Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
assenter .
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Examples
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The first question, which has found entirely too many assenters, is "Did French Democracy fail to work and its bad Government of the Third Republic cause the Fall of France in 1940?"
The Sacrifice, the Fall, and the Resurgence of Fighting France
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But assuming that you are neither a sheriff, nor Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant for Greater London, the next step is to find 10 people who are registered to vote in the constituency of your choice to nominate you (or technically a proposer, a seconder and eight "assenters"), and to deliver that plus a deposit for £500 to the Office of Acting Returning Officer before the deadline.
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Although this is obviously not true of all specific manifestations of Christianity, the Christian tradition itself has a sufficient breadth and depth to it that there is room and historical justification for not only conservatives but also liberals, not only orthodox assenters to creeds but debates about creeds and even revision to earlier ideas.
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If two dissenting votes (in the face of a rather large body of evidence) shouldn't disgrace either of the dissenters, why should 114 assenting votes disgrace any of the assenters?
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In fact, there are none too few assenters in the comments section at the ThinkProgress link above, which is rather ugly, and I really don't recommend reading it, though it does give some insight into how detached some men truly are from the experience of womanhood and the seriousness of rape.
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In fact, there are none too few assenters in the comments section at the ThinkProgress link above, which is rather ugly, and I really don't recommend reading it, though it does give some insight into how detached some men truly are from the experience of womanhood and the seriousness of rape.
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Thus, while the King summoned Parliament for the purpose of supply, the latter -- but especially the House of Commons -- petitioned the King for a redress of grievances as its price for meeting the financial needs of the Monarch; and as it increased in importance it came to claim the right to dictate the form of the King's reply, until in 1414 Commons boldly declared themselves to be "as well assenters as petitioners."
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A local authority official will examine your assenters 'photographic identification (any form of identification with a photograph will do) and will check that they are on the Register of Electors.
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A local authority official will examine your assenters 'photographic identification (any form of identification with a photograph will do) and will check that they are on the Register of Electors.
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I want to believe that their efforts have flowered, at least in a few, and that the seed is planted in a few consciousnesses, beneath the hard crust of stereotypes, unbeknownst to dissenters and assenters alike.
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