How To Use Criticize In A Sentence

The compilation(techniques) of legislation law and the limitations of statute law such as hysteresis effect are the(fundamental)reasons why Legislation Law is criticized.
The report criticized a former commissioner and two device division leaders for their role in approving Menaflex. FDA to Revoke Knee-Device Approval, Saying It Erred
In heaven the seraphim criticize the cherubim, who look down on the thrones: the original bureaucracy. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
The sad fact is that if the Democrats had tried to make a big issue of the matter the press would have criticized them unmercifully for spoiling the 100th birthday celebrations of a great man with their petty partisan politics.
Don't lose your tempter, act too aggressive, or harshly criticize your children.

In the Whispering Gallery at the presidential library and museum, Aidan was blown away by political cartoons of the day that criticized Lincoln for his stance on slavery.
These verbs mean to reprimand or criticize angrily or vehemently.
Watching Nixon's henchmen come out of the woodwork to declare their moral indignation at the ethical lapses of Mark Felt was tantamount to watching Liza Minelli criticize someone else for being an an unstable boozehound.
And Obama was taken back when there was an outcry over his lamebrain ideal and he criticized the vets for not being patriotic. 2012 can't come soon enough! Obama shifts focus to Iraq, Afghanistan wars
Eighteen months later an appellate court reversed the convictions and criticized the conduct of the trial judge and the prosecution.
He particularly criticized the terminology in the document.
I believe that was a shot at those of us who criticize bilingual education, but it was hard to tell.
Students are encouraged to take an active part and regular sessions are held in which they can criticize their teachers.
She lets me do all the work, and then she has the nerve to criticize my cooking.
It is often criticized for its aggressive behaviour towards visitors, and male dogs can get out of hand if not strictly controlled. Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
When you were the defending champion the next year, you were criticized by the British press for showing up late to a function and acting like a boor.
Some alumnae also criticized Collins for removing the college's mission statement from its website.
He was criticized for his tough stand on immigration.
After the war, he opposed peacetime conscription, denounced British neocolonialism, praised the United Nations, and criticized congressional isolationists.
The group remained steadfast in its support for the new system, even when it was criticized in the newspapers.
Chuck Banker, pro personnel director of the Philadelphia Eagles, is tired of the team being criticized for losing defensive players.
In the morning, he sharply criticized Jones for maverick marketing policies and accused him of trying to tear down the league.
It criticized the company for long working hours, a "militaristic" work culture and mass employment of low-wage vocational college students. Reports Allege Continued Abuse at Chinese Electronics Firm
At the same time, Gaon, the Israeli playwright, attempted to use his version as a way of providing the audience with a more balanced view -- the duel of the Palestinian and Israeli narratives, if you will, which goes back to 1948 and Israel's War of Independence and the Palestinians' Nakba Disaster That may explain why Gaon has been criticized by both Palestinians and Israelis. Leon T. Hadar: Return to Haifa: Whose Narrative Is It Anyway?
He criticizes the author for underestimating the mutability and interpenetration of cultures.
“You rarely hear Palin criticized for being such a bad governor as opposed to other Republican governors.” Matthew Yglesias » Palin and the Jews
Supreme Court after that court criticized Florida for lacking what they called a unified standard of counting ballots. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Florida Gov. Jeb Bush Presides Over Electoral Vote Casting in Tallahassee - December 18, 2000
He shouted something about the Disk Jockey being a "bunkie" (whatever that was) and made a disparaging remark about the Disk Jockey's costume (like he was in a position to criticize), before hurling a punch that had a lot in common with some express trains. The Sinister Six Combo
she criticized him scathingly
He also criticized racial theories. The Times Literary Supplement
American Federation of Teachers, also criticized the evaluation system and what she called the chancellor's "destructive cycle of hire, fire, repeat. NYT > Home Page
Standards of discipline at the school were strongly criticized in the inspector's report.
But she was criticized as a showboat for her victory prance around the field with an enormous fake gold medal dangling from her neck and a cell phone pressed to her ear. The Bad Girl of Women’s Soccer
I heard someone criticize them once for never using two-dimensional characters.
