11.   During the last Republican primaries, Barbour was a leading critic of the candidacy of McCain.

12.   During the Reagan administration, Thomas made a splash in conservative circles in Washington as a leading black critic of affirmative action.

13.   Even a leading critic of the U.S. nuclear complex said processes at manufacturing plants have improved since the early days of the nuclear age.

14.   For decades Moynihan has been a leading critic of the welfare system and a penetrating analyst of changes in family structure.

15.   His military experience made Mansfield a leading critic, a half-century later, of the war in Vietnam.

16.   Helms, a leading critic of the United Nations, has been ill and cannot make the trip, officials said.

17.   In his early years in the Senate, Dodd was best known as a leading critic of Republican foreign policy, particularly in Central America.

18.   In Washington, Sen. Jesse Helms, the leading congressional critic of the United Nations, welcomed the development.

19.   Leading congressional critics of the tobacco industry reacted with caution and some suspicion Friday as news of a settlement became public.

20.   Not a problem, says Rebecca Mercuri, a Bryn Mawr computer science professor and leading critic of paperless voting.