Sentence examples for assent rather than from inspiring English sources

The party of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi gave oral assent rather than a signature to the document.

Children 7 to 14 can be asked for their "assent," rather than informed consent, along with their parents, while teenagers 14 and older can weigh the possible risks and benefits and make up their own minds nearly as well as any adult, Dr. Wendler said.

As noted above, it is a "free assent," rather than a movement of the intellect, as knowledge is often portrayed.

"But through the lens of 'These are problems in our society, not unique to this movement.' " People expressed assent through head nods, rather than hand signals.

Baudouin was criticized, however, for his 1990 decision to step down for one day rather than assent to a government bill legalizing abortion; he was reinstated by parliament after its passage.

They are a little put out, however, that even as Obama offers these cuts to earned benefit programs, he doesn't seem to actually want it bad enough, in his heart of hearts: "Mr. Obama too often casts entitlement reform as a concession to extract Republican assent to higher taxes, rather than a worthy end in itself".

That is, the Act requires persons who are legal minors to consent rather than assent if they have sufficient comprehension.

Ménégoz and Sabatier both sought to distinguish faith understood in terms of something akin to Schleiermacher's feeling of absolute dependence from propositional belief, arguing that salvation depends on the former, rather than on assent to any particular doctrine.

There must be some warrant that permits our assent, though one that has its basis in the needs of practical reason, since the assent is a matter of faith rather than knowledge or opinion.

After serving as first chancellor (February June 1919) of the Weimar Republic, he resigned rather than give his assent to the Versailles Treaty.

This dilemma caused an increasing number of Catholic theologians to move closer to a view that emphasizes faith as a personal commitment to God rather than as an assent to revealed truth.