How To Use Assent In A Sentence

Second, that the entire Reichstag assented to the declarations made by the speakers on Tuesday that the Emperor had exceeded his constitutional prerogatives in private discussion with foreigners concerning Germany's attitude on controverted questions. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?
By convention, this assent is always forthcoming.
The Executive undertakes to produce a coherent programme of government which the parliament is duty bound to scrutinise, debate and give assent to.
Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the security council must have indicated its clearly expressed assent.
It is expected to receive royal assent by the year-end. Times, Sunday Times

When, a few years later, Lord Elgin assented to the Rebellion Losses Bill, he established in Canada the practice and procedure of British parliamentary government. Education and the Empire
Now, as for those in our church who contend for the ceremonies, many of them are led by such _argumenta inartificialia_, as wealth, preferment, &c., and if conscience be at all looked to by them, yet they only throw and extort an assent and allowance from it, when worldly respects have made them to propend and incline to an anterior liking of the ceremonies. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
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
The bill is still awaiting royal assent. Times, Sunday Times
He said the minister's stipulation that independent candidates must have the signatures of fifteen assenters in the local elections was a slur on the integrity of non-party candidates.
The raising of taxes without the assent of Parliament was declared illegal.
Thus he became a tacit assenter in wrong-doing, for circumstances thrust this, once in a while, upon the best of our citizens. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
There is a class of persons (happily not quite so numerous as formerly) who think it enough if a person assents undoubtingly to what they think true, though he has no knowledge whatever of the grounds of the opinion, and could not make a tenable defence of it against the most superficial objections. On Liberty
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.
Kellen blushed, and assented, wondering if he'd ever really get the hang of the indirectness of Elven manners. Tran Siberian
There was a murmur of assent from all the career women present. Times, Sunday Times
With just a few months before the bill receives royal assent, lobbying from all sides is in overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
The current ensign wasn't adopted as a fully fledged flag until 1981, when the Queen visited and personally gave her assent.
Principio ut illo advenimus, ubi primum terram tetigimus, continuo Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes; eos legat, Telobois iubet sententiam ut dicant suam; si sine vi et sine hello velint rapta et raptores tradere, si quae asportassent redderent, se exercitum extemplo domum reducturum, abituros agro Argivos, pacem atque otium dare illis; sin aliter sient animati neque dent quae petat, sese igitur summa vi virisque eorum oppidum oppugnassere. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
At the mention of such a grown-up task, Alex squared his shoulders and assented that yes, he had protected his mother from all sorts of dangers while his father was away.
Her eyes held him steady and he breathed deeply before nodding in assent.
He had fallen in love, Mary's beauty and her assent to his affections spinning him like a top.
A low mumble may have signified assent, but probably didn't. Times, Sunday Times
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
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.
Those who want skill to use those evidences they have of probabilities; who cannot carry a train of consequences in their heads; nor weigh exactly the preponderancy of contrary proofs and testimonies, making every circumstance its due allowance; may be easily misled to assent to positions that are not probable. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Yet it has been clear almost since the 2010 act received royal assent that the 2020 target would not be met. Times, Sunday Times
If he agreed, he was assenting to a conspiracy theory. Zero-Sum Future
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
The Bill will get Royal Assent later this year when it will officially go on to the statute books.
The Education Act received the royal assent in 1944.
If to recall good deeds erewhiles performed be pleasure to a man, when he knows himself to be of probity, nor has violated sacred faith, nor has abused the holy assent of the gods in any pact, to work ill to men; great store of joys awaits thee during thy length of years, O Catullus, sprung from this ingrate love of thine. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
Plus qu'a esperer que mes chaussures ne se fassent pas non plus chopper par la douane. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
They enforced the necessity of uniform assentation, in order to lull the Mirabeau party, who were canvassing for a majority to set up D'ORLEANS, to whose interest Mirabeau and his myrmidons were then devoted. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 6
I nodded assent, and promptly closed my eyes and began to daydream.
The Bill received Royal assent the following year. Times, Sunday Times
It was barely a year since the Bubble Act had received its royal assent. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
For example, the voice actors issue pre-recorded phone calls and their conversations are such that all you can do is nod or assent.
By convention, the Queen gives the Royal Assent to all measures passed by Parliament.
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent. Archive 2009-03-01
The others nodded their assent and went back to their respective homes.
Once the directors have given their assent to the proposal we can begin.
A few murmurs of assent ran down the table's length at that remark.
