Sentence examples for without their assent from inspiring English sources

But European diplomats here say that certain permanent members represented in Lausanne, thought to include Russia and possibly China and France, jealously guard the privileges of membership and do not like the idea of automatic measures without their assent.

She justified her position by saying that Stasi records on several East German political figures, including the last prime minister of East Germany, Lothar de Maiziere, has been published without their assent, as well as documents on Stasi political targets in the west, including the late Bavarian state premier, Franz-Josef Strauss. Franz-Josef Strauss

But European diplomats here say that certain permanent members represented in Lausanne, thought to include Russia and possibly China and France, jealously guard the privileges of security council membership and do not like the idea of automatic measures without their assent.

In 1684 its citizens' refusal to pay taxes levied by Governor Edmund Andros "without their own assent in assembly" was a precursor to the American Revolutionary slogan: "No taxation without representation".

The elders nodded their assent.

Some murmur their assent, others nod eagerly.

Golding and Hall enthusiastically nod their assent.

The customary alliance between rank-and-file officers and their supervisors has given such associations considerable clout; little change can be effected in police forces without at least their partial assent.

To be sure, Arcesilaus and other Academics defended the possibility of a life without knowledge and without assent (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem 1122A F; cf. Long and Sedley [henceforward L&S] 69A).

If the Cynics eschewed the city altogether, and the Epicureans eschewed active political participation for the most part, the skeptics adhering to the radical Pyrrhonist position allowed their adherents to live in an ordinary way but without inner assent or conviction to any doctrine, similarly not a stance supportive of active political engagement.

It is a cornerstone of Stoic philosophy that there can be no action without assent, and so without the belief that the action done is to be done.