objectors

critics

Those who evaluate work

• opponentsThose who compete against
• detractorsPeople who criticize
• naysayersThose who dismiss ideas

skeptics · contrarians · doubters · questioners · disputants · nonconformists · dissidents · protesters · challengers · refuseniks

demonstrators

Public protest participants

• activistsPeople working for causes
• picketersPeople protesting with signs
• marchersThose who walk together

rally · civil disobedience · boycott · sit-in · vigil · placards · petition · resistance · solidarity · movement

pacifist

Anti-violence believer

• draft dodgerOne who avoids compulsory enlistment
• alternative serviceCivilian work replacing conscription
• noncombatantPerson not engaged in warfare

antimilitarist · peace activist · Quaker · Mennonite · religious exemption · ethical stance · tribunal · deferment · civilian service

plaintiff

Civil case initiator

• defendantParty facing charges
• lawsuitCivil court proceeding
• litigationLegal dispute process

complainant · appellant · petitioner · claimant · intervenor · respondent · challenge · filing · hearing · standing

point of order

Formal rules inquiry

• sustainedKept up continuously
• overruledRejected by higher authority
• motionChange in position

parliamentary · meeting · minutes · agenda · ruling · chairperson · vote · quorum

• class actionsclass action, class member, class members, class period, class representative
• criticscritic, critics, criticizer, criticizers, faultfinder
• noisemakersnoisemaker, air horn, bell, buzzer, kazoo
• obstaclesbarriers, block, obstacles, barrier, blockers
• Political Groupsfaction, Republican Party, caucus, Democratic Party, wing
• negativistspessimists, defeatists, doomers, doomsayers, negative Nellies