Word: objectionable
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The program was passed by the state legislature over the objection of opponents who argued that it would only encourage drug abuse. But proponents pointed out that 18% of the 77 new AIDS cases that surfaced in the last half of 1989 were directly or indirectly caused by IV drug...
The procrastination apparently is due to strong resistance from the shipping and oil industries. One objection involves the timetable for putting double hulls on current tankers. The main obstacle concerns limits on the liability of tanker owners. The shippers want the U.S. to approve international standards adopted since 1984 by...
Many dissidents held Liza responsible for not preventing the hunger strike. It should have been obvious to them that Liza had no way of influencing our decision. The refusal to let her rejoin Alexei may have been the immediate cause of the strike. But in a broader sense, it was...
The bishops' critique was the work of a six-member committee headed by Alabama's Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb, 58, the chairman of the bishops' doctrinal committee. (Individual U.S. bishops, like those elsewhere, will also be sending separate responses to the Vatican.) The Lipscomb panel's chief objection is that the...
Critics charged that the school's opponents were partially motivated by race, noting that little objection was raised when the primarily white Lincoln Institute for Land Policy moved into the space.