Opponents of food irradiation sometimes state that large-scale irradiation would increase processing, transportation, and handling times for fruits and vegetables thus contributing to a negative ecological balance compared to locally grown foods.

Opponents, on the other hand, argued that requiring women to work at low pay puts additional stress on mothers, reduces the quality time spent with children, and diverts income to work-related expenses such as transportation and childcare.

Opponents often claim this technology will be used primarily to enforce digital rights management policies and not to increase computer security.

Opponents of these policies argue that comparative advantage has lost its legitimacy in a globally integrated world in which capital is free to move internationally.

Opponents of debt cancellation suggested that structural adjustment policies should be continued.

Opponents of the Lydia scenario point to the fact that coins of that era have been totally absent from archeological finds in Sardis, capital of Lydia.

Opponents to LGBT rights movements as well as activists within LGBT communities have used this type of outing as a controversial political campaign or tactic.

Opponents say that many educational agencies have adopted outcomes which focus too much on attitudes ( e. g., " Students will enjoy physical education class ") rather than academic content.

Opponents argue that schools have a responsibility to look after the health of the children in their care, and that allowing children easy access to soft drinks violates that responsibility.

Opponents of Harrison have argued that a phrase in Pope Pius XII's legislation " Cardinals who have been deposed or who have resigned, however, are barred and may not be reinstated even for the purpose of voting ", though it speaks of someone deposed or resigned from the cardinalate, not of someone who may have incurred automatic excommunication but has not been officially declared excommunicated, means that, even if someone is permitted to attend, that does not automatically translate into electability.

Opponents of traducianism are sometimes found in the pro-life movement, because many among those who hold to pro-life views are of the opinion that embryos have a soul and are to be fully recognized as persons.

Opponents of the law have criticized its authorization of indefinite detentions of immigrants ; searches through which law enforcement officers search a home or business without the owner ’ s or the occupant ’ s permission or knowledge ; the expanded use of National Security Letters, which allows the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) to search telephone, e-mail, and financial records without a court order, and the expanded access of law enforcement agencies to business records, including library and financial records.

" Opponents claim that they deviate from the text in a number of places ( for example, the Baker is supposed to have whiskers and hair, Fit the Fourth, but in the illustrations he is bald ) and hence should be discounted.

Opponents of evolution theory have often maintained that social Darwinism is a logical entailment of a belief in evolutionary theory, while biologists and historians maintain that it is rather a perversion of Charles Darwin's ideas.

Opponents of these decisions have argued that if all corporate rights under the Constitution were abolished, it would clear the way for greater regulation of campaign spending and contributions.

Opponents, such as Dean Russell in The TVA Idea, in addition to condemning the project as being socialist, argued that TVA created a " hidden loss " by preventing the creation of " factories and jobs that would have come into existence if the government had allowed the taxpayers to spend their money as they wished.

Opponents pointed out that leading pro-treaty politicians had admitted if referendums had been held in countries other than Ireland, it would probably have been defeated there as well.

* Opponents of digital rights management argue that it creates perverse incentives for users to use pirated software when they are unable to access games they have legally purchased.

Opponents also note its small size, serving approximately 900 homes in relation to the surrounding districts that serve between 4, 400 to 8, 700 households and have a lesser tax burden.

Opponents of the clean indoor air ordinance, funded in part by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, immediately petitioned to have the ordinance repealed.

Opponents of biblical fundamentalism have criticized the Scofield Bible for its air of total authority in biblical interpretation, for what they consider its glossing over of biblical contradictions, and for its focus on eschatology.

Opponents of the invasion strategy point to a lack of examples in which occupying or peacekeeping forces have met with conclusive success.

Opponents argue that because both goals do not have time limits, there is no reason to implement Article 23 legislation before universal suffrage.

Opponents of same-sex marriage have worked to prevent individual states from recognizing same-sex unions by attempting to amend the United States Constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Opponents of solitary confinement hold that it is a form of cruel and unusual punishment and torture because the lack of human contact, and the sensory deprivation that often go with solitary confinement, can have a severe negative impact on a prisoner's mental state that may lead to certain mental illnesses such as depression, permanent or semi-permanent changes to brain physiology, an existential crisis, and death.

