61.   Through lobbying, lunches and persistent overtures to the harshest critics, she was able to keep the agency alive, but just barely.

62.   Through lobbying, lunches and persistent overtures to the harshest critics, she kept the agency alive.

63.   We handicap the committee, looking at who will likely to be the defenders to the end, the harshest critics and those in between.

64.   We are often our own harshest critics, and we have a tendency to hear only criticism from others and not their praise.

65.   When I became a sportswriter, she became my biggest fan and occasionally my harshest critic.

66.   Yavlinsky has detractors, but even his harshest critics concede that he may be the strongest candidate reformers have.

67.   Yet even the harshest critics of cellular phones could not cite a case in which a phone has caused a death.

68.   Yet what the IOC will do inside its headquarters at the lakeside Chateau de Vidy in Lausanne may well fall short of what its harshest critics are demanding.

69.   Also saying the IOC needed to do more was its harshest critics among corporate sponsors.

70.   But it also is one of harshest critics of alleged human rights abuses by Indonesian troops controlling East Timor.