Sentence examples similar to recent assent from inspiring English sources
A recent example when assent was refused (or, more correctly, when the Lord Chancellor declined to present the law for assent) was in 2007, concerning reforms to the constitution of the Chief Pleas of Sark.
Nothing much ever happened without the quirky assent of the leader or, in recent years, his sons.
The council has described Iraq's Aug. 3 decision to halt new inspections as "unacceptable," but with American assent it has made clear in recent days that it contemplates no new efforts at enforcement.
"The Burden of Tolerance in a World of Division" (Week in Review, Dec. 29) says that at a recent conference on multiculturalism, tolerance was considered "by unspoken assent, an absolute virtue" when thinking about human differences.
The question of when and how to obtain child assent for nontherapeutic research has received increasing attention in recent years.
But the process needs the assent of Ukraine's government, which is why the recent hasty vote was a violation of international law.
To many Germans today, something clearly is amiss, but it has nothing to do with cannibalism, even though a recent case, in which a man killed and ate an eagerly assenting victim, attracted a great deal of notice.
It's in that spirit — and in the hope of provoking assents and dissents, cheers and jeers — that I report the results of three recent sets of food-related awards.
Jordan nodded his assent.