For the celestial groundsman's final touch, early daffodils are starting to gild the verges with a hint of yellow by Buttermere and Bassenthwaite. Country diary: Lake District
The system of Optimism, to which I assent & which I therefore profess, is not without difficulties, great & many. but every other system appears to me to have more Letter 211
Since passage of a bill into law required the assent of all three institutions, compromise was essential.
It was in the same spirit that he had tacitly assented to Fitzpiers's domiciliation there.
People are consulted more to gain their assent or acquiescence rather than to ascertain their views. Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
It is expected to receive royal assent by the year-end. Times, Sunday Times
Page 67 good people of the town, aware of his pertinacity in this particular, had no mind to make points with him, but, on the contrary, rather corroborated him in his dogmatism by an amiable assentation; so that, it is said, he grew daily more peremptory. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
Most heads nod in assent; one or two want to keep on with their writing.
Parental consent and child assent was received from all dyads.
Whereas the assentor for the BNP candidate is Steven Jones. LibDem in Trouble for Supporting the BNP
The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring that it has been remitted by God and by assenting to God's remission.
The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive. INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
He paused in his assent, wielding the weapon with a skill that surely took years of training.
Milhares de brasileiros que vivem em território boliviano estão ameaçados de expulsão porque Evo Morales, sob a alegação de garantir a soberania do seu país, quer assentar 4 mil famílias de camponeses oriundos de La Paz e Cochabamba, em 200 mil hectares de terras localizadas na região fronteiriça. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Bolivia expels Brazilian citizens
Another over-watchful Newbury "awakener" rapped on the head a nodding man who protested indignantly that he was wide-awake, and was only bowing in solemn assent and approval of the minister's arguments. Sabbath in Puritan New England
A low mumble may have signified assent, but probably didn't. Times, Sunday Times
The others nodded in mute agreement, assenting to the terms set down by the car's owner.
Unlike the USAir website, there is not need to affirmatively indicate your assent before purporting to enter into a binding agreement.
Medicine is, by common assent, a good profession.
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
Doone's expression assented but he said merely, 'I'll take another look upstairs now, if you please, sir.' Longshot
And Sextus reports that Arcesilaus also objected to Zeno's conception of belief as assent to an impression, on the ground that assent is a matter of reason or thinking, rather than the acceptance of a non-rational ˜impression™ (M. 7.154). Arcesilaus
Officially, Assent is granted by the Sovereign or by Lords Commissioners authorised to act by letters patent.
Yet it has been clear almost since the 2010 act received royal assent that the 2020 target would not be met. Times, Sunday Times
Tolstoy may have intended partial assent to the idea that, life being insupportable without some straining toward ‘transcendence,’ a belief in God is a psychological necessity.
When he caught the measles from Sairy Baxter's baby Lizzie sot up day 'nd night till he wuz well, holdin' his hands 'nd singin' songs to him, 'nd cryin' herse'f almost to death because she dassent give him cold water to drink when he called f'r it. A Little Book of Profitable Tales
And yet all are confined to small pockets of devotion and none is able to command the assent of the nations of the world. Times, Sunday Times
If the president withholds his assent, the bill will be killed.
It has received royal assent, but cannot come into force until enabling regulations have been passed. Times, Sunday Times
I believe I don't altogether dislike it, sir," assented "Cobbler" Horn in response to the minister's last remark. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
Mrs. Sartoris bowed assent; the introduction made, his name duly inscribed on the lady's tablets, and Captain Conyers exclaimed, Belles and Ringers
‘The present Act never received assent, but this has never been properly challenged,’ she said.
Every time you chose a certain piece of clothing, the man would grunt his assent.
The Commander assented to this as the only feasible solution, and the order was sent accordingly by medium-wave transmitter.
The new bill passed by Parliament has received Royal Assent.
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.
In the case at bar it was clear that the plaintiff, as a creditor, objected to the proposal and did not assent thereto.
The improvvisatrice nodded assent, and after a short prelude broke forth into a wild and varied strain of verse, in a voice so exquisitely sweet, with a taste so accurate, and a feeling so deep that the poetry sounded to the enchanted listeners like the language that Armida might have uttered. Ernest Maltravers — Complete
People are consulted more to gain their assent or acquiescence rather than to ascertain their views. Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
It is about giving assent, support and legitimacy at a transnational level to a most uncivilised field of research.
We give intellectual assent to it, but if we really experience his presence, then renewal will happen. Christianity Today
'commodious' by 'commodious as a college building' without altering our conclusion; though we can guess that the recipient, who thought he was in the lion-house of the Zoo, would be less likely to assent to. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
Wythe passent [67] steppe the lyonn mov'th alonge; The Rowley Poems
Parliament gave its assent to war.
