He promptly fired a letter off, through his lawyer, declaring he that was confounded by the request that he assent to any such payment. |
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He made a noise of what I took to be assent, muffled as it was by the furious flapping of his frilly pinny over the shrieking smoke alarm. |
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We want leaders, not bobble-head dolls who nod their assent to whatever the administration tells them to do. |
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Hooker displays an acute awareness that the hermeneutical task is not simply the intellectual assent to truth. |
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He paused in his assent, wielding the weapon with a skill that surely took years of training. |
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Orographic assent is where an airstream hits a mountain and rises because of the topography. |
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Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the security council must have indicated its clearly expressed assent. |
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The lessor can neither refuse the license to assign, nor assent to the assignment, for he has nothing more to do with it. |
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When lack of assent begins to appear, it may not indicate heresy or apostasy, but herald dramatic development. |
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When it is a case of majority assent or approval, issues arise as to the effect on the minority. |
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In Scotland and in England royal assent was required in order to dissect the bodies of hanged felons. |
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The royal assent to this shoddy measure is not a victory for the government, but a defeat for all the rest of us. |
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These bills have been presented to the governor-general for royal assent and will come into effect 28 days following his decision. |
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On June 11, the First Nations Land Management Act passed in both houses of Parliment and royal assent will follow within the next month. |
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The bill received royal assent on Dec.18, but will not enter into force until a date determined by the government. |
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The role of the Queen here is meant to be symbolic, although every Bill that is passed in Parliament must have royal assent. |
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The bill is then sent to the monarch for royal assent, which is invariably given. |
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I will explain how this came about, since I still cannot believe that I was so incautious as to assent when the Lord asked me to come down. |
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Unlike the USAir website, there is not need to affirmatively indicate your assent before purporting to enter into a binding agreement. |
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Imagine your private thrill when everyone in the congregation nodded assent. |
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His professed attitude of withholding assent was adopted to avoid error and rashness of judgement. |
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It now awaits ratification and the assent by the Chancellor, as the move requires a change in the University statute. |
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But they clung to their plan and carried on without constitutional approval and parliamentary assent. |
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But we say the Chief Justice was right to draw distinction between prospective assent and ratification. |
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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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Should Parliament assent to the amendments, this requirement will fall away. |
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We then asked all children of consenting parents to assent to study participation. |
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There was a general, reluctant, grudging assent to do this, but they were all complying when suddenly a voice broke in. |
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Stifling another giggle, she only nods her agreement, unable to voice her assent. |
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He had fallen in love, Mary's beauty and her assent to his affections spinning him like a top. |
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It's going to be very hot, says Barney, to murmurs of assent from Crimson Brit and Urban Chic man, chiming in for the first time. |
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The more basic problem lies in the undoubted decline, for a significant minority, of assent to previously popular orthodoxies and ideologies. |
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Not to anyone's amazement, a woman was found in the audience who began nodding vigorous assent to everything Charles said. |
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Harry shot a glance at me quickly, before nodding his assent and followed the uniformed officer out of the room. |
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Solzhenitsyn, we can reasonably assent to Nabokov's formulation, thundered against vicious cruelty. |
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He became quizzical yet some of them nodded their assent or what he took to be assent. |
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While this conclusion is not likely to compel universal assent, it is an option that deserves more notice in Marcan interpretation. |
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The current ensign wasn't adopted as a fully fledged flag until 1981, when the Queen visited and personally gave her assent. |
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Often, only the pressure of the spending timetable in the plan forced grudging assent out of some of the voting members. |
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The respondent signed her assent to the petitions and obtained the assents of two other heirs-at-law. |
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The one baptized is in a state of grace and must assent to, and cooperate with, this infusion in order to become inherently righteous. |
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By convention, the monarch will not refuse her assent to a Bill passed by Parliament and she will act on the advice of her ministers. |
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It is about giving assent, support and legitimacy at a transnational level to a most uncivilised field of research. |
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Yet a vague assent to a vague assertion only yields twice as much vagueness. |
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To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. |
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The patient may then readily assent to other requirements we both agree on. |
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Every time you chose a certain piece of clothing, the man would grunt his assent. |
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It seemed as if the August decrees could not have secured royal assent by any other means. |
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Before receiving royal assent, bills must also be discussed by the House of Lords. |
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Those changes come into force the day after the date on which the bill receives royal assent. |
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These ordinances were read out before the community at a further churchyard meeting in September and received community assent. |
