Club Med leaders will not be able to command popular assent for such 1930s scorched-earth strategies.

The lieutenant's conjectures were so reasonable that they commanded assent.

Though such Marxist arguments scarcely command universal assent, liberal economists and political scientists have been challenged to find a way to hold feuding capitalist states together.

Like most notions that command almost universal assent, the proposed ban on genetic discrimination makes far less sense the more you think about it.

Not their falsity but their inability to command assent rendered them 'inoperative.'

His speculations, even when they were, as we now know, quite erroneous, had such an astonishing verisimilitude to the actual facts of nature that they commanded universal assent.

But in the days of Tycho Brahe this doctrine had not as yet commanded universal assent.

And to the extent that it has a central premise, the premise is not one that commands assent.

Consequently, the author's observations on the challenges presented to America by Europe's stubborn and growing European-ness command respect even when they do not command assent.

But, however sketchy or plain foolish the history and social anthropology might be, the existence of long-term degeneration, in some key respects at least, commanded widespread assent.