The hedge fund Brevan Howard Asset Management asked the Royal Bank of Scotland to change the rate five years ago, and the bank "received this request without objection," according to papers filed in a lawsuit, Bloomberg News reports.
Over Chris Landau's strong objection (according to former Supreme Court clerks) — and in spite of Scalia's vote to the contrary — Thomas voted to reverse the conviction of a man who had been charged with receiving child pornography through the mail, on the ground that he had been entrapped.
Mill (1861, 359-360) also discusses (and rejects) the objection according to which if non-electors are fit to influence electors, they ought necessarily to have the franchise.
Another example of an objection to objectivity, according to communication scholar David Mindich, was the coverage that the major papers (most notably the New York Times) gave to the lynching of thousands of African Americans during the 1890s.
Lawmakers opposed to the budget cuts have listed thousands of separate objections, according to Giora Pordes, the Parliament spokesman.
Managers at major banks ignored widespread errors in the foreclosure process, in some cases instructing employees to adopt make-believe titles and speed documents through the system despite internal objections, according to a wide-ranging review by federal investigators.
Over the next four years, the board rejected versions of the plans at least three times — continually raising new objections, according to the Weinrebs — although the experts, including an owners' representative, had signed off on them.
Google has four weeks from the administrative order to raise any objections, according to Kühn.
More than two-thirds of U.S. women voters oppose allowing corporations to refuse to cover contraception in their health plans because of religious objections, according to a new poll released Monday by Hart Research Associates.
But this objection fails, according to McTaggart, because the additional times that are invoked in order to explain t's possession of the incompatible A properties must themselves possess all of the same A properties (as must any further times invoked on account of these additional times, and so on ad infinitum).
With a similar argument Bolzano replies to the objection that according to his principle the moral value of our actions would depend on mere chance, as the following example seems to show: "If someone with the intention of killing his neighbor drew a dagger against him, but accidentally only opened a boil and this were now healed thereby, he would have performed a good work".