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For example, the voice actors issue pre-recorded phone calls and their conversations are such that all you can do is nod or assent. |
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She is the sort of person who, if you called her an unregenerate hippie, might proudly nod assent. |
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The most honourable manner of signifying their assent, is to express their applause by the sound of their arms. |
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I nodded in assent, and slowly moved forward to embrace my coach, mentor, and friend in a gesture of thanks. |
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Both ambassadors nodded assent, as did the Council President as he looked around the room. |
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This doubt spreads to the narrator's reliance on the narratee's assent and approval. |
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The thesis received respectful attention, but it did not win assent or committed followers. |
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He stared at me for a moment, as if searching for the proper response, and then finally nodded in assent. |
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Everyone nodded and murmured their assent, and then began to shout out suggestions. |
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This provision requires the Council to act unanimously after receiving the opinion of the Commission and the assent of the Parliament. |
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Later, there is a formal ceremony in Rome but his authority as Pope is present from the moment of assent. |
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In the case at bar it was clear that the plaintiff, as a creditor, objected to the proposal and did not assent thereto. |
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Upper houses have only one hold over governments, their ability to withhold assent from government legislation. |
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Since passage of a bill into law required the assent of all three institutions, compromise was essential. |
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They give ample assurance that it would be unreasonable to withhold assent. |
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Because subjects who give assent have diminished capacity, permission from their proxies also should be obtained. |
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It will become law after Commissioner Peter Irniq gives it royal assent. |
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Construction started in September 1844, when the royal assent was granted. |
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He laughed at his own description, nodding assent, and laughing also. |
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Griffin nodded his assent, and twitched Kiwen's reins to turn him. |
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The first soldier to charge across this rhetorical veld is followed by hundreds harrumphing their assent. |
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It is a deviation from the party line, but a murmur of assent goes up. |
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Following royal assent, and a one-year phase-in period, Section 13 will be history. |
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Peers had attempted to extend disability rights to sufferers of depression, but backed down from a confrontation and allowed the bill to gain assent. |
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A few murmurs of assent ran down the table's length at that remark. |
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At the moment, the treaty assumes each state will go through with its own ratification procedure either by referendum or by assent through individual parliaments. |
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The Bill to abolish foxhunting in Scotland received royal assent on Friday, becoming an Act days before MPs are due to vote on similar legislation for England and Wales. |
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The others nodded their assent and went back to their respective homes. |
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If the president withholds his assent, the bill will be killed. |
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Parental consent and child assent was received from all dyads. |
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I nodded assent, and promptly closed my eyes and began to daydream. |
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They indicate those objects toward which and those areas within which every human being is entitled to act without securing further permission or assent. |
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It has blossomed verdantly and viciously since Howard gave silent assent. |
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The leader of the House of Commons said that if discussions with the opposition parties reached a satisfactory conclusion, 16 bills will have received royal assent. |
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The crowd of political newcomers, and former Labour and Conservative voters roared their assent. |
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But so strong are the temptations to deviate from this path that we must make it an unbreakable precept never to give our assent unless the evidence compels it. |
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Yes, dissent is patriotic, as liberals love to declaim, but assent is an important part of patriotism too. |
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Her eyes held him steady and he breathed deeply before nodding in assent. |
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The Executive undertakes to produce a coherent programme of government which the parliament is duty bound to scrutinise, debate and give assent to. |
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What has been done in most cases has been simply to select the first page of them showing the date of assent, preceded, of course, by the prorogation. |
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In such cases, it has the power either to assent or to withhold assent. |
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Lastly, in 1571, the Settlement gained teeth sharper than the Act of Uniformity, when a Subscription Act required the beneficed clergy to assent to the Thirty-nine Articles. |
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They might even assent to the idea that more and more women want marriage and children, not the bogus liberation that the sexual revolution purveyed. |
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The bobbleheads are yes-men, quietly nodding in assent to the questions they raise, while raising even more. |
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The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon. |
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Where a trustee refuses either to assent or dissent, the Court will itself exercise his authority. |
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The Jeddak of Ptarth nodded his assent, but the ugly scowl that he bent upon Matai Shang harbored ill for that pasty-faced godling. |
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The king rejected the Grand Remonstrance and refused to give royal assent to the Militia Ordinance. |
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Instead, the Commons passed the bill as an ordinance, which they claimed did not require royal assent. |
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For instance, the monarch of the United Kingdom can theoretically exercise an absolute veto over legislation by withholding royal assent. |
