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Sir Christopher said he supported the ban but had been objecting to parliamentary procedure.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024

And many had been objecting for a long time to what seemed the complacency, at best, of Wilentz, Wood, and others regarding the history of slavery and racism in America.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2021

A shrewd old Fife hearer of sermons had been objecting, in the usual exaggerated language, against reading sermons in the pulpit.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman