Nonetheless, they said the new objections were serious enough to threaten the constitution.
Theodore B. Olson, who was solicitor general for President George W. Bush and now represents the plaintiffs challenging the ban, said he had a theory about the new objections.
In a hotel ballroom in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad where the ballots were being recounted, he testily confronted one of Mr. Maliki's allies, Hussain al-Shahristani, the minister of oil, about the new objections.
Their new objection: Democrats are seeking a one- to two-year "pause" for across-the-board spending cuts and an extension of expired unemployment benefits for two million people.
But the two senators and other elected officials said the administration seemed to raise a new objection every week, suggesting it wanted to run out the clock on the current Congressional session and delay an inquiry for months.
In the last few days a new objection to action on the China issue has surfaced: right-wing pressure groups, notably the influential Club for Growth, oppose tariffs on Chinese goods because, you guessed it, they're a form of taxation — and we must never, ever raise taxes under any circumstances.
Late last year, just before the limitations were to take effect, the operators presented a new objection to the F.A.A., saying that industry studies raised safety issues by suggesting that too many flights were being funneled into too little airspace in some corridors where the agency wanted flights restricted.
This critique of prior distribution influence on posterior probabilities is a well-known and not a new objection to Bayesian analysis cf. [52],[52].
In the new letter, Prince, Andrus, and nine others, including chimpanzee advocate Jane Goodall, raise a new objection: The virulent HIV strain may be too "hot".
In 1999, a new objection to the teaching of evolution was used in Kansas: that evolution is controversial or contentious.