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On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum. |
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Bills pass through Parliament in a number of stages before receiving royal assent, whereupon they become Acts of the Scottish Parliament. |
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The Act was passed on 17 November 1998, and received royal assent two days later on 19 November. |
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Although the Governor General can refuse to assent a bill or reserve the bill for the Queen at this stage, this power has never been exercised. |
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However, royal assent is usually granted less ceremonially by letters patent. |
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Royal assent is the final step required for a parliamentary bill to become law. |
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No monarch has since withheld royal assent on a bill passed by the British parliament. |
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However, George IV reluctantly granted his assent upon the advice of his ministers. |
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Royal assent is the final stage in the legislative process for acts of the Scottish parliament. |
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The equivalent of the royal assent is not sufficient to cause an Act of Tynwald to come into full force of law in the Isle of Man. |
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Although the governor's assent is also normally granted, this is altogether different in nature to the royal assent. |
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In federated realms, assent in each state, province, or territory is granted or withheld by the representatives of the sovereign. |
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A lieutenant governor may defer assent to the governor general, and the governor general may defer assent to federal bills to the sovereign. |
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In each case, the parliament must be apprised of the granting of assent before the bill is considered to have become law. |
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At both state and federal realms in Australia, assent is used as the means of enforcing a referendum that is required. |
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They therefore are unlikely to advise the sovereign, or his or her representative, to withhold assent. |
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Officially, assent is granted by the sovereign or by Lords Commissioners authorised to act by letters patent. |
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Before the reign of Henry VIII, the sovereign always granted his or her assent in person. |
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As a result, the Royal Assent Act 1967 was passed, creating an additional form for the granting of royal assent. |
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In all of the realms, however, assent is more often granted or signified outside the legislature, with each house being notified separately. |
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In Australia, the formal ceremony of granting assent in parliament has not been regularly used since the early 20th century. |
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However, the act provides that a grant of royal assent is not rendered invalid by a failure to employ the traditional ceremony where required. |
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The constitution of Jordan grants its monarch the right to withhold assent to laws passed by its parliament. |
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The bill passed and the Prince now has many additional powers, including the power to withhold royal assent on his own accord. |
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Royal assent in the Netherlands is required, under article 87 of the Dutch constitution, for a bill to become law. |
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Likewise, in 2010, King Juan Carlos gave royal assent to a law permitting abortion. |
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Articles 41 and 68 of the constitution empower the sovereign to withhold royal assent from bills adopted by the Legislative Assembly. |
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Once a bill is introduced, there are four stages that need to be completed prior to the bill being submitted for royal assent. |
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After the period of intimation expires, the Clerk may submit the bill for royal assent. |
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The bill becomes an Act of the Assembly when Letters Patent under the Welsh Seal are made by the Queen to signify assent. |
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Norfolk was executed, and the English Parliament introduced a bill barring Mary from the throne, to which Elizabeth refused to give royal assent. |
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In 1261, Henry revoked his assent to the Provisions of Oxford and Montfort, in despair, left the country. |
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Linking the ironworks of Merthyr to the ports of Cardiff, the Taff Vale line was given royal assent in 1836, with work commencing the same year. |
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In 1933 its constitution was modified as a result of the Presbyterian Church in Wales Act of Parliament in 1933, receiving Royal assent. |
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At first the bailiffs submitted legislation for the assent of the kommandant signed in their capacities as lieutenant governors. |
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The king also retained some traditional powers such as the power to appoint his heirs, the power to grant pardons, and the royal assent. |
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Any decision that requires the assent of the pope has to wait until the new pope has been elected and accepts office. |
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In many jurisdictions, conciliar resolutions that have been passed require episcopal assent or consent to take force. |
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The term should not be confused with Order of Council, which is made in the name of the Council without royal assent. |
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Although the Orders are officially made by the Queen, in practice, royal assent is a formality only. |
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It was feared that many of the delegates would refuse to give their individual assent to the Constitution. |
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This also applies in those Eastern churches which are in union with the pope, though it is required that he give assent. |
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The proposed final draft of Article 2B met with controversy within the ALI, and as a consequence the ALI did not grant its assent. |
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The phrase is used to signify that the Monarch has granted his or her royal assent to a bill in order to make it become law. |
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The phrase is also written on the paper of the bill to show that the Monarch granted royal assent to the bill. |
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The practice of giving royal assent originated in the early days of Parliament to signify that the King intended for something to be made law. |
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Royal assent was occasionally given in English, though more usually in French. |
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The old practice of giving assent in Norman French was resumed following the English Restoration in 1660 and has continued ever since. |
