Sentence examples for objectionable given from inspiring English sources

In its complaint last October, the Navajo Nation singled out the panties as "derogatory and scandalous," along with a Navajo Print Wrapped Fabric Flask, an association the group considered particularly objectionable, given that the sale and consumption of alcohol is banned on the 25,000-square-mile reservation.

If they speak to you in any way that you find objectionable, give them one warning, as mentioned in your opening statement.

The line of reasoning might be morally objectionable ("give a dog a bad name and hang him for it") or it might be unfair to permit the drawing of the inference when the opponent was not given a fair opportunity to challenge it (as in the hearsay situation) (Ho 2008: chs. 5, 6).

In fact, critics of college admissions usually find a particular type of preference objectionable, and give a pass to other types that are as much or more offensive to meritocratic principles.

It's common for literary authors to give objectionable characters a veneer of decency for us to see through; that's not what Erpenbeck is aiming for.

More than one minister in the Major and Blair governments broke convention by publicly attacking not only decisions they found objectionable but the judges who had given them..

Therefore, it is exceedingly easy for an opposition researcher to sift through these supporters and come up with a handful of individuals that any given interest group finds objectionable.

Mostyn added: "I can see nothing objectionable in the press reporting that testimony was given in court about this company, but it would be quite wrong for it to say what the testimony was.

Compare the emphasis put on preserving employment in France, for example, with the respect given to creditors' rights in Britain.What is really objectionable is retroactive changes to insolvency regimes.

"Least objectionable programming" began to give way to target marketing on selected segments of the network's schedule.

Given 20 years distance, it is hard to remember what was so objectionable about him.