From his vaguely defined methodological stance, Snooks criticizes Darwin's use of analogy.
Both the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees criticized the raid.
The opposition criticized the government's ramshackle economic policies.
Introduced the history background, instruction process, think idea of architect, main style and its success in art of the Firenze Cathedral, and used culture critique modern to criticize it.
Like Hegel, Adorno criticizes Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena by arguing that the transcendental conditions of experience can be neither so pure nor so separate from each other as Kant seems to claim.
The author went on to criticize his refutation of productivity-related theories.
The infinite regulation of cosmos has the characteristics of source, ego restriction, criticized inherit and infinite equilibrium of objective self-contradiction.
Look at all these knee jerk reactions which criticize the U. S. for "imposing" its values on China.
But ” and this is a fundamental difference between the situation in physics and the situation in history ” a historian may protest against the inclusion of data in the material to be colligated on grounds of interest or value in a way that is foreign to the method of physicists when they criticize each other. Letting Go
If you criticize him, it's like a red rag to a bull-he gets absolutely furious.
The magazine also criticized ‘the polemical, partisan mean-spiritedness that lies at the heart of his book, and to an even greater degree, his television appearances flacking it.’
Clinton did not mispeak, she was again misinterpreted by the rabid Obama fans that look for any excuse to criticize her campaign. Clinton apologizes for RFK assassination comment
Consumers Union criticized the FDA for using antiquated and insensitive laboratory techniques that could not measure Alar below 500 parts per billion ppb, stating in Consumer Reports: "Looking for daminozide [Alar's a trade name] in apple juice with PAM II [the test method used by FDA] is like trying to catch speeders with a radar gun that doesn't work for speeds under 100 mph. Wendy Gordon: The True Alar Story III
Additionally, he is criticized for overuse of complex words and syntax.
• The rally has also been rightly criticized for pretending to be non-political while talking in apocalyptical terms about the country going in the wrong direction under the current administration. David Coates: The Hijacking of the Almighty
This seems awfully similar, to a noneconomist such as me, to the pretense of knowledge that Austrians have so well criticized, starting with the socialist calculation debate. Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists
I told her I had two concerns -- that we needed a voice that would transition us to a new economy, challenge pre-emptive wars, regardless of whether the wars were waged by Republicans or Democrats, and that we needed a congress person who would advocate for a just and lasting peace in the middle east, someone who would not be afraid to criticize Israel, to fight for equal rights for both Palestinians and Israelis. Marcy Winograd: Mubarak, Harman Walk: Winograd Considers a Run
This situation would even have Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo - so severely criticized by Su - sighing in regret over having lived in the wrong era.
Or, as in the Brezhnev period, they were so emendated in a cretinized two-volume edition of Tkachev's works (in whose introduction the Soviet editors also criticized me and my book on Tkachev ” the first in English about him) as to be unrecognizable ” either as essential Tkachevism or as examples of proto-Bolshevism foreshadowing Lenin's ideology. Lenin & 'The Radiant Future'
CheckEnclosed: I can understand a certain descriptivist reticence to criticize improper use of the term, but will not give up the fight for its proper use. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Beg the Question”
Is this the way to criticize an administration that seems to have some fascistic tendencies?
It was not undertaken to support, refute or criticize contemporary urban and regional theory.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This defense of war crimes is combined with denunciations of those who expose or criticize them and attempts to further cow an already pliant media.
People have lost the ability to pay attention, and all films that aren't whiz-bang, Bruckheimer action fests are criticized as too slow.
In the past, civil rights groups have criticized the redistricting process for working against immigrant and African-American communities on Long Island, and while lawsuits have sought to address the problem on a case-by-case basis, electoral representation in communities of color will be a pressing issue in the coming weeks. Ted Hesson: Forum: Redistricting and Its Impact on Long Island Communities of Color
He doesn't criticize the vice-president marketing's expert judgement nor pretend he could do better himself.
Don't criticize her - she's your own flesh and blood.
You can ill afford to criticize others when you behave so badly yourself.
