Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having allowed the Zinoviev letter to be published without reference to Moscow. The note said there is "no intention of departing from the decision communicated to you by Mr. MacDonald and recorded in this office, that the note in question was one which his Majesty's Government cannot consent to receive...
...Establishing a republic and changing the constitution without the consent of the people...
...Chicago city council wants the Army-Navy football game next year to be played in its new municipal stadium. Secretaries Wilbur and Weeks are being solicited to obtain the necessary governmental consent. If Chicago gets its wish, another tradition will have bitten the dust, and a new precedent will be established whose end none can foresee...
...refusal of the King, for example, to accept the resignation of a Ministry defeated in Parliament would have serious effect, but Parliament could not legally force the Cabinet to retire. It would be powerless to legislate, for the King's consent is necessary to each Parliamentary bill before it can become law. All it could do, short of causing a revolution, would be to refuse to vote supplies, thereby depriving the Government of money with which to conduct its business; or to decline to pass any measures framed by the Government, thereby deadlocking the legislature...
...reason for this was an ultimatum from the People's Party -a member of the present Government coalition most friendly to the Nationalists [Monarchists]-threatening to 'reserve its liberty of action' unless other parties forming the coalition consent to the admission of Nationalists into the Government...