Normally, the newspapers manage to attack China's critics without quite repeating the criticisms.

Ministers have been quick to use this undoubted scandal to attack critics of the planning proposals.

Depardieu soon returned the favor by attacking Putin's critics.

Some industry analysts said G.M. was taking a significant risk by aggressively defending itself and attacking its critics.

A1 Hillary Rodham Clinton attacked critics of her health plan.

The executive director drew particularly strong applause when he attacked critics of his leadership within the organization, whom he depicted as hypocritical.

People within the administration criticized Magaziner's blunt and domineering approach, attacking critics who disagreed instead of trying to build consensus.

He had a sharp tongue, and used his polemical skills vigorously to attack critics of his own behavior or of the Government's.

But even last month he won no friends when he needed them, by attacking critics of his latest budget deal as "perfectionists" and "petty dictators."

Mr. Rumsfeld and General Myers did not name names when they attacked critics of the plan.