Word: assents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week these commissions published, from Boston, their joint recommendations: "We believe the basis of vital Christian unity is a common acceptance of Christianity as primarily a way of life [i. e., a moral code]. Assent to an official creed is not essential. Within the circle of fellowship created by loyalty to the common Master there may exist differences of theological opinion. With that primary loyalty affirmed, such differences need not separate; rather, indeed, if the mind of the Master controls, they may enrich the content of faith and experience...
Peace Hopes, 1914. "I could not forget that half the world was afire, and I could not assent to the President's view that the War was one 'whose causes cannot touch...
...suave oval-faced Italian with a scrubby Vandyke beard, added half a cent last week to the value of the lira.* No prestidigitator, Finance Minister Count Volpi performed this modern alchemy by obtaining Premier Mussolini's assent to a hard-headed Cabinet decree enforcing deflation of the lira. So drastic is this reform that Signor Grandi, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, commented...
...Lifted disdainful eyebrows as the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod shepherded before the bar of the Lords many an M. P. - several grumbling audibly at their obligation to hear read His Majesty's assent to the bill...
...difficulty in the way of securing the assent of each signatory by direct exchange of notes, as provided for by the Senate. It would seem to me to be a matter of regret if the council of the' League should do anything to create the impression that there are substantial difficulties...