Word: assenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...continued blithely on a collision course: butting stubbornly against faculty and student opposition. Harvard is an oligarchy in theory, ruled by a self-perpetuating group of seven men, but in practice it can only function as a peculiar sort of democracy, in which the President acts either with the assent of those concerned, or with the carefully considered and deeply held belief that he is moving with the wave of the future. In 1958, Mr. Pusey, so deeply rooted in the past that he found it difficult to move even into the present, was so far from acting with...
...died in the past three years, and after praising the courage of churchmen behind the Iron Curtain, the Pope read off the names of his choices. At the end he asked, in the time-honored ritual phrase, "Quid vobis videtur? [What do you think?]" In the sign of an assent that is now automatic, the cardinals doffed their scarlet zucchetta (skullcaps). The Pope pronounced the words of appointment: "By the authority of Almighty God, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of ourself, we appoint"-and here, one by one, the Pope named the men-"to be cardinals...
...cigar-a complex blend of irony and passion. Brecht aimed his irony at the rich, the powerful, the complacent-and himself. He spent his passion on human suffering. Though he ended his days as an East German showpiece, Brecht's economic philosophy was little more than an emotional assent to Proudhon's "Property is theft...
...Committee also granted formal assent to the Lowell House Opera Society's rendition of Gay's Beggar's Opera, with David Cole '63 directing...
...Presiding Bishop Lichtenberger interrupted the proceedings to give the regular noonday prayer: Look mercifully, 0 Lord, on the broken body of thy church. And suddenly, within about 30 seconds and without a single dissenting voice, the motion was unanimously passed. Three days later, the House of Deputies added its assent by a vote...