ethical objection

collocation in English

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ethical
adjective
uk
/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/
relating to beliefs about what is morally right ...
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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 ofethicalandobjectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofethical objection

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I have noethicalobjectionto every man serving his country in the best way in which his capacities permit.
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There would have been no realethicalobjectionto that.
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Theethicalobjection, of course, has always been strong, and has never been so strong as it is at the present time.
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There is another profoundethicalobjectionto the means test.
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There does not appear to be anyethicalobjectionto that research.
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One commonethicalobjectionto the consumption of animals is that their cultivation is environmentally harmful.
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However, it may be that there are ethical objections to detecting tumors but denying treatment.
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Many of these ethical objections, rather surprisingly, appealed to notions of autonomy.
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There are, however, serious ethical objections.
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It is not exactly a suitable example, but this method is not used in most states, because it meets with ethical objections.
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We must not allow fundamentalist political ideas to hide behind the cloak of ethical objections.
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There are no ethical objections to such alternatives.
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There are also ethical objections to the patenting of live organisms.
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Apart from these medical facts, there are ethical objections to the new clause.
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This would overcome the ethical objections which some people have to the storage of embryos as opposed to the storage of unfertilised eggs.
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My objection to experiments on human beings is not so much that science will make such experiments unnecessary but that there are moral and ethical objections.
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For these reasons, along with superfluous moral and ethical objections, reproductive cloning in humans is proscribed.
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There are philosophical and ethical objections, with some feeling that drivers distributed without source code are against the beliefs of the free software movement.
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Use of stem cells from amniotic fluid overcomes the ethical objections to using human embryos as a source of cells.
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