21.   By contrast Iraq, isolated on the world stage, was slammed for its terror tactics against many sectors of society, including Kurds in the north.

22.   Media executives slammed for network deal with doomsday cult.

23.   On the high end of the fashion scale, Tokyo designers have been both lauded and slammed for their intellectual, non-intuitive approach to Western design.

24.   Republicans who have spent months calling Reno too timid in investigating leaks from Los Alamos slammed her for being too aggressive with Lee.

25.   The Atlanta Games also were slammed for being overly commercial, because of huge exhibits from official sponsors and scores of street vendors scattered among the Olympic venues.

26.   They slam him for appointing himself commander-in-chief after a tense showdown with his defense minister this spring.

27.   They have slammed it for focusing on financial measures such as copyright infringement while leaving out provisions to fight online racism.

28.   A high-profile opposition lawmaker called on the government Tuesday to make public the results of its probe into the blast, slamming it for making little headway.

29.   Bush openly clashed with Mubarak on the peformance of Arafat, whom the United States has slammed for failing to stop the suicide bombings.

30.   But the Central Asian state has often been slammed for running a Stalinesque regime, which has sought to repress religious and political opponents and the independent media.