The phrase "assent could be" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the possibility or potential for agreement or approval in a given context.
Example: "In certain situations, assent could be necessary for the project to move forward."
Alternatives: "agreement might be" or "approval could be".
Parliament's assent could be sought by means of legislation or through resolutions tabled in both Houses of Parliament.
Failure to recruit the desired number of patients was primarily due to difficulties in recruiting patients when neither consent nor assent could be obtained.
Procedures for deferred assent from children were reported in two emergency care trials (CATCH and TOBY), whereby assent could be sought when a child's condition had been stabilized and capacity to assent had returned.
Under such circumstances, formal assent could be delayed for up to 48 hours, and, if it was later withheld, participation in the study was discontinued and the patient's data destroyed.
Knowledge is taken to entail adequately justified assent and, hence, "knowledge" could be replaced by "adequately justified assent" in the Cartesian-style argument.
Now that 15 years have passed since the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 gained assent, he reckons it could be time to look again.
The Modes are tailored to keep us from assenting to something that could be false.
When I asked to chat in person, Sam suggested meeting at CORE, a private Manhattan club where membership is by invitation only and costs $65,000 the first year and where Sam's assent was required before I could be admitted.
The bill would then pass back to the Lords and could be given royal assent on Monday night.
If the legislation is approved it will go to parliament before receiving royal assent, meaning the first female bishops could be ordained in 2014.
Without the formal assent of the union, the administration's strategy could be significantly slowed for months in labor negotiations.
