objection
Example Sentences
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When Columbus’s statue was yanked from Newark, N.J., the city’s mayor insisted that he had no objections to people celebrating Columbus: “We’re just asking that you not make us celebrate him as well.”
A mum has won the right to continue using an annex next to her son's house as her main home, despite his objections.
From BBC
“To date, the City has not received any objections from the community,” a spokesperson said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times
There’s an obvious objection to all this: It sounds as if we’re naively personifying a giant math problem, mistaking statistical patterns for sentience—falling for the oldest anthropomorphic error in the book.
Another familiar objection is framed as an accounting exercise: The effective tariff burden can be made lower than the headline rate if firms substitute products, re-source suppliers or alter configurations.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
