Sentence examples for our assent from inspiring English sources

We need to negotiate our assent and refusals earlier, collectively.

The President's words have lost the power to compel our assent.

We have learned such sentiments like a script; that we have heard it again and again has not diminished the sternness with which we have given our assent.

He warned that "if we are not adequately involved, we may not be able to give our assent" - meaning "the UK would face the hardest Brexit possible".

There are a few fiction writers whose words reach out to us from the very first sentences of a book, compelling our assent and our delight.

They are, so to speak, grounded – another subliminal stratum of plausibility, which helps us give our assent to the adventures depicted.

Twitter's power is in our shared assent, our cooperation, our delight at co-writing the liner notes of our time.

Human beings may also assent to or withhold assent from these impressions; judgments are the result of our assenting to impressions, or more precisely to the propositional articulations of our impressions.

Their advice has been vital in developing our proxy assent procedures and they continue to actively participate in our study steering group meetings.

(Swinburne, 2004) But the broader distinction between arguments that purport to command our rational assent and arguments that have the more modest goal of showing their conclusions to be to some (perhaps specified) extent confirmed is one that can be employed independently of the use of the language of probability.

Looking simultaneously at the two incidents, from 2005 and now, we should nod our brief assents and huzzahs at those responses, broadly speaking, that work in more than one context.