Sentence examples for command assent from inspiring English sources

Not their falsity but their inability to command assent rendered them 'inoperative.' The question of whether they were true or not was beside the point".

And those who follow, let alone partake in, these negotiations, endlessly locked in an attempt to produce climate agreements which command assent, or at least acquiescence, from every single country here, are used to dealing with absurdities which follow more or less logically.

He seems to be saying that the very fact that it clashes with common sense represents a methodological handicap for his brand of moral skepticism, and thus that the arguments in its favor need to be even more convincing than do those of the opponent if they are to command assent.

Thus instead of automatically commanding assent, the cognitive impression (according to later Stoics) commands assent "if there is no impediment" (Sextus Empiricus, 40K), and if it has been successfully "tested" and is "irreversible" (cf. Sextus Empiricus, 69E).

A third category of ideas commands assent, but no action.

And to the extent that it has a central premise, the premise is not one that commands assent.

We as a nation have turned to the federal government for help precisely because the federal government failed at the one task so basic that it commands assent even from libertarians: defending the physical security of the country from foreign attack.

But Afghanistan cannot go for long without politicians who command wide assent.

The United Nations Development Programme is looking for ways to expand projects that are not linked to political decisions, says Knut Ostby, the UNDP's deputy representative.But Afghanistan cannot continue for long without politicians who command wide assent.

On Wednesday Brandis said he and Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion had worked closely with the opposition and Recognition Council "to ensure we develop a proposal that is sufficiently meaningful, while at the same time sufficiently modest that it will command broad assent from the Australian people", of both conservative and progressive disposition.

He himself has written that, "because I insist that what scientists share is not sufficient to command uniform assent about such matters as the choice between competing theories or the distinction between an ordinary anomaly and a crisis-provoking one, I am occasionally accused of glorifying subjectivity and even irrationality".