Big new buildings, such as the British Library, tend to attract brickbats rather than praise.
Not driving the various players of society into their respective corner and asking them to throw brickbats at each other.
But it is plaudits rather than brickbats that will now be coming his way after his efforts in the hosts' 2-0 triumph.
Some of the heaviest brickbats being hurled at Mr Milosevic are from people who blame him not for starting the war but only for losing it.
David Ford took a lot of brickbats from both the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists, which may betray anxiety that Alliance could eat into their moderate territory.
And, although some might hurl anti-monarchist brickbats, victory in the race for the Queen would be a massive moment for the sport as well as for her.
Microsoft is getting brickbats from developers unenthused by its forthcoming operating system(s), and the BBC is the latest to join the chorus.
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Not all of Mr Obama's recent appointments have encountered brickbats.
When Luc Bondy's semitransgressive "Tosca, " which opened the Met's 2009 season to critical brickbats, returned in the spring of 2010 with new and excellent principals, it looked like a different show.
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Japan came to the meetings fearful that it would be criticised for doubling the money it plans to have in circulation, a move that has sent the yen tumbling, but its action brought few brickbats.
Now I'm proud of the fact incidentally, I mean you know I know I get a lot of brickbats on this, I'm absolutely proud of the fact that we've got successful entrepreneurs, that we've got disaffected Conservatives who look at the state of the Conservative Party, say that's hopeless, that's incapable of governing the country properly and support the Labour Party.
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