Companies that acknowledged they received the objections include the UK-based Perspex owner Lucite International and German chemicals companies BASF and Degussa.
The objections include the secret nature of the hearings, suspects' inability to choose their defense lawyers, and the potential bias of the United States officers who would sit as judges.
The objections included cost concerns and lack of a business plan, as well as reduced property values, increased traffic and noise and vibrations in Palo Alto — all "with little or no benefits to us".
The objections included everything from the desirability of preserving the historic facade to the need to pump Mozart into stalls at a nearby Thoroughbred farm to calm jittery horses during construction.
All other versions of the theory, however, have to cope with the objection, including the view that truth is coherence with a set of propositions believed at the limit of inquiry.
Opponents of the tunnels have expressed numerous objections, including the effect on the environment and concerns about tourism and the agricultural economy.
After several years of quiet negotiation and a tacit agreement to jointly name Chinese bishops, the Patriotic Association has since 2010 consecrated four bishops over the Vatican's objections, including Joseph Yue Fusheng, who was ordained Friday in the northern city of Harbin.
They acknowledged that some American intelligence agencies had resisted the conclusion and had voiced "very legitimate objections," including the possibility that the suspicious movements involved something far more benign: commercial chlorine-manufacturing activity.
Even before the secret detentions were officially confirmed, the practice drew widespread objections, including from within the Bush administration.
Ebbecke shot down the idea, raising a number of objections including the fact that Mendes had already done a film on the same topic in England and the concern that German audiences might confuse the proposed film with Feuchtwanger's novel which was not antisemitic.
