Sentence examples for we assent to from inspiring English sources
We assent to the premise, but not to the conclusion.
– we assent to this quite easily and, besides, the child's world is already oneiric, as you may recall yourself.
And we assent to all this because the writing at the level of the sentence is so sharp and good.
Good prose, after all, relates to our shared essence: we know it when we read it, we assent to it, we get it.
It is a testament to Bennett's extraordinary skill – his genius, even – that we assent to the proposition, which would in real life make a cat laugh, that the Queen could be capable of becoming a reader of fine discernment.
We pay taxes, and drones kill distant kids; we pay for roads, and thousands are killed in cars; we assent to the murder of farm animals that, we can be confident, feel pain and fear.
We acquire the views we hold by assenting to impressions; in every given case, we can assent to an impression, negate it, or withhold judgment.
We cannot assent to this view.
In a newspaper advertisement, the group of women declared: "We cannot assent to the legality of the Law of Entry into Israel, which allows every Israeli and every Jew to move freely in all regions between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River while depriving Palestinians of this same right.
When we hold a self-evident truth, our wills are compelled by the clarity and distinctness of the idea: we "see" the truth so clearly and distinctly that we cannot doubt it; that is, we cannot but assent to it.