The Greta is one of the most important rivers in the North of England, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, home to otters, herons, kingfishers, dippers, trout and salmon, and the main feeder to Bassenthwaite Lake.
Because royal assent for the changes was only delivered in March some companies haven't got round to doing it yet. Times, Sunday Times
The session having met, and none compearand to signifie their dissent, or assent, they take their non compearance for their signification of satisfaction, so, after three severall byesses at the most patent door of the sd church, by the officer intimating the forsd words, none at all appeared. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
These, when observing men have made them, unobserving men, when they are proposed to them, cannot refuse their assent to. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
We give intellectual assent to it, but if we really experience his presence, then renewal will happen. Christianity Today
But there is a point, when excessive demands are being placed, at which assent becomes obsequious. Times, Sunday Times
Remember that British law still gives lots of nominal power to the monarch – the monarch is in charge of appointing the Prime Minister, of declaring war, of giving “assent” to legislation, etc. Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Case for Parliamentarism
It was barely a year since the Bubble Act had received its royal assent. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
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.
After all, if he had not "assented" to the plan, as he says in his book, he could have acted to save lives. Accuracy In Media
It was the realisation of much which I have affirmed all my life, and steadfastly believed as well, but only with what might be called a notional assent, as the blind man might believe that light is sweet, or one who had never experienced pain might believe it was something from which the senses shrink. Cecilia de Noël
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.
Ita cum lachrymantes inter nos vale dixissemus, et illi suavissima commemoratione illustrium virorum et sanctorum qui similiter è patria tyrannidi cesserunt, maesticiam meam non nihil levassent, media jam nocte in densissimis tenebris solus iter ingredior. "[ The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
There were murmurs of assent before the messenger replied.
We then asked all children of consenting parents to assent to study participation.
Perhaps that's why she has refused to give her assent to a film. Times, Sunday Times
People are consulted more to gain their assent or acquiescence rather than to ascertain their views. Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
Orographic assent is where an airstream hits a mountain and rises because of the topography.
Since making their home at Bassenthwaite in 2001, the first ospreys to do so for 150 years, the ospreys have successfully reared four young.
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.
Instead of being passed over in a two-decade silence, the Holocaust was tossed by a two-decade fitfulness of interpretation, a period during which no version commanded enough assent to get the full attention of the culture, until ﬁnally one version came out on top. Silence after the Holocaust
Fs (or at least one F) but you do not have to believe in Fness; for instance, if we assent to ˜There are some dogs™, then we are committed to believing in the existence of some dogs, but we are not thereby committed to believing in the existence of the property of doghood. Platonism in Metaphysics
Factual assent to an armed assault is one matter; ideological commitment to it another.
Quand ils me les eurent couppez, disoit-elle, ils me les voulurent faire manger; mais ie les mis sur mon giron, et leur dis qu'ils me tuassent s'ils vouloient, que ie ne leur pouuois obeir. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
And the kyng may nought deme no man to dethe, with outen assent of his barouns and other wyse men of conseille, and that alle the court accorde therto. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
At last it came, on his part, to a titanic whimsicalness of assent. Foes
That portion of the Presbyterian church called New School, considering this act unjust, refused to assent to it, joined the exscinded synods, and formed themselves into the New School General Assembly. Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
These ordinances were read out before the community at a further churchyard meeting in September and received community assent.
In what I call bare assent, there is no time-element in the feeling of belief, though there may be in the content of what is believed. The Analysis of Mind
Louis was forced to assent to all the demands of the people; he recalled Necker, and showed himself at the Hôtel de Ville wearing the national cockade or tricolour. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration
It is a deviation from the party line, but a murmur of assent goes up.
It has received royal assent, but cannot come into force until enabling regulations have been passed. Times, Sunday Times
In many areas where congressional assent is necessary, it is almost automatic.
But we say the Chief Justice was right to draw distinction between prospective assent and ratification.
Exactly," says Harmony, and die computer geeks, ever helpful, all nod monkishly in assent. Shampoo Planet
The thesis received respectful attention, but it did not win assent or committed followers.
The President retired for 20 minutes, and then gave his assent to the strike.
Should Parliament assent to the amendments, this requirement will fall away.
The president readily nodded his assent.
When I ask her about this, McTeer nods her assent.
The new bill passed by Parliament has received Royal Assent.
To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.
