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How to use assent in a sentence

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He promptly fired a letter off, through his lawyer, declaring he that was confounded by the request that he assent to any such payment.
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.
We want leaders, not bobble-head dolls who nod their assent to whatever the administration tells them to do.
He paused in his assent, wielding the weapon with a skill that surely took years of training.
Orographic assent is where an airstream hits a mountain and rises because of the topography.
Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the security council must have indicated its clearly expressed assent.
The lessor can neither refuse the license to assign, nor assent to the assignment, for he has nothing more to do with it.
When lack of assent begins to appear, it may not indicate heresy or apostasy, but herald dramatic development.
When it is a case of majority assent or approval, issues arise as to the effect on the minority.
In Scotland and in England royal assent was required in order to dissect the bodies of hanged felons.
The royal assent to this shoddy measure is not a victory for the government, but a defeat for all the rest of us.
These bills have been presented to the governor-general for royal assent and will come into effect 28 days following his decision.
On June 11, the First Nations Land Management Act passed in both houses of Parliment and royal assent will follow within the next month.
The bill received royal assent on Dec.18, but will not enter into force until a date determined by the government.
The role of the Queen here is meant to be symbolic, although every Bill that is passed in Parliament must have royal assent.
The bill is then sent to the monarch for royal assent, which is invariably given.
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.
Unlike the USAir website, there is not need to affirmatively indicate your assent before purporting to enter into a binding agreement.
Hooker displays an acute awareness that the hermeneutical task is not simply the intellectual assent to truth.
His professed attitude of withholding assent was adopted to avoid error and rashness of judgement.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The imprecatory manner of it may be considered to be simply a solemn signification of the speaker's own assent and approval.
The Governor-General and the Crown to have also power of assent, reservation or disallowance.
The foreman only glanced at him in silence, and the young man took this for assent.
I worked an imaginary account under colored direction, using the adding machine, and gave assent to its infallibility.
With a nod of assent the youth pushed forward, gained the rock, and found the place where water had once been, a dry hole!
Was he not, moreover, withholding his assent from the Act of annates, which would deprive the Pope of large revenues?
Here he became specific, borrowing from Lockean empiricism his conditions of intellectual assent.
And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance.
The assent had been arduous for a gentleman inclined to portliness and with wind impaired by tobacco.
It might have been, from his large assent to it, a masterstroke of high policy.
And then, as the other nodded in assent, she spoke with a compelling kindliness.
The bill, however, was carried in both Houses, and received the royal assent.
The Cytherean gave ready assent to her request, and laughed at the wily invention.
He became most anxious to prevent the bill from being presented to him for his royal assent.
Peaceful studied his face, found it stern and unyielding, and nodded assent.
The Italian affirmative si is sufficiently near the Chinese shee, or zee, expressing assent.
The assent of Protagoras to this last position is extracted with great difficulty.
We are too apt to give an indifferent hearing or a cold assent to home truth.
The obligations of quasi contracts are imposed by law without reference to the assent of the obligor.
The scope of the ancient obligation was not extended without the warrantor's assent.
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