last week recalled all copies of the product.

Even after agreeing to drop a bitterly disputed tax plan in a hail of criticism, Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's coalition Goverment grew more divided today, delaying the completion of a critical package of measures for reviving Japan's recession-battered economy.