Synonym: challenge, complaint, criticism, disapproval, dissent, protest. Similar words: objective, projection, section, election, infection, selection, collection, reflection. Meaning: [əb'dʒekʃn] 
n. 1. the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest 2. the speech act of objecting 3. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent 4. (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.
n. 1. the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest 2. the speech act of objecting 3. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent 4. (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. 
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61. A further possible objection to gradation is that it limits the sentencing powers of the judge.
62. There is also a larger reason for considering the objection about the place of causal and other nomic connections in science.
63. That objection was quite simply that the courts of this country have no power to make the order applied for.
64. Yet this objection is easily answered once the hormonal theory is taken into account.
65. But there's a more serious objection than that, you know.
66. Assuming licensees and magistrates act sensibly in seeking and granting approval, I can not see any strong objection to this.
67. The objection to the claim is that it is mere assertion or, more kindly,(http://sentencedict.com/objection.html) an act of faith.
68. The most fundamental objection is that the government could be ignoring its long-term obligation to manage the debt cheaply in favour of short-term gains.
69. The major objection to the percutaneous approach is the possibility of tumour dissemination in the track.
70. Protestors welcomed the official objection although some were concerned that different government departments had clashed over the matter.
71. Some seek personal de-criminalisation and rehabilitation, others have a more fundamental objection to man-made laws and courts as such.
72. A request that prosecution witnesses be tendered for examination was not tantamount to an objection under s 102.
73. Sometimes counsel for one of the parties in a case will make objection to a particular judge hearing the case.
74. It appears that Mrs Thatcher's main objection was the amount of public money involved.
75. For example, salespeople of media space in newspapers which are given away free to the public often encounter the following objection.
76. The objection, again, is that we do not in our standard causal thinking have or use such an idea.
77. Donkeys have no objection to donkey work, but they can not stand being taken for racehorses or tractors.
78. An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability.
79. This conflict is illustrated by the question of conscientious objection in war time.
80. This Lecture is open to the same objection in that it focuses on a very limited range of issues.
81. Sometimes this results in a major objection being reduced to one which can easily be dealt with.
82. But the main objection to classical foundationalism is that there are no infallible beliefs.
83. An extension of linear programming which overcomes this objection is that of goal programming.
84. Locke faces the objection that there is no historical evidence for his account of the creation of political authority.
85. Cantor had no objection to their working late; he even encouraged it.
86. The failure of this objection stems from its confusion of a great mistake with a clear one.
87. In this situation the salesperson should question the nature of the objection in order to clarify the specific problem at hand.
88. She showed no objection to Billy scaling the ladder to look in.
89. My objection to his high heels was that he would do himself a mischief if he had to bale out!
90. He also, at first, saw conscientious objection as a key to mobilizing opposition to the war itself.
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