Sentence examples for given assent from inspiring English sources

The Commons has already given assent in principle and the government will be hoping for a final vote and royal assent by the end of 2016 to start digging in 2017.

It is perhaps harmless enough to say that it can be, since one can hardly imagine an "implication from legislative history" that is "unmistakable"—i.e., that demonstrates agreement to a proposition by a majority of both Houses and the President—unless the proposition is embodied in statutory text to which those parties have given assent.

Tang Wee selected the two boys because they had given assent and obtained parental consent to participate in the study.

On enrolment 34% of patients gave full consent, 21% consented retrospectively, death or discharge prevented retrospective consent in 44%, 1% did not have or regain capacity and 0.3% withdrew consent after their next of kin had given assent.

(A revised version of the proposed reforms was subsequently given assent.

A frequent topic of her explicitly religious poetry is Julian of Norwich, the medieval visionary who wrestled with her own questions about sin and grace, but always against a given assent to God as Love.

Legal guardians provided written informed consent, and minors gave assent to participate.

Witnessing his children's ability to give assent struck a chord and reminded Waligóra of his initial interest in studying the treatment of vulnerable populations in medicine.

If the banks can make progress on a deal to curb pay, advocates of free markets should hold their noses and give assent.

Very few patients for whom the next of kin gave assent later withheld consent.

At the same time, the exclamation expresses a surprise that it dissembles: if it indeed gives assent as if that to which it gives assent were naturally binding upon all, its fervour betrays an uncertainty about that assertion's veracity.