Sentence examples for readily assented from inspiring English sources
So when a lighting designer two years ago proposed installing light emitting diodes or LEDs, an emerging lighting technology, the royal family readily assented.
But when Debra got him a DVD player and then, on top of that, readily assented to his golf weekend, Raymond insisted that Debra was just trying to turn the tables on him -- to make him feel guilty.
When I asked if she identifies as a radical feminist one of Brown's staffers had told me, with some hesitation, that she did she readily assented, though she added, "There's no question that this has been a white middle-class feminism, and what I see happening is the change: it's more inclusive, and I think that's long overdue".
Writers like Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and Robert Penn Warren — though deluded about the concentration-camp society of the prewar South as it really was — had a worked-out and potent ideology, and one readily assented to by people who should have known better.
Shane, who had been performing part-time as a solo act at night in Honolulu, readily assented and returned to the mainland in early March 1957.
That is a sentiment to which almost all governments readily assent, even in the (quite large) slice of the world where links exist between officialdom, the police and the shady types who trade in flesh.And at least in principle, cross-border trafficking is acknowledged to be so manifestly dreadful that every civilised state must be seen to help correct this wrong.
Assent is regulated by our awareness of logical consistency or contradiction between the proposition under consideration and beliefs that one already holds: when we are not aware of any consideration, we assent readily, but when we perceive a conflict we are strongly constrained to reject one or the other of the conflicting views (2.26.3).
If one thinks perceptively and carefully about what to pursue (or shun) and do (or forbear from), one can readily understand and assent to practical propositions such as that life and health, knowledge, and harmony with other people are desirable for oneself and anyone else.
