It begins with a discussion between Socrates and the elderly, decent-seeming businessman Cephalus, who offers (or at any rate assents to Socrates' suggestion of) a markedly 'Hesiodic' account of justice as telling the truth and returning what one owes (331c).
If this is indeed the UUP-DUP strategy, and if the Tories are in any way giving assent or even turning a blind eye to this chicanery, it will only increase fears among all nationalists that once again the "orange card", played since the days of Bonar Law and Edward Carson, has come into play once more.
Church held that one who believes that lawyers are lawyers, must indeed believe that lawyers are attorneys, despite any refusal to assent to (or desire to dissent from) 'Lawyers are attorneys' (Church 1954).
Assent is regulated by our awareness of logical consistency or contradiction between the proposition under consideration and beliefs that one already holds: when we are not aware of any consideration, we assent readily, but when we perceive a conflict we are strongly constrained to reject one or the other of the conflicting views (2.26.3).
The Tribunal concluded that the President had no power under Article 22H(1) to withhold his assent to any bill seeking to amend any of the provisions referred to in Article 5 2A).
Because Article 5 2A) was not in force, a question arose as to whether the President had the power under Article 22H(1) to withhold his assent to any bill seeking to amend any of the provisions referred to in Article 5 2A), and specifically to any bill seeking to amend Article 22H.
Secured creditors must specifically and individually assent to any modification of their rights.
The international norm of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), which demands that communities give their assent to any proposed exploration, is honoured only in its flagrant abuse.
Nevertheless, the mayor said earlier this week that he would not assent to any security demands that would "tie the hands of the city".
Because no reliable criterion of truth exists, Carneades argued, Arcesilaus was right to urge the withholding of assent from any experience that claimed to be knowledge.
