Word: assenting
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...been lost. It will not be easy, if only for the reason that the very success of American society so far is producing an ever larger proportion of persons who are trained to be skeptical, enquiring, and demanding of a great deal of information before they give their assent to any individual or policy. It is because we have always had such persons in sufficient numbers that we have governed ourselves successfully in the past, and they are not the less the occasion for confidence on that score in the future. Our students today are not raising hell because they...
...nodded her assent. Lother was a tall fat man with a misshapen nose. He had the look of a man who once might have wielded authority in his native land...
...recognized as belonging to the very latest strata in them.) (3) As to the area of agreement of the panel of theologians with the lawyer-lecture's view of the "authenticity of Christ's resurrection": the distinction here between the Resurrection as historical fact and theological affirmation is confused. Assent to the Resurrection in the latter sense should not be taken to mean acceptance of the historicity of the Gospel accounts. In any case assessment of these accounts as of all such ancient texts is first of all a question of the most sophisticated kind of expert study...
...congress of Italian gynecolo gists and obstetricians, the Pope said that he needed more time to study the issue and that until he makes a decision, the present ban remains in force. The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Ro mano then reinforced the point in a front-page editorial: "Assent to the un natural regulation of births would be assent to moral irresponsibility...
...lead. Because he has signally failed to do this despite his landslide victory in 1964, Johnson's Great Society so far looks better in the record books than in the nation's neighborhoods and schoolrooms. Far from giving him the ultimate power that goes with their assent, most Americans have withheld it be cause they vaguely fear that he already has too much power...