The opposition coalition criticized the tax-free zones as exploiting women textile workers and as creating dependence on foreign countries.
While men might employ poetry or oratory to criticize women, women compose and sing songs about men.
According to the blog, test viewers criticized a rough cut of the pilot for seeming too much like "The Office" and featuring no "datable" male characters. The Rise of the Likable Jerk
They criticize King Saul heavily, lionize David, praise Solomon and deplore the division of the country into northern and southern kingdoms. Douglas Knight: Biblical Israel's History Viewed From Inside And Out
Peter was criticized for having failed to take advantage of its favorable position for trade.
It's the only thing anyone can grab onto and criticize from a very qualified individual. look at the rest of her judicial record. you may not agree with some of her decisions, but that doenst make her unqualified to be a supreme court justice. Graham: Confirmation likely barring 'complete meltdown'
We've all been tormented by self-appointed experts who regularly criticize the weekly choice of music. Christianity Today
He railed at his daughter Susan for being chubby (he wanted her to be as sleek and blond and country-clubbish as the daughters of his neighbors), criticized his son Ben for being a sissy, and seemed to love only his youngest child, Federico (born in Italy). John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes
TOTENBERG: Republicans have also criticized Kagan for what they call her heroes: the two judges she clerked for after law school, federal appeals court Judge Abner Mikva and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, as well as former Israeli Chief Justice Aharon Barak. At Confirmation Hearings, GOP Eyes Kagan's Record
The massive boardroom pay awards were criticized by the workers.
The report also criticized the government for refusing to allow Amnesty observers into the territory.
Woman-centred psychologists also criticize the gender bias of traditional psychological method.
He reviewed the treatment accorded the single tax on land values in several texts and was criticized by one commentator for the causticity of his criticism of them.
The government's interference in the strike has been widely criticized.
He was the first to break the consensus and criticize the proposal.
Oil companies were heavily criticized when they made large profits during the oil crisis of the 1970s.
The decision was criticized by environmental groups.
Human rights groups criticize maquilas for not providing better security for their low-wage, largely female work force.
Those who try to get patients to understand how their own actions have contributed to illness are often criticized for "blaming the victim. Love, Medicine and Miracles
On a visit to Ohio, Obama again criticized the health insurance industry to make his case for a revamp of the system to rein in what he called abuses by insurers, declaring it is time for "health insurance reform, right now! Reuters: Top News
He finds the source of skepticism in the theory of abstract ideas, which he criticizes.
Tutu also criticized what he called the dangerously flawed intelligence used by the U.S. and Britain to justify military action in Iraq. CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2004
Thomas Gandow, criticized what he called the frequent belittlement of Scientology in the media and the indecision of politicians to work towards banning the organization in Germany. Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
You can ill afford to criticize others when you behave so badly yourself.
Schuette-Lihotzky did make women's lives a lot easier," Kinchin says, "but she has been criticized by feminist critics in the 1970s for actually isolating women in the kitchen.
The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality.
You deserve to get criticized and if you cannot stand them, quit! landshark Obama takes aim at Fox News
His films have been criticized for being overly violent.
The review panel criticized the payments as overly generous.
John F. Kerry criticized Bush for failing to conduct adequate diplomacy before waging war on Iraq.
They are often criticized for producing "poverty porn" for Western audiences; their detractors call their - oeuvre the "cinema of squalor" — a label Philippine critic Lito Zulueta decries as unfair. Daring Filipinos Not To Look Away
Evy Hambro , joint chief investment officer of BlackRock's resources investment team, criticizes stock-market investors for what he calls "short-termism" and for writing off the entire mining sector. Mining Companies Take the Long View
At that time, it would not have been thinkable to openly criticize the government.
She has openly criticized the government.
The author whom you criticized in your review has written a reply.
Critics in France and across Europe criticize the continuing practice, but Mr. Sarkozy insists the deportation is needed and will continue. 3 Questions: Roma Rights and Wrongs
The moderate Republican Schwarzenegger had criticized Obama in his only appearance of the general election campaign with John McCain - the Friday before the election in Columbus, Ohio, site of Schwarzenegger's annual Arnold Classic sports festival - as "scrawny" and a big taxer. William Bradley: Obama's California: The Arnold Alliance and More
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. " James Arthur Baldwin.