Harry shot a glance at me quickly, before nodding his assent and followed the uniformed officer out of the room.
To this the dean assented, but alleged that contests on such a subject would be unseemly; to which rejoined a meagre little doctor, one of the cathedral prebendaries, that the contest must be all on the side of Mr. Slope if every prebendary were always there ready to take his own place in the pulpit. Barchester Towers
But an opinion which is opposed by a more probable opinion is not truly and expeditely probable, since its arguments are annulled by more potent opposing arguments and cannot in consequence gain the assent of a prudent man. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
They assented to his request to work from home.
The suggestion was greeted with a murmur of assent.
So the assent theory must be wrong. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
Jones looked an enquiry at His Highness, who nodded assent.
Inverte-se a prioridade de destinação de terras públicas que é pela ordem deve ser terras indígenas, unidades de conservação e assentamentos rurais. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon?
The Medium: There were three -- a kind of tardy assent. Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert
But, because they knew and loved the lama, because he was an old man, because he sought the Way, because he was their guest, and because he collogued long of nights with the head-priest — as free-thinking a metaphysician as ever split one hair into seventy — they murmured assent. Kim
The bill is still awaiting royal assent. Times, Sunday Times
he gave his assent eagerly
In respect to the sympathies of action, which produce or constitute fever with debility, the system may be divided into certain provinces, which are assentient or opposite to each other. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Imagine your private thrill when everyone in the congregation nodded assent.
When he speaks of stupid and intelligent faces he is a physiognomist; he sees that there are intellectual foreheads and microcephalic ones, and is thus a craniologist; he observes the expression of fear and of joy, and so observes the principles of imitation; he contemplates a fine and elegant hand in contrast with a fat and mean hand, and therefore assents to the effectiveness of chirognomy; he finds one hand-writing scholarly and fluid, another heavy, ornate and unpleasant; so he is dealing with the first principles of graphology; -- all these observations and inferences are nowhere denied, and nobody can say where their attainable boundaries lie. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Master Charles readily assented to his mother's proposal, and proceeded at once to the smoke-house to let Maria out.
The formality of being made to click assent is significant, even if one is assenting to standard form contracts.
The play deals, in effect, with prejudicial notions about papist belief, and Calvinist critiques of that belief system, mediated and popularised into commonly held views that would find natural assent from a contemporary audience.
According to the first, the roU containing the 8 H. 6. has a general preface, which mentions the assent of the commons, in terms referrible to all the chapters of that year. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not ...
The new bill passed by Parliament has received Royal Assent.
With just a few months before the bill receives royal assent, lobbying from all sides is in overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
It now awaits ratification and the assent by the Chancellor, as the move requires a change in the University statute.
For they could not, what attempts and stirs soever they made, obtain so much from the instinct by which the appetite is moved to act, as to suffer itself to be called an assent, or to acknowledge sense for the origin and principle of its propension, but it appeared of its own accord to present itself to act, as having no need to be joined with anything else. Essays and Miscellanies
The Maestro assented to the request for an encore
Isabelle de Croye, the Duke expects your Majesty will, on your part, as he on his, yield your assent to the marriage, and unite with him in endowing the right noble couple with such an appanage, as, joined to the Quentin Durward
'disallowance' under which the Crown occasionally annuls colonial Acts which have received the assent of a colonial Governor. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893
The more basic problem lies in the undoubted decline, for a significant minority, of assent to previously popular orthodoxies and ideologies.
Dinwiddie said that the emergency was so great that he had to assent to the act as passed; he did so on February 23 and then prorogued the assembly yet again.7 George Washington’s First War
Perhaps that's why she has refused to give her assent to a film. Times, Sunday Times
D'ailleurs la coutume veut que l'on passe dessous avant d'entrer dans le temple devant lequel il est placé et de repasser en dessous lorsqu'on en sort pour revenir au monde réel (bien souvent les Japonais passent a coté comme ca ils n'ont pas besoin de repasser en dessous pour partir de l'endroit qu'ils visitent .. bande de coquinou!!) Pinku-tk Diary Entry
When lack of assent begins to appear, it may not indicate heresy or apostasy, but herald dramatic development.
'a coté de chez moi il y a un cinema ou ils ne passent que des films intimiste, vraiment la petite salle toute pitite juste pour 20 personnes le truc ou presque personne ne va ' Pinku-tk Diary Entry
The director has given her assent to the proposals.
