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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
• 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. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
• If he agreed, he was assenting to a conspiracy theory. Zero-Sum Future
• The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring that it has been remitted by God and by assenting to God's remission.
• The others nodded in mute agreement, assenting to the terms set down by the car's owner.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• The formality of being made to click assent is significant, even if one is assenting to standard form contracts.