Only two-and-a-half years ago, the US and Nato felt free to double-cross Moscow by using its naive assent to Western military intervention for limited humanitarian ends in Libya as if it was permission to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
To assess the conduct of consent processes, two researchers independently scored the quality of the capacity assessment, use of proxies and processes for obtaining assent using the criteria shown in table 1, resolving discrepancies by discussion.
On the other hand, deceivers attempt to suppress verbal responses by using more negation and assent words.
And at the urging of his mother and his wife, Joshua assented to using a machine that enabled him to communicate with a speech synthesizer.
It tries to close the disconnect between the many local union chapters that have already assented to using student test scores in teacher evaluations, and the union's national policy that explicitly opposed their use.
Seals were also used to affirm assent; for example, by a jury.
Couldn't he wait until he got the President's body out of there and back to Washington?' " Johnson, in this account, took — or used — silence as assent.
Not just because of their ferocity and persistence, but because they signal the failure of decades of efforts to win the assent of Kashmiris using just about any tool available: money, elections and overwhelming force.
Though Clitomachus rejected assent, he accepted Carneades' proposal that we could follow or use impressions without assenting to them and adopted this attitude toward, among other impressions, the skeptical doctrines that nothing can be known and that one ought therefore suspend judgment (Acad. 2.109 10).
Arguments for the use of assent in the recruitment into research of children who do not have the capacity to consent tend to call upon two distinct and important reasons – instrumental and moral.
