Council members and advocates for the poor condemned the decision.

Some educators and children's advocates have condemned the plan, saying that advertisers should not be allowed to exploit a captive classroom audience.

Some organizations that act as advocates for people with AIDS have condemned the ad, calling it disrespectful to people who have the disease because Benetton is using it to help sell its products.

From the first day, advocates for low-income housing and nearly every politician from City Councilman Charles Barron to Senator Schumer have condemned the sale by Starrett City Associates and vowed to kill the deal.

Christian conservatives and advocates of traditional family values condemn the movement as decadent and unhealthy.

Some animal-welfare advocates, while noting that most large kennels kill older, unproductive dogs, also condemn shipping them off to shelters, seeing it as a shifting of responsibility.

Amid suggestions that the former East German leader, Erich Honecker, may not be at death's door after all, lawyers and human rights advocates are angrily condemning the court decision that led to his release last week.

Some advocates for the homeless also condemned the proposed regulations, but said it might lead to positive changes.