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Anne withheld royal assent from the Scottish Militia Bill 1708 in case the militia raised in Scotland was disloyal and sided with the Jacobites. |
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The bill will then go before the Monarch who has formal discretion whether to assent to the bill. |
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Mrs Dosett, aware that daintiness was no longer within the reach of her and hers, did assent to these walkings in Kensington Gardens. |
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There was a ripple of assent in the crowd as the word spread. |
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The crowd on the floor responded with a half-hearted murmur of assent. |
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Many, therefore, who did not assent to all that the King had said, joined in a loud hum of approbation when he concluded. |
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The origin of the word 'truth,' Old English trewth, means 'loyalty,' and truth involves loyalty as well as assent. |
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By the second of these powers, the President may refuse to assent to legislation passed by Parliament when he or she considers it to be unconstitutional. |
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According to Article 91, within fifteen days that a bill has been passed by the Cortes Generales, the king shall give his assent and publish the new law. |
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The power to withhold royal assent to Bills is controversial. |
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If there is a question regarding the constitutionality of the bill, the president may refer it to the Supreme Court of Ireland but otherwise may not withhold assent. |
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Scripture does not compel a mere intellectual assent to its doctrine, resting on logical argumentation, but rather it creates the living agreement of faith. |
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In matters of faith and morals, the bishops speak in the name of Christ and the faithful are to accept their teaching and adhere to it with a religious assent. |
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That fatal look of a common intelligence, of a common assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the prisoner's life and death, as the judge concluded. |
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Despite cognitive and experiential immaturity, older children's nonadult status and assent vulnerabilities do not justify ignoring their privacy rights. |
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The petitioned gain royal assent in 1853 and plans were made by the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint in London to open the Royal Mint's first overseas branch within the colony. |
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Letters patent may also be used to grant royal assent to legislation. |
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If a regent did assent to a bill of these kinds, it may not be held to be a valid law even if it gained the approval of both houses and royal assent. |
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The Secretary of State for Wales may also make an order prohibiting the Clerk to the Assembly from submitting the Bill for royal assent during this time. |
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According to Article 91, within fifteen days of passage of a bill by the Cortes Generales, the sovereign shall give his or her assent and publish the new law. |
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Liechtenstein allows its monarch to withhold royal assent of his own will. |
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In both cases, however, the process of royal assent is usually a formality, whether by constitutional convention or by an explicit provision of the constitution. |
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However, the date on which the assent was notified is printed in brackets. |
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Then, the presiding officer makes a formal, but simple statement to the house, acquainting each house that royal assent has been granted to the acts mentioned. |
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The Clerk of the Parliaments presented the bills awaiting assent to the monarch, save that supply bills were traditionally brought up by the speaker. |
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In the United Kingdom, a bill is presented for royal assent after it has passed all the required stages in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. |
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In 1981, an Order in Council delegated to the lieutenant governor the power to grant the equivalent of the royal assent to bills passed by the Tynwald. |
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In the first two of the three ways, the evidentness of the mental sentence is such that its formation is not sufficient to bring about mi ensuing act of assent. |
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An Order in Council of 13 July 2011 established new rules for the consideration of petitions against the granting of the equivalent of the royal assent. |
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A recent example when the equivalent of the royal assent was refused was in 2007, concerning reforms to the constitution of the Chief Pleas of Sark. |
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The last Stuart monarch, Anne, similarly withheld on 11 March 1707, on the advice of her ministers, her assent from a bill for the settling of Militia in Scotland. |
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After the English Civil War, it was accepted that parliament should be summoned to meet regularly, but it was still commonplace for monarchs to refuse royal assent to bills. |
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Before the Royal Assent by Commission Act of 1541 became law, assent was always required to be given in person before Parliament by the sovereign. |
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Royal assent is sometimes associated with elaborate ceremonies. |
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Once a bill has passed both Houses in an identical form, it receives final, formal examination by the Governor General, who gives it the royal assent. |
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It was brought back, beribboned and sealed, by the Clerk of the Commons himself, and handed to the Clerk of the Parliament to receive the Royal assent. |
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The Channel Tunnel Act gained Royal assent and passed into law in July. |
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In order for a bill to become law it would have to be approved by a majority of both Houses of Parliament before it passed to the monarch for royal assent or veto. |
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In March 1642, with the King absent from London and war clouds gathering, Parliament decreed that its own Parliamentary Ordinances were valid laws, even without royal assent. |
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In 1536, for example, Henry granted his assent to the Laws in Wales Act 1535, which legally annexed Wales, uniting England and Wales into a single nation. |
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A great council was supposed to advise the king and give assent to royal decisions, although it is unclear how much freedom they actually enjoyed to oppose Henry's intentions. |
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In June 1824 the Thames Tunnel Company was incorporated by royal assent. |
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