The bishops resolved that the new proposals must be simple, must treat dissenters with respect, must have a reasonable prospect of gaining assent and must "enable the Church of England to resolve this unfinished business through its own processes as a matter of great urgency".
Achieving adulthood, for humans, involves gaining assent and reason.
That might explain why so many advocates of design arguments both historical and current seem to believe that they must only display a few cases and raise their eyebrows to gain assent to design.
Price tells us that a self-evident proposition is immediate, and needs no further proof, and goes on to say that self-evident propositions need only be understood to gain assent 1758/1969, 187).
Hughes countered that he did not believe the wording of the 1957 document gave Rhodesia the right to devise its own representation overseas without first gaining assent from Britain.
We shall gain assent from the next-of-kin, unpaid carer or close person to act as a 'personal consultee' according to the Mental Capacity Act (UK) 2005.
As people with advanced dementia will be unable to give informed consent; we will gain assent from a carer ('personal consultee') or professional consultee who is able to give assent.
Since the local legislation did not foresee the need to gain assent, and international guidelines in this respect remain vague, this genetic research also did not contain such a procedure.
We used an ethics committee "flagged" to deal with research on subjects who lack the capacity to consent (under the terms of the recently enacted Mental Capacity Act) and will gain assent from their carers.
Several solutions to the trade in illicit antiquities have been suggested, but none have gained the assent or even the acquiescence of all interested parties.
