Rand rejects both dogmatism (asserting knowledge or demanding assent in the absence of contextually sufficient evidence) and skepticism (denying knowledge, or demanding the withholding of assent, in the presence of contextually sufficient evidence).
The committee demands assent for the suspension of cooperation under Lomé, alongside that for its initiation.
It is prerequisite that the pope intend to demand irrevocable assent from the entire church in some aspect of faith or morals.
In a democratic society, a legitimate monarchy needs to demonstrate consent but should realise that it does not need to demand universal assent.
However, the demand for assent may cause problems.
Each of the poem's 26 couplets is self-contained and set alongside its companions without any syntactical connective tissue, so it's impossible to read the work as a rhetorical argument demanding either assent or dissent.
In his most elevated rhetorical passages, especially in "The Prelude," he often writes as though setting forth a metaphysical proposition that demands intellectual assent: "Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows / Like harmony in music; there is a dark / Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles / Discordant elements".
Propositions to be used as premises for demonstration make the most irresistible demands for our assent; premises for lower kinds of discourse make weaker demands.
The issue was joined in a council at Westminster (October 1163), but the crisis came at Clarendon (Wiltshire, January 1164), when the king demanded a global assent to all traditional royal rights, reduced to writing under 16 heads and known as the Constitutions of Clarendon.
Mr. West also shouts out a slew of rappers from the city in what feels like the rare example of his trying to glom onto someone else's credibility instead of standing on his own two feet and demanding that people assent to his terms.
During this same period, International also acceded to the Securities and Exchange Commission's demand that the company assent to the entry of a "federal Consent Order" in federal district court in Illinois or face suit by it.