On gypped: I think Allie's point was, all things being equal, why is "gypped" accaptable in our nomenclature, but one is criticized for the similar expressions; "jewed," for example. "Cleuless" is Right
Clinton's AIDS "czar" resigned after being criticized by gay activists for being weak.
Boy, the ridiculous right is like a spoiled four year old: never happy, refusing to agree with anything because its far more easy to be a coward and criticize from the sidelines. Obama: Bailout for Main Street
That Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, jailed 20,000 people without charges, forcibly shut down hundreds of newspapers that criticized him, and sent in federal troops to shut down state legislatures was irrelevant because he proclaimed “that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” #200 for Abe the Warmonger « Antiwar.com Blog
Lisa gets criticized for being "apathetic" -- Tom says she focuses more on flavor and less on technique. Jane McGivney: Top Chef: Better Late than Never, Right?
It's so easy to criticize someone elses culture when there is no chance of vindication from the other party. Matt Reeves Explains Why He’s Remaking Let The Right One In | /Film
In one verse he introduced a sideswipe at the repressive legal system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (again something he criticized in his earlier historical novel, Barnaby Rudge).
Amiridis and other school officials, wary of potential opposition from political leaders who have already criticized colleges and universities for what they describe as inefficient and duplicative growth, stress that the Greenville medical program will not be a "new" medical school. TheState.com: Homepage
Porter criticizes especially the unhistoric, absolutistic and positivistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and he tends to be polemic in this context.
Its relative accessibility was cited as a positive counter-example by a critic in 1747 when he criticized the Crown for keeping its art treasures behind closed doors.
You shouldn't just focus on the faults or difficulties and criticize the country.
Instead of criticizing EW, maybe you should criticize your elementary shool teachers (or your capacity to read). David Letterman's extortion scandal: Will it affect his ratings? | EW.com
New Liberalism, Communitarian and New Left criticize fierily the weak government theory of Neo-liberalism.
Finally, Aristophanes commented Athenian law court system. He criticized that the jurors lacked of responsibilities, civic officials accepted bribe and orators hindered the justice.
Molotov lost the post of foreign minister in 1949; and, from 1952, his career fell into eclipse when Stalin criticized him at a Central Committee plenum.
Some French commentators criticized the president for what they called his inconsistency over China and human rights. China Slams Sarkozy for Ties to Dalai Lama
Only in magazine illustrations are designs uninhabited, a practice that has been much criticized. A Philosophy of Interior Design
His newspaper articles criticized friend and foe alike.
Hugely criticized for embarking on a European "joyride" as flood waters swelled across Pakistan, the fact that Zardari was in London around the time of the sale may be evidence enough for malcontents. Beenish Ahmed: Did Pakistan's President Zardari Buy Record Breaking £140 Million London Apartment?
To create and criticize at the same time is like watering and pouring weed killer onto seedlings at the same time.
A few months ago, Chomsky had harshly criticized "collaborationist" Fatah Security Forces for doing the Israeli occupation's dirty work of suppressing resistance to the occupation. Omar Baddar: Missing the Nuance: Abunimah's Criticism of Noam Chomsky
Feldstein also criticizes the temporary subsidy for new car buyers "cash for clunkers" as "misguided," but in an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Jan. 29, 2009 , he proposed a "temporary refundable tax credit to households that purchase cars or other major consumer durables. Debating Professor Feldstein's Proposals on Stimulus
As Schopenhauer does , Kierkegaard criticizes traditional rationalism and Christian theology and initiates modern humanism.
Later medieval chivalry has been criticized for being decadent and other-worldly, yet it never lost touch with the changing military dimensions of war nor was blind to its bloody realities.
I'm on a fixed income and have been criticized countlessly from family and friends. Carville: Gore would make a great vice president...again
When mentioned, it's often to misconstrue the word as meaning "blind obedience to parents" and then to proceed to criticize it.
