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Authoritarian clientelist regimes depend on the silent assent of their populations and the loyalty of their elites.
As part of America’s continued war-making, the Pentagon announced in December that US forces would remain indefinitely in Syria, ostensibly to support anti-Assad rebel forces in areas captured from ISIS, and of course without the assent of the Syrian government.
These were adopted not only with America’s assent, but at its insistence, at a time (the mid-2000s) when China’s renminbi was greatly undervalued, contributing to the loss of millions of US manufacturing jobs.
Scientific disciplines are in constant assent.
Universal assent was made possible only by further delaying.
A German minority government would have to hold lengthy debates with all of the Bundestag’s parliamentary groups on every major decision before it could assent to Macron’s proposals – or any other, for that matter.
As Ukraine’s ongoing crisis has demonstrated yet again, former Soviet republics that attempt to make geopolitical decisions without the Kremlin’s assent do not remain intact for long.
So Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania cannot be regarded as special Russian "spheres of influence" requiring Russian assent for membership in either the EU or NATO.
The next scheduled presidential election is not until 2012, as are elections to the Senate, whose assent is needed for most legislation.
By nightfall on the same day, however, she had to assent to the much larger €750 billion rescue package in order to prevent an EU-wide disaster.
With the full support of the United States and the hard-won assent of Russia, the Council unanimously demanded that all parties to the conflict allow unhindered humanitarian access; that they lift sieges; and that they cease all attacks on civilians.
Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, a paraplegic refugee from the village of Jora (now on Israel’s southern coast), worked quietly to build a grass-root movement with the tacit assent of the Israeli army, which sought to encourage an alternative to the PLO.
But it took the Communists two more years to realize that they could not introduce economic reform without Solidarity’s assent.
Unlike the Ukraine government’s assent to extending the Russian Black Sea fleet’s deployment in Crimea – a decision that led to physical violence in Ukraine’s parliament – this was not a prolongation of the status quo, but a public demand for its revision.
With Zuckerberg maintaining most of the voting power, Facebook’s board has little ability to make change without his assent.
On the contrary, it may be impossible to win North Korea’s assent to denuclearization in the absence of far-reaching domestic change.
Mr Ojdanic was indicted a year ago by the Hague-based tribunal, a court established with Moscow's assent, for crimes against humanity in Kosovo.
While the European Union’s national parliaments must still decide on the scheme, they essentially have no option but to assent, because to do otherwise would severely harm the ECB.
The US has either hesitated to embrace the Arab Spring revolutions (Egypt was a particularly striking case) or has given silent assent to their suppression, as in Bahrain.
Yet the most important principle to which the international community has given its assent is respect for sovereign immunity: There are limits beyond which markets – and governments – cannot go.
The hudna worked out between militant Palestinian groups and the Palestinian Authority (with the knowledge of the Americans) clearly lacked a major component: Israel's assent to the agreement.
While Hayek’s defense of the market system against the gross inefficiency of central planning won increasing assent, Keynes’s view that market systems require continuous stabilization lingered on in finance ministries and central banks.
Given Egypt’s concerns about potential water shortages arising from Ethiopia’s new upstream hydropower plants, its assent is far from assured.
America demands that Iraq meet three criteria - promoting regional stability, ending its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, and ending suppression of its own people - to which Saddam will never assent.
But political theater can have a powerful effect on policy debates, determining which arguments can and cannot command broad assent in the public sphere.
And Kim’s assent to a freeze on fissile-material production, and to a roadmap for future negotiations, would compel even pessimists to admit that the summit was a success, and that a more pragmatic US approach – exchanging action for action – had resulted in at least some progress toward denuclearization.
In finding that the prorogation was unlawful, however, the Supreme Court departed from the reasoning of the Scottish Court of Session, which had previously ruled that the prorogation was unlawful because of Johnson’s intent when he sought the Queen’s assent.
Under the auspices of the UN Security Council (with the core assent of the US, China, Russia, France, and the UK), six steps could be agreed to establish a wider peace, not create a wider war.
She nodded her head in assent; then a quarter of an hour later—"Are you going out to-night?" she asked.
George said he felt thirsty (I never knew George when he didn't); and, as I had a presentiment that a little whisky, warm, with a slice of lemon, would do my complaint good, the debate was, by common assent, adjourned to the following night; and the assembly put on its hats and went out.
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