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Example sentences for "common consent"

  • The principle of common consent is thus observed in all the organizations of the Church.

  • Each book was tested on its own merits, and all were declared by common consent to be authoritative and binding on the churches.

  • Show how the principle of common consent is observed in appointments to office within the Church.

  • Its operation so far as it extended has been mutually advantageous, and it still continues in force by common consent.

  • By common consent, even of the greatest admirers of the play, the fifth act is a kind of gratuitous appendix of horrors stuck on without art or reason.

  • The creed of the Germans had been adopted by common consent.

  • Theodore Beza opened the discussion by reading the reply which he had carefully prepared by common consent of all his brethren.

  • Normanby was miserably feeble in reply, and exhibited, by common consent, a sad failure, both on this occasion and on that of the Canada Bill.

  • Town limits were often changed almost by common consent in order to throw a mill outside so that it would not be subject to town taxes.

  • In some States a few men had ruled almost by common consent.

  • By common consent, however, I do not mean the consent of every body; I mean that of the great majority of serious, thinking men.

  • But the business of teaching, by a pre-eminence not very enviable, stands, almost by common consent, at the head of the catalogue.

  • In proportion to her numbers, the State of South Carolina furnished the largest contingent to the faction of active conspirators; and to her, by a common consent, were accorded the dangers and honors of leadership.

  • In those days, by common consent, the spread of the black man's bondage to the new countries was prohibited; but now Congress decides that it will not continue the prohibition, and the Supreme Court decides that it could not if it would.

  • Yet, by common consent, the blame for the defeat was placed on the aliens and their presses.

  • On July 12th, the former committee brought in a draft of thirteen Articles of Confederation, by common consent ascribed to John Dickinson, but evidently based on Franklin's draft of a year before.

  • To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore.

  • A precedent is something which comes down to us from the past with the sanction of usage and of common consent.

  • And how can it be accommodated to the understanding, unless it receive the sanction of common consent?

  • Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent, not as natural, but as artificial, signs of our ideas.

  • Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas.

  • Thereupon Pedro Llorente, the oldest of the delegates, took the chair by common consent as temporary president, and Enrique Villuendas, the youngest delegate, similarly occupied the desk of the secretary.

  • Both Houses of Congress shall open and close their sessions on the same day; they shall meet in the same city, and neither shall move to any other place, or adjourn for more than three days, except by common consent.

  • Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.

  • A WORD is an articulate sound used by common consent as the sign of an idea,"--Bullions, Analyt.

  • Words are certain articulate sounds used by common consent as signs of our ideas.

  • By common consent we agreed to accept the New York code of practice as the basis of our own, but with a notable exception in regard to proceedings in equity.

  • Leaving that in June, 1845, and coming to Oregon City to vote, he still, without effort on his part, was by common consent in the first place.

  • Thereupon the soldiers, whom the magistrates had begun to levy on news of the siege, were dismissed, and a public mourning made by common consent.


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