In May 1916, midway through World War I, French and British diplomats, with the assent of czarist Russia, struck a secret deal — known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement after the officials who negotiated it — establishing spheres of influence that became the framework of much of the region's 20th-century history.
As parliament has enacted the scheme of devolution in Wales, it should be for parliament and not the executive to oversee any changes and to do so with the assent of the democratically elected National Assembly for Wales.
It is accepted constitutional theory that Parliament (the House of Commons and the House of Lords acting with the assent of the monarch) can do anything it wants to, including abolish itself.
Although Mauritania's commitment to combating terrorism has brought relief to many of its people, for others it has become an excuse for the continued use of torture and other brutal forms of intimidation — all with the assent of the very foreign governments that claim to decry such methods.
It was a period when people were routinely denounced and punished (and sometimes killed) for the crime of being an intellectual or teacher; when millions were sent to the countryside for "re-education"; and when teenagers ran rampant as "Red Guards" — all with the assent of Chairman Mao.
The broader consensus of the Japanese people, along with the assent of the courts and bureaucracy, is required.
Bishop Walter, therefore, with the assent of the patrons and King David, reduced the canons to five.
But she also adopted a more emollient tone, saying that a Greek departure from the euro would have been undertaken only with the assent of other Eurozone partners and of Greece itself, in order to manage the process as smoothly as possible.
The research protocol, including a privacy policy, was approved by the institutional review board of Osaka University, the organizer of this project, with the assent of the EMS authorities and local governments in the prefecture.
He proposed a board like the one he had established for the Times of London and the Sunday Times, where of the fifteen members only seven have no ties to News Corp., and where he can theoretically hire or fire the editor only with the assent of the board.
