Even some Democrats decry the action, calling it a misuse of the legal system for political ends.

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Some critics decry the quality of the standards, including their focus on adding more nonfiction or "informational" text to classrooms, which they argue crowds out literature.

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Such a law could keep federal authorities from employing what some media lawyers decry as overly aggressive tactics.

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Currin is considered a virtuosic painter but has rankled some critics who decry his pictures of vapid women as heartless kitsch.

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That leaves some 5, 000 regional chambers that are not, some of which decry the Chamber's combative culture: dozens distanced themselves from it during the mid-terms.

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They turn instead to Salafist preachers who decry corruption (and in some cases languish in prison) or to secret societies associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, or to the constitutionalist movement, started by liberals, that has a growing Islamist component and can thus serve to import the ideas of the Arab spring.

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They rightly decry the unhealthily close ties of some European politicians to their counterparts in Russia.

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" We can't really recall Apple ever being much into this "choice" thing of which he speaks, but he went on to decry Intel's practices as having stifled growth in the PC industry, and then went in for some rhetorical action: "Knowing Apple, why would they want to be held hostage like everyone else has been?

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