Sentence examples for unanimous assent from inspiring English sources
The legislature, which has all the independence of an organ grinder's monkey, voted its unanimous assent.
To her credit, Obama has attempted to tackle the issue in a non-partisan manner – in fact, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, legislation endorsed by the first lady, passed in the Senate by unanimous assent.
When those people start clapping and cheering too, this may lead to a cascade effect, in which all but those who have the highest thresholds are influenced to start cheering in what appears to the outsider like an unprompted roar of unanimous assent from the masses.
Yields on Spanish and Portuguese debt also shot up as electoral gains made by an anti-euro party in Finland fed concern that a possible 80 billion-euro plan to rescue Portugal — which requires unanimous assent by European Union countries — might be jeopardized.
It must result from the unanimous assent of the several States that are parties to it, differing no other wise from their ordinary assent than in its being expressed, not by the legislative authority, but by that of the people themselves.
Nevertheless, it was reported that there was unanimous assent among them that some reform to legalize the status of undocumented aliens was needed.
But in a Thursday editorial headlined "The delicate matter of where to try suspects," the Kenya Times, which is owned by Moi's party, observed "that this country's capacity to counter terrorism during a trial that could be protracted is limited". Assent was far from unanimous, however.
Sometime soon, before the countdown begins, Mr. Bush must provide his Cabinet with a clear statement of his intentions and invite them to express their assent, recording it as a formal, ultimately unanimous, vote.
The vote by the directors, who met in Plymouth while the court proceedings were taking place in London, is understood ultimately to have been unanimous, with another director, Keith Todd, Synan and the Japanese investor, Yasuaki Kagami, assenting to it.
For these reasons I very cordially give my assent to the gentleman's motion, and hope it will have the unanimous approbation of this company.
