How To Use Assenting In A Sentence
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assenting to the Congressional determination
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S's believing or assenting to P is based on his justifying propositional reason Q.= df S's believing or assenting to P is causally sustained in a nondeviant manner by his believing or assenting to Q. and by his associating P and Q. Moser limits this account of the basing relation to instances of inferential knowledge, unlike the more general characterization of the basing relation given above.
The Epistemic Basing Relation
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His acceptance of them as hypotheses does not require assenting to them.
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-- While captiousness of manner, and the habit of disputing and contradicting every thing said, is chilling and repulsive, the opposite habit of assenting to, and sympathizing with, every statement made, or emotion expressed, is almost equally disagreeable.
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They declared themselves incapable of assenting to any changes touching the Church without the authorization of the Assembly of the Clergy.
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n. - removal, especially crime of removing property. assentaneous adj. - acquiescent. adj. willing to assent. assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving. assentatory, v. - to state positively, emphatically
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He hesitates a moment before, with a small bow, assenting.
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The constable and I could not avoid breaking into a kind of assenting laugh, and Rupert, who had family eloquence, was encouraged to go on with a reiterated gesture:
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n. - removal, especially crime of removing property. assentaneous adj. - acquiescent. adj. willing to assent. assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving. assentatory, v. - to state positively, emphatically
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Belief can be described as assenting to certain doctrines -- infallible scripture, resurrection, virgin birth etc.
Jason Derr: Can We Have Religion Without Religion and God Without God?
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Assenting Annie didn't throw any back, as Annie is merely as assenter, but neither of the honorable ladies who were coming to break my bread knew that Susie McDougal's ears were hearing ears.
Miss Gibbie Gault
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The young man, in other words, unconfusedly smiled -- though indeed as if assenting, from principle and habit, to more than he understood.
The Golden Bowl — Volume 1
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The saints used Amen at the end of prayer, or in assenting to the word of God; but none, save the Son of God, ever said, "Amen, I say unto you," for it is the language peculiar to God, who avers by
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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President Polk, in assenting to this arrangement in 1846, threw the responsibility upon the
The Relations Between the Governments of Great Britain and the United States, from the Treaty of Ghent until the Inauguration of President Lincoln
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It is certainly not a convincing retort to point out that: the argument is inconsistent with the existence of a Board having powers as specified under Section 11 of the Broadcasting Act. However, in assenting to the Act, Parliament either did not know what it was doing; or was making an idle gesture, not expecting the Board to promulgate any regulations respecting standards of programs, the character of advertising, the amount of time that may be devoted to advertising, and other matters specifically referred to, in the Act; or as I believe to be much more likely, Parliament consciously denied the argument that broadcasting can be left to the normal criteria and judgments of the market place.
A High Standard
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Then a pretty little girl, Tilly Turtelle, who seemed quite a premature flirt, proposed "doorkeeper" -- a suggestion accepted with great _eclat_ by all the children, several grown people assenting.
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
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an assenting nod
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Mr. Waldegrave I know that the hon. Gentleman agrees with me, because I can see him assenting.
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The formality of being made to click assent is significant, even if one is assenting to standard form contracts.
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Certainly he appears to be fulfilling all the legal functions of the role adequately, such as assenting to laws and setting session times for Parliament.
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The theological debates of the time come alive through his bourgeois, sporting, nonintellectual hero who nonetheless is dogged in trying to find out what precisely he would be assenting to in becoming an Anglican clergyman.
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His wife took no notice of his cries and groans, for it was quite as agreeable to her to be the only speaker, and have her moaning husband a kind of assenting chorus.
Old Fritz and the New Era
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The Irish government is only too aware that voters have rejected the European Union's two most recent treaties—those of Nice and Lisbon—before assenting on a second referendum after assurances have been received on key issues.
Irish Gear Up for Referendum Question
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The others nodded in mute agreement, assenting to the terms set down by the car's owner.
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The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring that it has been remitted by God and by assenting to God's remission.
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If he agreed, he was assenting to a conspiracy theory.
Zero-Sum Future
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Mohammedan sword was again unsheathed; for fresh in their memories were the terrible atrocities perpetrated during the former uprising, which was one long intermittent period of bloodshed and pillage lasting from 1861 to 1874, both parties, however, assenting to a cessation of hostilities each year during seedtime and harvest.
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