Opponents to the consolidation measure asserted that cost savings alleged by a widely circulated report were incorrect and / or unsubstantiated and that individual voter representation would be diluted by the merged municipal structure.

Opponents alleged that the Town government was excessively partial to Airtricity and the participating landowners, that it failed to take into consideration any of the possible negative impacts of turbine development, and did not make enough effort to negotiate a favourable deal with Airtricity on its own part ( towns can require various things of a wind developer, specifically among them a Payment in Lieu of Taxes, or PILOT ).

Opponents of MARTA are critical of MARTA's perceived inefficiency and alleged wasteful spending.

Opponents, on the other hand, suggest that the alleged greater prevalence of depression, drug use, promiscuity and suicide among homosexuals ( and alleged greater prevalence of domestic violence ) might affect children or that the absence of male and female role models could cause maladjustment.

Opponents in The Baltimore Sun alleged that Byrd emphasized athletics over academics and belittled him as the only college football coach to rise to the position of university president.

Opponents of school vouchers say allowing families the option of both public and private schools undermines the public education system through threatening its funding and enrollment.

Opponents of Medicare often raise issues such as long wait times, a ' brain-drain ' drawing qualified professionals away from Canada to other jurisdictions where working in the health care field is more profitable, and impairment of the Canadian health care system due to budget cuts.

Opponents of clearfelling point out that the clearfell process was unavailable until the arrival of European settlers ( indigenous people practised a mosaic burn system that kept the forest open but didn't remove large amounts of timber ).

Opponents of the modern usage of these terms in reference to electoral politics include revolutionaries who oppose the existing system as a whole, as well as political moderates who advocate that third parties be given greater exposure in that system.

Opponents are dictated by a round-robin system.

Opponents of the " dominant party " system or theory argue that it views the meaning of democracy as given, and that it assumes that only a particular conception of representative democracy ( in which different parties alternate frequently in power ) is valid.

Opponents fear that authoritarian provincial governments could disempower or even dismantle the system of local democracies.

Opponents claimed the system would invite election fraud as well as the possibility of people pressuring each other in terms of how they vote.

Opponents also argue that Colorado's economic growth has largely been despite-not because of-this system, and is a result of changing societal desires for open spaces, outdoor sports opportunities, and other " quality of life " issues that are now imperiled by Colorado's inability to provide expanding governmental services.

Opponents claimed this was evidence of a real problem in the legislative system and it must be required that bills must be reviewed in their entirety before they are passed.

Opponents of this system point out that unlike the bicameral systems in the UK and Canada, the Bahraini system gives the unelected upper house equal or more legislative power than the elected lower house, allowing the King to control all legislation.

Opponents also point out that the current system was imposed unilaterally by the King, violating the 1973 Constitution and a 2001 signed agreement with the Bahraini opposition.

Opponents of involvement replied that Canada must have the courage to oppose the system on moral grounds, even if this decision proved to have negative consequences.

Opponents of law and order argue that a system of harsh criminal punishment is ultimately ineffective because it does not address underlying or systemic causes of crime.

Opponents say that frivolous parties make a mockery of an important public process, and undermine the prestige of the democratic system.

" Opponents voiced concerns about the program's links to the Scientology belief system, and said that promoting its use in schools would violate the principle of the separation of church and state.

Opponents of such logic argue that political interests as already addressed by the political system may play a larger role.

Opponents of the light rail line noted that it would be yet another form of rail transport among the already diversely composed rail transport network in the capital area ( trams, railway, metro ); and that passengers could travel on the same system between all stations in Espoo and all stations in Helsinki, while constructing a light rail line would lead to all passengers travelling between east Helsinki and Espoo having to switch train systems.

Opponents to the project include concerned citizens and business owners who consider that the bus system is too expensive, is not needed, and will cause many businesses to lose business or have to close because of the construction.