1.   Both decried the action as simplistic and ill-timed.

2.   Since suing the industry and promoting anti-smoking legislation, Humphrey has been targeted by tobacco companies in advertisements decrying his actions, Loveland said.

3.   Susan Goldberg of Direct Action Network, a protest group at the convention, decried the action.

4.   Though taxi drivers decried such actions as a complete denial of their civil rights, a defiant Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says that his administration responded decisively but reasonably.

5.   Protest leaders decried the action as harassment and said police are preparing to evict them by force.

6.   While animal activists decry the action taken by the British Society, they point out that the holidays often produce additional homeless animals.

7.   FRAPH leader Constant decried the action against his group, saying that it was solely a political organisation.