serious objection

collocation in English

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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objection
noun[C]
uk
/əbˈdʒek.ʃən/us
/əbˈdʒek.ʃən/
the act of expressing or feeling opposition to or dislike of something ...
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(Definition ofseriousandobjectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofserious objection

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Parity of esteem and the other maximally egalitarian commitments of the agreement met with noseriousobjection.
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This leads me to the mostseriousobjection, namely, that the proposed solution does not actually deliver the intuitively obvious payoff-dominant solution.
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However, a moreseriousobjectionmay be found in the near neighbourhood.
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But the mostseriousobjectionis surely that the suffixes -st/-nd/-rd/-th are sometimes used for other purposes than to designate ordinal numbers.
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Another and even moreseriousobjectionto postulating (61) is the violation of timewise symmetry.
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My considerations on vibrations elicited great interest and noseriousobjection.
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A moreseriousobjectionto the above estimates is that they do not consider the differences in procreativity that are associated with different ages for both women and men.
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A moreseriousobjectionto placing reliance on the solution obtained in this section is that the stream velocity falls to zero at y = -yo.
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I do not think that that is aseriousobjectionto giving information.
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I do take the mostseriousobjectionto it.
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However, it is aseriousobjectionfrom our point of view to fixing the figure so high.
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I take it that it is rather aseriousobjection.
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There is a yet moreseriousobjectionto this proposal.
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The fact is that, they consider there is a much moreseriousobjectionfrom a professional point of view.
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A secondseriousobjectionto relying on existing legislative provisions is that there would be great difficulty about town and country planning control.
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That is a veryseriousobjectionto the tax.
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But, quite apart from the practical limitations of random checks, a much moreseriousobjectionwas that people have never really thought them fair.
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I do not think that we would haveseriousobjectionto them.
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