objector

[ UK /ɒbd‍ʒˈɛktɐ/ ]
[ US /əbˈdʒɛktɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who dissents from some established policy
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How To Use objector In A Sentence

  • Like other conscientious objectors, he was called to a tribunal. Times, Sunday Times
  • The legislation could have given a right of appeal to the objectors in the same way as it is given to applicants but this it has not done and they are dependent on the limited powers of this court to intervene by way of judicial review.
  • While I fully appreciate the concerns of the objectors at the recent public inquiry.
  • He registered as a conscientious objector and was summoned appear before the tribunal set up to judge the sincerity of 'conchies'. Between silk and cyanide
  • Eight objectors have written to the council saying a new licence would mean loud music, late night drunks, loss of parking and damage to their cars.
  • Anxious to avoid confrontation with pacifists, the authorities made life relatively easy for the objectors.
  • As conscientious objectors, this was a way for them to do their part for the war effort. Smithsonian Mag
  • Initially a conscientious objector, he joined the army in 1941 and wound up a captain in the Middle East.
  • During the First World War, he was a conscientious objector and worked on road-digging and similar tasks.
  • In that period, there was huge public hostility to the conchies (conscientious objectors), who had refused to fight.
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