Objection is an English word with synonyms like resistance or dissent. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Objection meaning
- The act of objecting.
- A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed by the adposition to).
- An official protest raised in a court of law during a legal trial over a violation of the rules of the court by the opposing party.
Synonyms of Objection
Using Objection
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of objecting. | A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed by the adposition to). | An official protest raised in a court of law during a legal trial over a violation of the rules of the court by the opposing party.
- Useful related words include: expostulation, resistance, dissent, protest.
- In the example corpus, objection often appears in combinations such as: objection to, an objection, no objection.
Context around Objection
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Objection
- In this selection, "objection" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, conscientious, philosophical, real and exhibits stand out and add context to how "objection" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an objection has been and a meaningful objection these days. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "objection" sits close to words such as attribute, columnist and drafting, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with objection
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But if it’s assistant GM Chris Getz, there will be no objection. (13 words)
For six months the administrators governed the panchayats and nobody had any objection. (13 words)
In any event, saying something is risky is not a meaningful objection these days. (14 words)
But Glasgow Life has now withdrawn its representation, and said it was “unaware that the information provided to it by KSG would be recognised formally within the planning process as we had not made an objection to the development”. (39 words)
Council planning officers gave three main reasons to raise an objection and believe the plan “does not reasonably mitigate the effect” of the development – which can be summed up as wind farms saturating the landscape. (35 words)
Conscientious objection in line with that provided for in the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, 2013 will be allowed so as to provide a right to conscientious objection for medical and nursing personnel. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
They claimed this was because of their philosophical objection to compulsory saving, but it’s easy to see their real objection was partisan.
Justice Costmotina sustained Defense Counsel`s objection, as Prosecution Counsel Lawyer Amara did not oppose to the objection, but called for a void ell “trial within trial” for the second accused person.
Conscientious objection in line with that provided for in the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, 2013 will be allowed so as to provide a right to conscientious objection for medical and nursing personnel.
This is made explicit in the anonymous 1834 text, the first known statement of the position, and in Alford's objection in 1864, the first truly influential objection to the construction, both cited above.
A deputy secretary at the MHA was not amused by the MoD objection and retorted by saying that others could not be debarred from using the same kind of headgear.
An objection has been raised by the neighbouring Easthampstead Park crematorium, arguing the six flags are not in keeping with the current surroundings.
An objection has been submitted by the council’s conservation department citing the “high level of less than substantial harm”.
But Glasgow Life has now withdrawn its representation, and said it was “unaware that the information provided to it by KSG would be recognised formally within the planning process as we had not made an objection to the development”.
But if it’s assistant GM Chris Getz, there will be no objection.
But this objection exhibits basic ignorance of how Section 3 is supposed to work — the provision defines a disqualification from office, not a sentence or punitive measure.
Council planning officers gave three main reasons to raise an objection and believe the plan “does not reasonably mitigate the effect” of the development – which can be summed up as wind farms saturating the landscape.
Following amendments, the Conservation Officer has offered no objection to the proposal, concluded that the works will result in no harm to the character of the listed building.
For six months the administrators governed the panchayats and nobody had any objection.
He also took objection to the decade celebrations stating that Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao was promoting his party at the cost of people’s money.
He said that the bill was sent to the president for his approval, who then raised an objection.
However, despite what the UN and other human right organisations say, conscientious objection still does not have legal basis in most countries with conscripted militaries.
However, he clarified that there is no objection or opposition to those individuals who do not have any FIRs filed against them.
In an objection to the council, Sue Allan said the storage scheme would “ruin the private garden area” which was a key factor when she purchased her property.
In any event, saying something is risky is not a meaningful objection these days.
In a product meeting, he raised an objection, and an executive explained that doing so helped viewers breeze through episodes.
Common combinations with objection
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- objection to 54×
- an objection 30×
- no objection 30×
- the objection 18×
- of objection 13×
- objection was 9×
- objection and 8×
- objection from 8×
- conscientious objection 7×
- preliminary objection 7×