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Opposing & against

objector | Business English

objector
noun[ C ]
uk /əbˈdʒektər/us
a person who disagrees with or disapproves of something, and tries to prevent it or refuses to take part in it:
Environmentalists are calling for a better system for objectors to respond to new developments.

Examples of objector

objector
The objector is worried about persons who may only do moral good in a feasible world in which others do significant wrong.
He agrees with his objectors that laws are well-established features of the world, but denies that the natural (physical) world is all there is.
An objector might claim that workers or consumers can know which citizens have contributed without paying for it.
Here is a brief sketch of a reply to the objector.
The objector might assert that the second assumption is similarly superfluous.
Other objectors were more cautious and more inventive.
Our objector's second modification asks why this last fact matters.
The objectors might press their point by turning to consider another case.
The objector points out, however, that once we have an independent standard of relevance, practices themselves might be able to determine which models are correct.
The objector grants my argument that without an independent standard of relevance, practices could not determine which models were correct.
The objector might conclude that non-market production systems are as capable of rewarding persons' contributions as well as market systems.
It is the very existence of such an entitlement that the objectors deny.
Conscientious objectors make no claim to represent a shared sense of justice.
The objector might reply that my response is a problem for any counter factual in which enslavement does not occur.
The first objector suggests that the radical position we have proposed is indicative of the arrogance endemic to academics engaged in philosophical theology.
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