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be open to abuse/criticism
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be (wide) open to [abuse/criticism etc.]
to be likely to be abused, criticized etc.. The system is wide open to abuse. It's a position which leaves them wide open to criticism. You don't want to lay yourself open to attack.
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and also be open to criticism of potential problems with past marketing efforts or with that often-sacred cow, editorial.
He argues a strongly realist line and his position seems to me to be open to criticism on a number of grounds, but none of the papers in the 'methods' section of the collection takes him up.
She strongly believes that for feminism to survive it must be open to criticism and that critics of feminism should be viewed as friends who want to improve feminist philosophy rather than as enemies who are portrayed as contributing to the destruction of feminism.
 
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