Word: assents
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...usual Royal Assent to the Money Bills passed by Parliament was intoned in archaic Norman French: "Le roi remerci ses bons sujets, accepte leur bénévolence et ainsi le veult!" ["The King thanks his good subjects, accepts their benevolence (grants of money), and so wills...
...Northwestern University, made out a questionnaire and sent it to 500 ministers in or near Chicago. Four hundred thirty six ministers answered his inquiries. All wrote "Yes" when they answered the question: "Do you believe God exists?" Their other replies were varied. Questions and answers in the order of assent (figures in percentages...
...most strong exidence in its favor. Perhaps the most definite mark of its firm establishment is present in the least definite phenomenon at Harvard--student opinion. Perhaps it was in Cambridge first, as now, that silence in matters of great moment became known as token of assent...
...student, apparently hastening to assent to what seemed to be an implied order, unhooked his control stick, hurled it over, and grinned back...
...Opera Company. In the opening scene, for instance. Faust is discovered in his study, a scholar of middle age, a victim of nostalgia, despairing over the futility of the search after knowledge by forfeiting all life's diversions, speculating on whether after all it may not be better to assent to the aphorism, "evil, be though my good...