Sentence examples for objection means from inspiring English sources

"The government recognizes that the attorney general's objection means that the deposition cannot go forward and obligates the court now to dismiss the indictment unless the court finds that the interests of justice can be served by another action," the department said in the papers filed in Federal District Court in Alexandria, Va.

In online and social media forums, parents conveyed confusion about whether an objection meant a family could opt out of the data release, and guessed at the implications of such a wide-scale disclosure and what kind of legal precedent it might set.

They added: "In practice, the attempt to alter school curricula in response to individual objections means privileging the moral or religious beliefs of some families over others.

When the prosecution protested, Mr. Marino called their objections "mean-spirited".

But the sheer number of formal objections meant the application had to go to a vote of councillors on the planning committee.

Channel 4's most publicised decision of the year was the poaching of The Great British Bake Off from BBC1, which, regardless of any other objections, meant that a network set up with a remit of originality was resorting to a policy of: here's one that someone else made earlier.

Norway also kills hundreds of whales each year, under a loophole known as the legal objection, which means it simply refuses to comply with the moratorium.

They must have figured that no objection would mean no controversy, which in turn would mean there would be no cause for complaint from U.S. observers.

As I told Greene on Twitter, this objection is meant as a quibble rather than a sharp objection.

His objection merely meant that the Senate would have had to go through the time-consuming process of cloture votes to break filibusters, as they do on other legislation.

Utilitarians often try to finesse such objections by means of various rule-based strategies e.g., all of us will ultimately be better off if we are allowed to favor close relatives in certain circumstances but such attempts to "save the phenomena" of ordinary morality often lack plausibility.