Sentence examples for trivial objections from inspiring English sources
It means: to raise irritating and trivial objections; to find fault with something unnecessarily, to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections.
It's why voters feel alienated, yet the attempts to change the culture always seem to founder on someone's trivial objection.
Like many of those men, Roiphe would like to short-circuit this larger discussion, as if everything that doesn't meet the legal definition of crime were trivial, and any objection to it mere paranoia.
Bureaucratic policy-making and speculative notions about those who "deserve" treatment are trivial (though money-saving) objections to our duty to help men and women who have fought our wars.
Mr Kerry subsequently and unconvincingly suggested that all six powers were still on the same page and that it was the Iranians who had balked at the last moment, needing to consult back home.None of France's objections is trivial.
But supporters of the bill brushed aside the governor's objections as disingenuous or trivial.
He begins with the trivial and moves to more serious objections, first comparing the inconveniences of motherhood to such "monthly indispositions" as gout and the common cold.
Against this objection, Avicenna maintains that apparently trivial human actions are motivated by unconscious desire for pleasure, the good of the animal soul (Richardson 2015).
Several philosophers have argued that rigid designation for kind and other general terms faces a serious objection: rigid designation for kind terms is trivial (Soames 2002; Schwartz 2002; Martí 2004).
The BCP proper is thus stronger than the relatively trivial conclusion of Hájek's argument, and correspondingly more vulnerable to objections. 5.
One objection asserts as obvious that certain human actions are trivial or purposeless (ʿabath); the example given is playing with one's beard (Avicenna MH: 220 225).
