Sentence examples for lingering objections from inspiring English sources

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Some Republican senators blocked a vote for this week, given lingering objections about Mr. Geithner's failure until recently to pay about $34,000 in payroll taxes on his income at the I.M.F. from 2001 to 2004.

Also on Wednesday, the Senate confirmed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, by a vote of 94 to 2, a day later than scheduled because of lingering objections by some Republicans.

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In "An Unspeakable Word Is the Word That Has to Be Spoken," published in the Sunday magazine, the author, Jenny Diski, rather creatively addressed a distinctly feminine obscenity: bits of literary history concerning it, BBC bloopers using it, the lingering cultural objection to it, and her own call to actually use it in print.

Nevertheless, the compatibilist's opening objection lingers: Nothing yet shows that the only ways to acquire water thoughts, under EXT, are in the ways catalogued so far (Ball 2007).

Officials say that despite lingering prejudices against the disease, they have registered few objections to the bridge's construction from Doyang, the town on the other side.

"I have absolutely no objection to Jon taking his enormous personal wealth and trying to buy a seat in the United States Senate," Mr. Franks said, lingering over every word.

But Franken was lingering.

No lingering.

Lingering hope.

Look for lingering symptoms.

It lingered.

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