Sentence examples for Formal assent from inspiring English sources

Unlike Congress, India's Parliament does not need to give formal assent.

The efficiency measures still need the formal assent of member states and the European Parliament.

Without the formal assent of the union, the administration's strategy could be significantly slowed for months in labor negotiations.

Royal assent is a feature of constitutional law rather than merely parliamentary procedure: it is the method by which a bill that has passed through parliament becomes an act, and it amounts to a formal assent given by the sovereign.

The position of governor general in Papua New Guinea is largely ceremonial, but its functions include the ability to give formal assent to the appointment of a new prime minister.

Now that Parliament has agreed on the law, it requires just the Queen's formal assent to become law.

It will need "formal royal assent" by the governor general before it becomes law, but that is expected to be granted.

Minutes after Gordon Brown visited Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday to draw a ceremonial line under 13 years of Labour power, he was followed through the portals of Buckingham Palace by David Cameron, his triumphant Conservative successor seeking formal royal assent to an unfamiliar coalition — Britain's first in 65 years — with the Liberal Democrats.

The new archbishop took the oath of allegiance to the Queen during the ceremony, and made a formal written declaration of assent to his election as Archbishop of Canterbury.

In Australia, the formal ceremony of granting Assent in parliament has not been regularly used since the early 20th century.

Formal consent with the parent and assent with the child were obtained immediately before the interviews according to the protocol approved by the Hospital for Sick Children Research Ethics Board, Toronto Ontario, Canada.