Sentence examples for could assent from inspiring English sources

They therefore had to face a problem: Could assent to an authoritative revelation be justified before the bar of reason?

But no one who wishes in any way to stand within historic Christianity could possibly assent to that reductionist assertion.

I used to make a sort of game of seeing which bits seemed decent and moral to say, and which bits I couldn't assent to and would leave out.

Elsewhere he argues that human freedom requires a self-determining will that could freely assent or refrain from assenting to the mind's judgments; this is a freedom of choosing and not a freedom of acting, such that a prisoner in chains "who chooses or endeavors to move out of his place is therein as much a free agent as he that actually moves out of his place" (D 75, W 2.566).

Unfortunately, facts are what emerge from argument; they do not precede it, and so there is no set of argument-independent facts that could compel assent from everyone and end the debate once and for all.

A remark in Philoponus' edition of Ammonius' lectures on De Anima (104,21 23) to the effect that the soul could be forced to profess tyrants' impious dogma, but could not be forced to assent to it and believe it, might perhaps go back to Ammonius and has been taken as possible evidence that he was coerced to pay lip service to Christianity (Westerink 1962, XI XII and Cameron 1969,14 15).

Parents could also be asked whether the child is old and competent enough to assent [ 10, 11, 23].

Procedures for deferred assent from children were reported in two emergency care trials (CATCH and TOBY), whereby assent could be sought when a child's condition had been stabilized and capacity to assent had returned.

It could sound as if Sextus means to differentiate between the type of thing that the Skeptic assents to (appearances) and the type of thing he doesn't assent to (objects of investigation, i.e., propositions).

Parliament's assent could be sought by means of legislation or through resolutions tabled in both Houses of Parliament.

The new legislation, which could receive royal assent as early as Friday, will ensure immediate access to legal representation.