Sentence examples for handful of objections from inspiring English sources

By Sunday evening, only a handful of objections had been submitted.

This bill passed through the Commons this week with barely more than a handful of objections from Liberal Democrats.

Hunched over in his wheelchair, thinner and paler than in 2009, Major Hasan was a quiet, soft-spoken defendant throughout the trial, making only a handful of objections and asking few questions.

NNSA concurred with the main points of the audit but raised a handful of specific objections.

"This decision has been widely understood and supported on campus, with only a few faculty colleagues and a small handful of student editor/writers raising objections," he wrote.

Approval of the declaration was delayed because of objections by a handful of Latin American countries, including Argentina and Cuba.

That pact was not formally adopted by the U.N. body after a handful of Latin American countries raised objections, but it established the idea that major developing countries would subject voluntary emissions cuts to international scrutiny while the industrialized world would mobilize $100 billion in climate aid for poor nations by 2020.

Spurred by these objections, a handful of powerful state legislators — among them the State Senators Charles Copeland and Harris McDowell III — stepped in last December and managed to force a deadlock among four state agencies that were set to ratify the power purchase agreement between Bluewater and Delmarva.

Rubio replies, "I think that's a general statement about most employers, but there are a handful of employers that have conscientious objections to it, for example the Catholic church".

Being in the TriBeCa East Historic District, the rooftop addition also needed to go before Community Board 1, which gave it unequivocal support over the objections of a handful of board members.

Overruling objections from a handful of inflation-fearing dissidents, the Fed's policy-setting committee, which begins a two-day meeting on Tuesday, is expected to resume quantitative easing, a strategy of buying Treasury securities to put downward pressure on long-term interest rates.