Most of us unquestioningly assent to the first principle.
If the legislation is approved it will go to parliament before receiving royal assent, meaning the first female bishops could be ordained in 2014.
The lying-in-state could have moved from Savile Row to Westminster Hall and the military and the monarchy might have played a greater part, but we know these things can also be achieved without parliament's assent (for the Queen Mother in the first case and Thatcher in the second).
Following the city's assent, the first Mass at the site in 60 years was celebrated on the church stairs during the feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December 1990.
Sextus clearly intends this to be so: in the first sense of dogma, a dogma is assent to anything, and in the second sense it is assent to a certain subclass of things ('some unclear object of investigation in the sciences').
Having assented in the Ellis Case to the first proposition, I cannot give my assent to the suggestion that the second proposition is consistent with the principles there laid down.
His two-faculty theory of judgment requires an interaction between the perceptions of the intellect and the will's assent (a theory elaborated in the Fourth Meditation).
Less than one-third of eligible voters are reckoned to have turned out in the first round of the referendum, and the margin of assent has been slim.
In arguing that the Skeptic has dogmata in the first sense, Sextus simply needs to show that the Skeptic does assent to something.
In the first phase of the study, we obtained written informed consent from parents and assent from children.
In his influential first book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961; rev. ed., 1983), Booth presented a detailed examination of narrative technique and introduced such terms as "implied author" and "reliable narrator". In 1974 he produced Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent, a plea for reasoned assent in the educational community that was prompted by events on the Chicago campus.
