Example sentences of "open to the objection " in BNC.

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1 But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate .
2 ‘ As a task for all alike this is clearly open to the objection , among others , of inequality .
3 The measured dose of external radiation might be a surrogate measure for internal exposure to radionuclides or to chemicals ; such alternative explanations are still open to the objection that there are no generally accepted data on humans to support this .
4 No doubt it is open to the objection that it presupposes the very point in issue , namely the law which is to be applied , but such a solution seems just as sensible in this context as the rule that the law governing the validity of a contract is determined by the law which would govern the contract if one assumed it to be valid .
5 Such a scheme would undoubtedly provide a greater degree of certainty than under the present law but would be open to the objection that it would leave without redress any persons suffering injury from an unlisted activity , whether omission arose from ignorance of the risk or commercial or political pressures on the government of the day .
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