(n.) The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.
(n.) That which is, or may be, presented in opposition; an adverse reason or argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection to going; unreasonable objections.
(n.) Cause of trouble; sorrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(2) Theoretical objections have been raised to the use of He-O2 as treatment regimen.
(3) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(4) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(5) Further improvement of results will be possible by early operation, a desirable objective.
(6) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(7) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(8) The objective remission rate was 67%, and a subjective response was observed in 75% of all cases.
(9) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of different culture media used for maturation of bovine oocytes on in vitro embryo development following in vitro fertilization.
(10) Reversible male contraception is another objective that remains beyond our reach at present.
(11) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
(12) To alleviate these problems we developed an object-oriented user interface for the pipeline programs.
(13) The objective of this work was to determine the efficacy of an endoscopic approach coupled to a Nd:YAG laser fiber in performing arytenoidectomy.
(14) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(15) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(16) In this way complex interpretations can be made objective, so that they may be adequately tested.
(17) This paper provides an overview of the theory, indicating its contributions--such as a basis for individual psychotherapy of severe disorders and a more effective understanding of countertransference--and its shortcomings--such as lack of an explanation for the effects of physical and cognitive factors on object relatedness.
(18) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
(19) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(20) Among 71 evaluable patients 25% showed objective tumor response (three complete, 15 partial), at all three dose levels and irrespective of the major tumor site.
Objector
Definition:
(n.) One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) • This article was amended on 10 September 2013 to correct the number of conscientious objectors in the first world war from 6,000 to 16,000 and to clarify that conscientious objectors were not executed.
(2) Yet some members of the church who profess desire to adhere most strictly to the teachings of Christ are the most vehement objectors to behavior that most resembles what his might have been.
(3) Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling breached all those, absurdly calling objectors 'job snobs'.
(4) How many online objectors read CS Lewis’s Narnia books in their formative years?
(5) A government figure insisted that local people would still be consulted, but that a few objectors would not be able to stand in the way, according to the Times.
(6) A cabinet reshuffle predicted for Thursday could see him remove objectors but also potentially leave him struggling to govern effectively.
(7) Some of the objectors are ideologically opposed to what they see as the privatisation of state education; others are worried more practically about an overflow of children who won't get into the new academy, fearing it will create a sink school nearby.
(8) The episode is said to have told against him in 1977 when the incoming President Jimmy Carter nominated him as director of the CIA , but withdrew the nomination when he learned that the Chappaquiddick involvement might prevent his approval by the Senate; his registration as a conscientious objector with his draft board just after the second world war may also have been a factor.
(9) A self congratulatory delusional breed of non -conscientious objectors.
(10) While some papal experts had concluded that the pope’s meeting with Davis represented an endorsement of her role as a conscientious objector – because she went to jail for five days after refusing to fulfil her duties – the author Michael Sean Winters dismissed those arguments.
(11) Even the objectors – and there were, in town, plenty of them; petitions and letter-writing campaigns and a Facebook page organised against what a large number of locals saw initially as a vanity project and, above all, a criminal waste of money – now seem largely won over.
(12) You had delays as some are conscientious objectors.
(13) And in this seething, darkened bearpit, the night belonged to Campbell and Nevin, not the objectors and whingers off stage, with their agendas and their microphones.
(14) Photograph: Mamoun Fansa Fansa, who moved to Germany in 1967 as a conscientious objector and was then unable to return home to Syria for the next two decades, has assembled a team of architects, town planners, engineers and fellow archaeologists, who together have formed the initiative Strategies for the Reconstruction of Aleppo.
(15) Krugman, his blog and comments on Twitter, have become the focal point for objectors worldwide.
(16) In 1977, he joined the Daily Express, where he toiled away as a worthy if unglamorous reporter until Richard Desmond's arrival propelled him – a conscientious objector to pornography – into the arms of the Mail on Sunday and a weekly column where he could be as unlike his brother as humanly possible.
(17) Conscientous objectors at a peace demonstration at Dartmoor, Devon in 1917.
(18) The US, New Zealand and other countries have sought a sanctuary in the pristine waters of the Ross Sea for the past decade, and there are hopes that previous objectors Russia and Ukraine will agree to a new, smaller proposal when the nations that regulate Antarctic fishing meet next week in Hobart, Australia.
(19) From them it goes to the abolitionists and peace crusaders of the years before the Civil War, the anarchists and pacifists at the beginning of this century, the sit-down strikers of the 1930s and the conscientious objectors of two world wars.
(20) Of the non-objectors, 55% wished their permission to be asked first, and 92% wished to be informed of the result, i.e.