Sentence examples for by assent from inspiring English sources

Until the Court indicates with greater precision what it means by "assent," today's opinion will surely cause still greater confusion in this area of the law.

Among the Nambikwara Indians of the Mato Grosso he identified the basic political conditions idealised by Rousseau: equality, and leadership by assent.

Tavdy was a proprietary trader at Andover, a registered broker-dealer that was acquired by Assent in March 2003.

All study procedures were performed as part of standard clinical care and complied with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki regarding human research, and as all procedures performed were essential for standard clinical care of these patients, written consent was not required, but consent was obtained by assent.

Another way to understand what we mean by assent is to describe the limits of assent.

Because all the procedures performed were essential for standard clinical care of these patients, written consent was not required, but consent was obtained by assent.

By assenting to it, Democrats have agreed to sequestration for the foreseeable future.

You mean by assenting to imply that he who says something must say some one thing?

As a candidate for the Polish crown, he secured the support of the emperor Charles VI by assenting to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, designed to preserve the integrity of the Habsburg inheritance, and that of the Russian empress Anna by supporting Russia's claim to Courland.

By assenting to this principle, Mr Clinton has probably made it harder for himself or his successor to pull out of the treaty, as either side may legally do, with six months' notice.No less controversial, in terms of America's domestic security debate, will be the assertion that "offensive" strategic weapons and defensive ones cannot be treated in isolation from one another.

We acquire the views we hold by assenting to impressions; in every given case, we can assent to an impression, negate it, or withhold judgment.