Word: assents
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...passionate appeal, a call for jihad against a cruel government that, he says, is oppressing the faithful. "Will you join hands with me to fight? Fight the army that tortures and kills our people? The army that has caused the disappearance of many Muslims?" The crowd cries out in assent, the younger men standing together, holding hands and shouting "Allahuakbar!" (God is great!) again and again...
...Professor of Independent Studies, “this music is more than just music. It cuts to your soul, man. It’s like...flowers in the dirt of life. And the flowers play instruments.” Michael’s friends murmured stoned assent...
...Business Roundtable, the Washington Consensus remains inviolate. When it comes to Consensus, though, General George S. Patton may have been on to something as he paused to remark: “When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.” In Miami, the FTAA failed to achieve the assent of many Latin American governments and, much to the chagrin of Friedman and Conrad Black, may have to undergo serious re-thinking...
When Franklin visited Versailles to receive the King's formal assent to the treaties, he declined to wear the ceremonial sword and regalia that were considered de rigueur at court. Seeing no reason to abandon the simple style that had served him well, he dressed in a plain brown suit with his famous spectacles as his only adornment. His one fashion concession was that he did not wear his fur cap and instead carried a hat of pure white under his arm. "Is that white hat a symbol of liberty?" asked an aristocratic woman at whose salon Franklin had worn...
...Cyprus problem: "I did not fight with a gun," he says. "I did not watch friends die beside me. My father is from that generation. I am not." Which is one reason why he, not Rauf, championed opening the green line. To push through his plan, Serdar needed the assent not just of his father, whose personal prestige and contacts in Ankara make him a dominant voice, but the Turkish government itself and the Turkish military, which keeps more than 40,000 troops on the island. Serdar says he brought up the idea of "opening the gates" four years...