But what he also did was layer on top of that a number of extreme measures, such as the so-called private vows, whereby each legionary took an oath never to speak ill of Father Maciel, never to criticize him, and to report to any superior even mild criticism within the ranks that anyone might have. Latino Catholics Confronted By Sting Of Sex Abuse Scandal
It's not fair to criticize without giving her the chance to answer back.
He used his question time largely to criticize Republicans as suffering from what he called an "allergy to science and scientists. NYT > Home Page
As far as I have heard, the passengers, crew and authorities all acted calmly and appropriately," said Ian S. Lustick, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Trapped in the War on Terror," a 2006 book that criticized what he called the exaggerated response to terrorism. Post-gazette.com - News
Criticize the moronic politics and you get a sermon about not reducing works of art to a simplistic set of objective declarations.
The 30-month sentence has been criticized by Australia and the United States as too lenient.
Roy used the philosophical ideas found in the earliest Hindu scriptures to criticize the polytheism and some of the practices of popular Hinduism, such as sati.
Crowd gives speeches, prays, chants as Egypt's 7th day of protests begins Lakers forward Ron Artest isn't a presence this time around against Boston Timothy Bradley might take on Amir Khan in a title unification fight Bubba Watson, Phil Mickelson and Jhonattan Vegas produce riveting drama at Torrey Pines Sarah Palin harshly criticizes Obama's State of the Union address 69 comments Sign me up for the following lists: Latimes.com - News
My boss criticized my sloppy personal appearance.
The mayor was criticized by radical reformers for his indecisiveness.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A top Vatican official has criticized a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow the world's first clinical trials using stem cells derived from human embryos. Vatican Blasts FDA Over Stem Cell Ruling
Local people, who want to turn the church into a museum, have criticized what they termed the confrontational approach to the issue in the past few days by Rev. Ed Keeping, the parish rector. Canada.com Top Stories
It may seem harsh to criticize him after his death.
A preliminary look at the data indicates that the administration, oft criticized for an all-guy clubbiness, hasn't done much recently to improve that image. Obama administration makes progress in hiring
They were severely criticized by the chairman, who was not a man to mince his words.
Sheridan depicts drug-filled cesspools not to criticize or protest, but to claim that they form merely the bottom rung of an ever-ascending ladder of success.
Ernst Cassirer criticized consistently and deeply the three kinds of universal determinism which included physical one, psychologic one and metaphysical one in the history of western philosophy.
The unions have criticized management over their handling of the dispute.
At $62 per ton, the salt takes a serious chunk of the city's $66-million snow removal budget, which has frequently been criticized as miserly.
The law was widely criticized as racist.
Many authors have criticized Derrida's attempts to find an ethical basis for deconstruction.
Finally, the author criticizes the sanctity of life concept by arguing that it is a form of idolatry of biological life and that it absolutizes this life by forgetting that there is a life to come.
The author believed that these criticize speciously, with historical actually not symbol.
Mistakes must be criticized and poisonous weeds fought wherever they crop up.
Criticize or defend this claim in terms of evidence based on the information presented in chapters 3 through 6. 14.
The editorial criticizes Reagan for failing to follow through on those democratic revolutions.
That's the term angry business owners have started using when they feel unfairly criticized on the popular review site. BusinessWeek.com --
He criticized the the United States for what he called meddling in Egyptian affairs. Iran expresses support for protests in Egypt and North Africa
For this I was criticized by those who appreciate the combination of firearms, streetwalker fashion, and boob-skin stretched to the absolute limits of elasticity. Booth Babes?
The event was criticized by leading feminists for its gender exclusivity.
I am not making fun of this guy - who am I to criticize this sort of monomania, after all.
Walton also criticized Sixto for accepting a job in the White House, knowing that he had been stealing from the center, an independent institution that receives millions of dollars in USAID funds for rent, travel and equipment such as shortwave radios and laptops. AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
Suddenly you are criticized if you are a rogue shotting from the shadows instead of being out there with everyone else. D&D 4e’s Out… And It’s Awful. Here’s Why « Geek Related
Though often criticized as offering a “watered-down” version of Christianity, Warren dismisses this critique. American Grace
It may seem harsh to criticize him after his death.
