Word: assenting
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Upon the success of the coup, Mirza appointed General Ayub Martial Law Administrator. After three weeks, however, the latter sent three generals to visit Mirza. They received Mirza's "gracious assent" to their proposal that he leave the country...
...hasn't arrived"). Oddly, Theologian McCord also includes Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. If anyone criticizes such literary judgments, McCord has an answer: "I think the first thing the Lord requires of us is honesty. He requires you to be honest before he requires you to assent to something...
...gave soft-voiced assent, and clods of dirt rained on him as the hopeful youngsters kicked. Suddenly he snapped to attention, barked at No. 84: "Head down, boy, eyes up!" Turning sideways he demonstrated the posture with fluent grace. "Relax, boys," he said easily; "don't be awkward...
...Charles V, and Napoleon." Such men as Franco, concluded the Catholic Ya, "are the instruments of the highest designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy Marshal Petain's remark that Generalissimo Franco's "is the cleanest sword in Europe." Only the Syndicalist paper Pueblo avoided sycophantic assent. Wrote Pueblo sharply: "We believe that rhetoric is indissolubly united to the decadence of Spain over the past centuries...
...only all embracing tradition to which every member of the University community need assent is the tradition of scholarship. For President Pusey, as for many others, it might seem absurd for a man to be "ultimately concerned" merely with scholarship. But Harvard is not an individual. It is a corporate entity deriving its strength from the fact that its members agree upon a common purpose--the pursuit of their individual visions of truth wherever these may lead. For many, perhaps for most, the search leads to the Christian Revelation of God. But that is the concern not of the University...