Word: consent
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...state of suspended political animation, letting a surrounded Parliament continue to meet, permitting "detained" leaders to go on bargaining. Having gone all the way militarily, the Russians then hesitated politically. Having forcibly grasped their victim, the Russians seemed to be trying to bring off a rape with consent...
only by force of arms and not by common consent...
...routine." By 1914, however, the spotlight had shifted from post-impressionism to the angry, angular new vision of fauves and cubists. Vuillard stopped exhibiting and retreated into nearly three decades of private work. Only in 1938, two years before his death, did he break his self-imposed withdrawal and consent to a large Paris exhibition...
...more than all that, a President has to establish moral authority based on public trust. Indeed, the whole art of governing a democracy lies in mustering popular consent on a vast scale. A President must have convictions, a vision of where the nation should travel; he must summon the national mood and push it in the right direction. If he fails to give his people a sense of participation in crucial decisions, his politics may be doomed from the start. "A President," says Political Scientist lames MacGregor Burns, "must be both preacher and politician...
...role was more problematic: "Should I consult my superiors? I asked and obtained their consent." That still was not enough. In accepting artificial prolongation of his life, was he denying the will of God? "That question lies between one's conscience and God. Here the conscience, in confrontation with the love of God, takes its risks. In solitude...