It is expected to receive royal assent by the year-end. Times, Sunday Times
Such "talking" would never be looked upon with disparagement if it were not allowed to stop "doing"; which it never would, if assemblies knew and acknowledged that talking and discussion are their proper business, while _doing_, as the result of discussion, is the task not of a miscellaneous body, but of individuals specially trained to it; that the fit office of an assembly is to see that those individuals are honestly and intelligently chosen, and to interfere no further with them, except by unlimited latitude of suggestion and criticism, and by applying or withholding the final seal of national assent. Considerations on Representative Government
But of faith, and the precedency it ought to have before other arguments of persuasion, I shall speak more hereafter; where I treat of it as it is ordinarily placed, in contradistinction to reason; though in truth it be nothing else but an assent founded on the highest reason. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
The royal assent is given with the words “la reine le veult”. The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology
Despite complaints from Independents about the difficulty in securing assentors, the field has the largest number of Independents for decades.
He nods his assent and then, realizing he's made a mistake, vigorously shakes his head in denial.
Calendar buyers will learn that it is the third time in 150 years that wild osprey have nested and reared young at Bassenthwaite Lake.
Scientists must proceed cautiously, moving ahead only with the assent of a fair number of their colleagues.
The ironhearted statesman submitted his plan, probably with much management and with some disguise, to Lewis; and Lewis, in an evil hour for his fame, assented. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
Assentor Enterprise suite manages, discovers, and archives messages and provides compliance and litigation support.
Whose favours, because they be in high authority with their prince, by assentation and flattery they labour to obtain. The First Book. The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth
Yeager invited Sanders to share his straw pallet by the fire, and Sanders gratefully assented.
He gave his assent to the proposed legislation.
He stared at me for a moment, as if searching for the proper response, and then finally nodded in assent.
But whether it will receive assent before the upcoming general election remains to be seen. Computing
Je trouvais ca vraiment etrange vu comme elle est enorme que les lettres depassent autant!! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
Westminster in the chappel of S. Katharine, the kings iusticer giuing his assent therevnto, where a councell was held the same time, and a letter of the popes read there before the bishops and barons of the realme, conteining amongst other things this that followeth. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
The most honourable manner of signifying their assent, is to express their applause by the sound of their arms.
I assented, and yielded you the province, upon the understanding, sworn to according to the faith of loyal kings, that within forty days you assign to me its seignory as your vassal. Chivalry
But whether it will receive assent before the upcoming general election remains to be seen. Computing
There was a general, reluctant, grudging assent to do this, but they were all complying when suddenly a voice broke in.
A faint smile passed over his features, as, after having read, he returned, it with an assentient nod to Middlemore. The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1
Christian's answers -- the more intelligible parts of them -- were a stratified succession of _yes_ and _no_, and as he was a man naturally polite and acquiescent, the assentient strata were of more frequent occurrence; but of course, beyond showing his good-will, such answers were of no practical value. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
What is significant, as Kee points out, is that the Roman Church assented to the role Constantine arrogated to himself.
Hooker displays an acute awareness that the hermeneutical task is not simply the intellectual assent to truth.
In the corridor there were orders given and monosyllabic assents.
By convention, the Queen gives the Royal Assent to all measures passed by Parliament.
Once the directors have given their assent to the proposal we can begin.
Mr. Waldegrave I know that the hon. Gentleman agrees with me, because I can see him assenting.
Way, because he was their guest, and because he collogued long of nights with the head-priest -- as free-thinking a metaphysician as ever split one hair into seventy -- they murmured assent. Kim
The ancient practice of "pricking" a name on a piece of parchment presented to Her Majesty at a meeting of the Privy Council is how she gives her assent to that individual becoming a High Sheriff. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
The negroes, like all other dependants, are marked by an abundant spirit of assentation. Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Probleme a regler ... le plafond d'ma chambre (impossible a regler), ma tele playstation x box mes deux lecteurs dvd et mon magneto que je ne sais pas ou mettre sans que les fils fassent un bordel monstre! les trou dans l'mur, les etageres fixees au mur ... tout plein de mini probleme qui finalement me laisse a penser que la dispo actuelle n'est pas si mal meme si elle m'emmerde serieusement!! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
Over Great End, Skiddaw and Blencathra it hurtled, sending cat's-paws racing across the lakes of Bassenthwaite, Derwentwater, Windermere, Coniston Water and fjord-like Ullswater. Country diary: Lake District
I nodded in assent, and slowly moved forward to embrace my coach, mentor, and friend in a gesture of thanks.
The Act will then receive Royal Assent and become effective law three months later - hunting could be banned by early 2005.
an assenting nod

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