Sentence examples for To assent from inspiring English sources
verb
To agree, to give approval.
To assent to an impression is to take its content as true.
The congregation was asked to assent to Bishop Lane's consecration.
In my experience, the court was often asked merely to assent.
The reader is invited to assent and admire; not to challenge.
"It will be used to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy," Justice Alito wrote.
A small but smart move, that: turn to the guy who's been wavering and force him to assent.
A family member would have to be at the scene to assent to the donation, he said.
With its draconian election law, the regime, incompetent in all other matters, shrewdly put the N.L.D. in the position of having to assent to its own destruction.
Johnson said this morning he would pull all provisions from the amendment bill today if the Tories refuse to assent to the government's plans.
He introduced the concept of an utterance's "stimulus meaning" - the set of stimulations which would prompt a person to assent to that utterance.
He said: "This would have been the perfect opportunity to close loopholes like can the Queen refuse to assent to legislation?
