"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.
The term wapentake is of Scandinavian origin and meant the taking of weapons; it later signified the clash of arms by which the people assembled in a local court expressed assent.
If we accept that children's enthusiasm for research runs the gamut from expressed assent, through silent assent, through indifference and then from passive dissent to active dissent, there are clear differences in the guidelines.
In a few cases of cognitive impairment, family members were enrolled via proxy consent, provided that the participant was able to express assent at the time of the examination.
When I asked other British archeologists about this theory, some expressed enthusiastic assent, but many were more guarded.
Sometime soon, before the countdown begins, Mr. Bush must provide his Cabinet with a clear statement of his intentions and invite them to express their assent, recording it as a formal, ultimately unanimous, vote.
Yet if they are competent, they should be able to express not assent, but consent [ 13].
Our results show that there is a considerable variability in the implementation of children's rights as perceived by nurses: while some rights seem widely respected (right to have a parent with them, right to play and to have toys), others have much lower levels of implementation (right to express informed assent or dissent, right to continue school).
All the children's rights are reportedly more frequently implemented in northern and central Italy than in southern regions, with the exception of the right to play and have their toys, the right to express their assent or dissent and the right to be taken care of with children of the same developmental age.
Some emphasise expressed (or positive) assent, for example, "affirmative agreement", 4 while some indicate a lack of dissent, for example "acquiescence".
Dummett observes, "We have no negation of the conditional of natural language, that is, no negation of its sense: we have only a form for expressing refusal to assent to its assertion".
