Word: assenting
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...unjust imprisonment was only beginning to emerge) and that great milestone of liberty, the Petition of Right, which set out at length what Coke put bluntly in brief: "Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." When Charles, cornered by lack of money, gave sour assent to the petition, there "broke out ringing of bells and bonfires" such as London had not seen for years. But the petition was Coke's last great achievement. When Parliament rose, he retired into the country. He could not know that a century and a half later the patriots...
...Registrar, however, were empowered to arrange lecture hours, with the assent of the various departments, there would be fewer mixups of this sort. This system would demand qualitative judgments which would not always be easy; an IBM machine cannot distinguish between Comp Lit 166 and English 10, but a perceptive administrator can. There is no reason why courses cannot be scheduled according to the needs of both instructors and students, instead of the whims of the autonomous departments...
...Israel), he told the court: "I know those cows as I know my children." Could he describe them, asked the court? Yes, said Mustafa, one had a very large udder, the other a twisted horn. The prosecutor and the judge looked at each other with a nod of assent. The truck in which the cows lowed sorrowfully was opened and the beasts clomped out-one with an extra-large udder, the other with a twisted horn...
...problem of segregated schools, as those states not yet abiding by the Supreme Court decision are in the greatest need of educational improvement. The Powell amendment is an unnecessarily antagonistic approach. It should arouse the same southern opposition which killed the bill's predecessor. While Congress cannot afford to assent tacitly to continued segregation, it should not attempt to duplicate the role of the Justice Department in bringing about integration...
...there cannot be which public approbation has not made so." Firm adherence to this principle must be reiterated occasionally. Mr. Lodge, from a large pulpit, has underscored the dogma in unequivocal terms. Such explicit assertion is essential, for illegality thrives upon that silence which is often interpreted as tacit assent...