Word: assents
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...combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to [the following] acts: . . . quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; . . . protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants . . .; cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; . . . transporting us . . . to be tried for pretended offenses; . . . abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of . . . governments...
...Puritan ties grew weaker and weaker, Unitarianism appeared on the New England landscape, and the Divinity School was organized in 1816. Its constitution prescribes that "every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial, and unbiased investigation of Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians be required either of the Students or Professors or Instructors...
...galleries, tonsured and feathered heads nodded assent or shook in disapproval. Then came something that set all heads spinning...
...your highest office, even though most of you want him there, because he has served long enough now." This restriction placed on the electorate in periods of crisis, when certain experienced leadership is required, should make the lawmakers think twice before nodding their collective heads in obedient assent...
...most voters was no oddity in long-suffering Chicago. Republican mayoral Candidate Russell William Root had been hand-picked by Governor Dwight Green, who sent him over to the Tribune Tower for approval. Colonel Bertie McCormick, who had long maintained a cynical truce with local Democrats, rumbled his assent. After what had happened to the Democrats in November, he was sure the G.O.P. could now take the mayoralty-with anybody...