Sentence examples for not assent from inspiring English sources

The pigeons were being given away because the Murphys were moving, and the pigeons would not assent to the move.

"Our myths are ignorance, theirs are literature" is the conclusion of "White Magic", but this line is accusation, not assent.

But an angry (and veto-wielding) Russia insists it will not assent to the Ahtisaari plan if Belgrade does not.

Nevertheless, the mayor said earlier this week that he would not assent to any security demands that would "tie the hands of the city".

If at the conclusion of the negotiating period the Letterman side submitted its last and best proposal to CBS and the network did not assent, the show would be free to solicit offers elsewhere.

The Pyrrhonians would not assent to non-evident propositions.

By not assenting to the perception, thus adding belief ("here is the door"), the skeptic guards against the source of falsehood, namely belief.

"Him not assenting to the bill makes us happy but him calling us 'abnormal'nothing-doers'rs'sexuallylly starved', that is so derogatory," he said.

The Stoics aim to avoid the kind of determinism according to which actions are not 'up to' the agent (Bobzien 1998); for them, impressions, but not assents, are caused by external things.

The third category of reasons for not assenting were the study examinations, especially invasive medical procedures such as blood drawing which can be expected to scare children.

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.