1.   Critics credited big money and news media for the public apathy.

2.   Backers of the system say critics naively credit foes with great powers.

3.   Admiring critics have credited him with exercising a moral force on his public.

4.   Even critics credit him for fashioning a harmonious country out of a combustible mixture of Malays, ethnic Chinese and Indians.

5.   Critics credited vote buying and rigging.

6.   Critics credit good scripts and the ability of directors like Antonio Mercero to weave in with a deft hand issues that concern Spanish viewers.