After one particularly bland interview, a reporter waspishly criticized the starlet.
People have also started to criticize pass judgment on them.
Mr. Baker, criticized by some for seeming too angry in televised debates, is polling well among angry voters, drawing 89% in one recent Boston Globe poll of those who see the state as "on the wrong track. Deval Patrick's Charm Offensive
The word "signals" jumps out: Elsewhere the author criticizes the homunculi little men, making quite difficult determinations, that pervade putative neuroscientific accounts of the mind; there is more than a hint of a homunculus in the notion of neurons that "signal" to one another. Rethinking Thinking
The ECB has sent somewhat mixed signals at times about the desired level of the euro, and a variety of actors have criticized Duisenberg and others for not presenting a more coherent front.
Is there not one prominent rugby union footballer or journalist who is compelled to criticize this scandalous and absurd state of affairs?
The result is that for sending in the report to criticize the employee's punished.
'Stonor's too content just to criticize, just to make his delicate pungent fun of the men who are grappling -- very inadequately of course -- still _grappling_ with the big questions. The Convert
he criticized the woodenness of the acting
In a personal email correspondence, Dr. Walter Ewing, Senior Researcher at the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) further criticizes CIS for muddying the national health care debate with their anti-immigrant agenda. Wonk Room
The magistrate criticize the lawless behaviour of the football crowd.
Blogs are also criticized, for their "standardized designs" that encourage "pseudonymity" in features like blog comments. Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0
He criticized the school for trying to subdue individual expression.
A number of Puritan clerics in Old England harshly criticized their New England brethren for not converting the Indians before killing them.
Criticize and object a flight of stairs that is progress.
He was a very sparkling, mercurial personality, quick to embrace you, as well as to criticize if I felt that something wasn't right.
He also criticized the European Union for being a toy for political elites and civil servants, detested by the people for its largeness of scale, bureaucracy and megalomania.
Memoirs are often criticized for being excessively exhibitionist and insufficiently insightful. The Times Literary Supplement
He criticized Bevin for lack of imagination - surely an inverted compliment given its implication of positive contributions in the past.
Subsequent generations of Biblicists have followed suit, and by dint of their efforts they have legitimated and routinized the right of an individual to criticize the sacred.
During the city council's final session, council members criticized the current state of the Bali Hai pier and admonished the bureaucracy for their lack of care for the venue.
The airline has been criticized for failing to heed advice/warnings about lack of safety routines.
It was also criticized for failing to anticipate the catastrophe.
Williams also criticized the Governor for sitting cross-legged with a "dot on his forehead," and described the ceremony as "polytheistic. Mike Ghouse: Senator Williams' Remarks Offended Hindus
Whenever anyone criticizes her husband, she immediately jumps to his defence.
Weber strongly criticized Marx's attempt to explain all social cleavages as the product of economically based class structures and struggles.
The police have been sharply criticized for their handling of the affair.
Those who try to get patients to understand how their own actions have contributed to illness are often criticized for "blaming the victim. Love, Medicine and Miracles
Greenspan himself has been criticized by economists for being a major factor in the stock market's slide.
As an example of the former, Wiseman applies his wonderfully analytic mind to question specific prior efforts to criticize the conclusions of the Feilding Report.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton last night criticized the Bush administration for its response to Iran's nuclear program, saying it had chosen to "downplay" the crisis over the past several years. Election Central Morning Roundup
Since the February election, the administration has been criticized for handing out unscrutinized contracts to cronies, giving hefty unapproved pay raises and spending government funds for personal uses. Stroger-Run Jobs Program Loses Millions Through Mismanagement
Women also think men do not care about many things important to women, which is why they criticize. Criticism is a way to verbalize resentment.
She started to criticize me, then she suddenly backed off.
the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research
The report also criticized the department for refusing to accept that new roads generate more traffic.
Some of its members have vocally criticized the church's opposition to abortion and the canonical regulation on priestly celibacy, although the organization takes no official position on either issue.
You'll be bringing a storm about your ears if you try to criticize their way of doing things.

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