Sentence examples for rather than assent from inspiring English sources

Baudouin was criticized, however, for his 1990 decision to step down for one day rather than assent to a government bill legalizing abortion; he was reinstated by parliament after its passage.

That is, the Act requires persons who are legal minors to consent rather than assent if they have sufficient comprehension.

Conversational intentionality requires leaders to convey strategic principles not just by asserting them but by explaining them by generating consent rather than commanding assent.

Ménégoz and Sabatier both sought to distinguish faith understood in terms of something akin to Schleiermacher's feeling of absolute dependence from propositional belief, arguing that salvation depends on the former, rather than on assent to any particular doctrine.

After serving as first chancellor (February June 1919) of the Weimar Republic, he resigned rather than give his assent to the Versailles Treaty.

This dilemma caused an increasing number of Catholic theologians to move closer to a view that emphasizes faith as a personal commitment to God rather than as an assent to revealed truth.

The revamped Council will take decisions with a simple majority of its members, rather than requiring the assent of two-thirds as before.Another proposed bill would restrict the use of injunctions, which Ms Fernández's enemies have used to frustrate her.

Rather than asking their assent as children with an associated parental permission, parenting adolescents between the ages of 15 17 years were considered 'emancipated minors' due to their pregnancy status.

The party of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi gave oral assent rather than a signature to the document.

Children 7 to 14 can be asked for their "assent," rather than informed consent, along with their parents, while teenagers 14 and older can weigh the possible risks and benefits and make up their own minds nearly as well as any adult, Dr. Wendler said.

As noted above, it is a "free assent," rather than a movement of the intellect, as knowledge is often portrayed.