He has persistently criticized Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney for reducing immigration quotas from Poland, and Ukraine to Canada.

On the CBS program "Face the Nation," Senator John McCain, who has persistently criticized the Bush administration for dispatching too few troops to Iraq, said Sunday that the Pentagon should send 15,000 to 20,000 more troops to help stabilize Iraq.

This page has persistently criticized Mr. Clinton's conduct and abuse of the truth, and we are prepared to see the impeachment process through to a resolution if he remains unwilling to concede that he lied under oath.

The Administration's record on cities, which has been persistently criticized at the five-day conference, which ends Wednesday, was defended today by Samuel R. Pierce Jr., the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Its specialist, academic, authoritarian elements have been persistently criticized, partly because they ignored progressives' demands for children's activity, participation and development through discovery, and partly because of the perceived irrelevance of this education to the lives of working-class children, the majority of whom have failed to benefit from it.

A.D.M., based in Decatur, Ill., was embroiled in a price-fixing scandal in the late 1990s and had been persistently criticized for lax financial management.

The appointee, Martine G. Guerrier, a veteran education advocate who had persistently criticized Mr. Bloomberg on education issues, joined him yesterday at the Queens churches.

"That's the irony of it," said State Comptroller Edward V. Regan, who has persistently criticized the state's one-shot measures.

Of all the potential mayoral candidates, Mr. Goldin has been most convincing about his plans to challenge Mayor Koch, whom he has criticized persistently on fiscal and other matters.