objection
uhb jek shuhn
- n the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
- n the speech act of objecting
- n the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent
- n (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality
- Some academic skeptics make a practical objection: The majority of kids who make a virginity pledge, they argue, will still have sex before marriage but are less likely than other .
- To proposals to control atomic bomb manufacture by international inspection, the objection was that, if inspection failed, the consequences would be fatal to all nations which .
- If that objection smacks secular readers as relying too heavily on scripture, then Bock's larger point is still trenchant: "I told them that there were too many assumptions .