Word: consents
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...Curtis Bok said long ago, "In the whole history of law and order, the longest step forward was taken by primitive men when, as if by common consent, the tribe sat down in a circle and allowed one man to speak at a time." The current insane abandonment of plain good manners calls for the tribe to make firm and quiet ejection of our disrupters...
...struggle that will move and mobilize the Greek people if its unfettered sovereignty will not be secured in the hour of victory," he continued. "And certainly the return of Constantine-the par excellence guardian of the American Pentagon and of the powers of occupation of our country-without the consent of the Greek people, is in compatible with the liberation struggle...
Back in November 1969, President Nixon and Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato agreed to move toward an agreement that would let Okinawa-occupied by the U.S. since 1945-revert to Japan in 1972. Nixon understood from Sato that in return the Japanese would formally consent to a limitation on the flow of synthetic textiles into the U.S. Nixon had promised in his presidential campaign to limit textile imports from Japan, so it seemed a good deal for the U.S. Moreover, Sato needed Okinawa to placate his anti-American opponents in the Diet, and the U.S. needed Sato...
...says the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 83, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. In a new book, Touching on Christian Truth, Dr. Fisher proposes to help the young avoid the sin of fornication by reviving the ancient rite of betrothal. "It would have to take place with the full consent of the two families," he wrote. "It would, in fact, be a sacramental act, made, as indeed marriage itself is, essentially by the two persons themselves. After that, sexual intercourse between them would not be regarded as, in the moral sense, fornication." Marriage and children would follow when...
...phrase "approval of his province" means that bishops should have the consent of the national church. In the case of England, the historic seat of Anglicanism, the approval would have to come not only from the General Synod of the Church of England but also from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. And Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury voted against the resolution in Nairobi. "I have no everlasting objection to the ordination of women," said Ramsey last week in London. He believes "it will come," but he adds that "we must not move too rapidly." Like many other Anglican churchmen...