Sentence examples for persistent objection from inspiring English sources

The most persistent objection to agricultural biotechnology, and the most common, is that, by cutting DNA from one species and splicing it into another, we have crossed an invisible line and created forms of life unlike anything found in "nature".

A common and persistent objection, however, is that no such characterizations can capture the qualitative character, or "qualia", of experiential states such as perceptions, emotions, and bodily sensations, since they would leave out certain of their essential properties, namely, "what it's like" (Nagel 1974) to have them.

Such persistent objection to the ICC Appeal's Chamber's interpretation of the Rome Statute surely seems to at least impinge upon the consent of Kenya to be subject to ICC jurisdiction in this case.

The most persistent objections come from the people for whom driving is part of the job.

The second was abandoned a year later after its architect, Louis Frederick Reuter IV, a veteran of large project management in New York, grew tired of fighting persistent objections from Congress and United Nations bureaucrats.

For one of the most persistent objections to this sort of statement rests on the pre-existence of slavery in African society; Equiano's own father kept slaves.

A6 U.N. Restoration Plan Stalls The director of the $1.6 billion plan to restore the headquarters of the United Nations said persistent objections from the United States were causing delays in meeting deadlines and jeopardizing the future of the project.

Among the most persistent objections, raised by the Justice Department and others, were concerns that it would have given Google exclusive rights to profit from millions of so-called orphan works, books whose rights holders are unknown or cannot be found.

UNITED NATIONS, April 17 — The director of the $1.6 billion plan to restore the aging and dilapidated headquarters of the United Nations said Monday that persistent objections from the United States were causing delays in meeting deadlines and jeopardizing the future of the entire project.

The HSE has raised persistent objections to 85,000 revellers being allowed to party near the major oil pipeline.

Historically one of the strongest and most persistent objections to pantheism is that, because of its all-encompassing nature, it seems inhospitable to the differentiations of value that characterise life.