Since the death of Poulantzas there have been one or two attempts by Marxist and neo-Marxist theoreticians to accommodate some of these substantive criticisms.

It is not that they object to "substantive criticism," they later insisted.

As a result, focus has been shifted away from substantive criticism in depth with more cogent criticisms having gotten side-tracked.

But ask him about the more substantive criticism of his and the Administration's performance on China and the rest of Asia, and his mood shifts.

The dam's social impacts received the majority of substantive criticism (see below).

"It is hard to take seriously academics who condemn an independent scholar without making a single substantive criticism of his work," the editors retort.

But the more substantive criticism is that many of Mandel's future scenarios were simply not realistic, and that in reality things turned out rather differently from what he thought.

And therein lies the nub of most of the substantive criticism the paper has incurred.

"There has been little, if any, substantive criticism about this national strategy," Mr. Bush told reporters at the White House.

The major substantive criticisms of Satin's work have remained constant over time.