Sentence examples for Be assent from inspiring English sources
verb
To agree, to give approval.
Pinto 2001 suggests that the aim of many arguments does not appear to be assent to the truth of a proposition but the withholding of assent (or full assent) or a particular attitude.
If the potential participant agrees to participate, this is considered to be assent, regardless of capacity for full, informed consent.
To be assented to as soon as perceived is a mark of certainty, but not of innateness.
The Act needed only to be assented by Rankin to come into effect.
Silence from George W. Bush is assent.
There's assent and applause from the crowd.
The British did not seem even to understand the need for the European parliament's assent.
But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer.
Recall that opinion is assent to a false impression.
There are times when silence is assent -- and this is one of them.
The mystery is that people are assenting to this, or considering it as progress.
