Word: consents
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Capable of Honor is the third book in a tetralogy that Drury launched with his successful, widely read Advise and Consent. It lacks the spellbinding novelty of that first book. It is laden with passages that are even more clumsy and prolix than those in A Shade of Difference, the second in the series. But Drury succeeds again simply by cramming his book with intricately spun accounts of domestic skulduggery, international chicanery, congressional conniving, and White House squeeze plays-all of which spell bestsellerdom. What's more, old Senate Reporter Drury (who used to work for the New York...
...husband would never consent...
...Caesar. Churchman Krogager keeps God's business and Caesar's nicely separated. Technically, he is only a consultant to Tjaereborg, though he has the consent of his bishop and elders to consult as much as he wants. When other travel agencies complained about his growing activity, Denmark's Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs itself announced that there was no conflict between church work and tourism...
...stripped the nudist law from the books. Calling the wall "prohibitive" and the fee excessive, the court scoffed at the law's definition of a nudist as anyone found naked before "persons of the opposite sex, not his husband or wife, at their solicitation or with their consent, for religious or health purposes." Construed literally, ruled the court, the law would penalize even "a female patient who undergoes an examination by a male physician...
...himself imprisoned in the Tower and finally lays his head upon the executioner's block. The reasons are, of course, familiar--Henry VIII wished to marry Anne, the Pope would not agree with Henry that the royal marriage to Catherine was void; unable to put aside Catherine with the consent of the Pope, Henry put aside the Pope. More would not swear to the act of Succession, for it asserted the lawfulness of the King's acts--thus to the Tower. Falsely convicted of open denial of the King's supremacy over the Church, he loses his head. This much...