Synonym: accept, agree, approve of, comply, consent. Antonym: disagreement, disapproval, dissent. Similar words: passenger, essential, essentially, assessment, essentiality, essence, asset, sentiment. Meaning: [ə'sent] 
n. agreement with a statement or proposal to do something. v. to agree or express agreement.
n. agreement with a statement or proposal to do something. v. to agree or express agreement. 
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31. The court gave its assent.
32. The president readily nodded his assent.
33. The bill is expected to received royal assent in July, the regulations to come into force early 1994.
34. In many areas where congressional assent is necessary, it is almost automatic.
35. The Bill will get Royal Assent later this year when it will officially go on to the statute books.
36. Once a bill has received the assent of both Houses it then goes to the monarch for the Royal Assent.
37. Most heads nod in assent; one or two want to keep on with their writing.
38. The Bill authorizing the conversion of a number of tram routes to trolleybus operation received Royal Assent on 31 July.
39. The new law will become effective three months from when it receives royal assent.
40. There was a knock on the door, and when he grunted muffled assent it opened and some one came in.
41. Most of them are therefore likely to give their assent.
42. The Town Development Act received the royal assent in August 1952.
43. The bill would take effect after receiving the assent of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
44. Scientists must proceed cautiously, moving ahead only with the assent of a fair number of their colleagues.
45. She nodded her assent and came down from the tree.
46. This is no new thought and many theorists, although moving from quite different assumptions, could readily give assent.
47. There was a small sound of assent so Edward began putting clothes in the bureau.
48. Two days later the Education Act of 1944 received the royal assent.
49. By convention, the monarch gives the Royal Assent to all legislative measures approved by Parliament.
50. On 16 January 1707 the Treaty of Union received its royal assent.
51. Three days after my sixteenth birthday, in August 1944, Butler's Education Act received the royal assent.
52. Without waiting for my assent, he pulled writing materials from his cloak,[http://sentencedict.com/assent.html] where I saw he had several notebooks.
53. One form of assent is the very act of claiming or exercising the right.
54. Rainbow feels caught out, blushes, nods a diffident assent, but says nothing.
55. The crowd seemed reasonably relaxed, both assent and indignation muted.
56. In Britain, most people with an informed opinion would assent to it enthusiastically.
57. The raising of taxes or the dispensing of laws without the assent of Parliament was declared to be illegal.
58. Other parents nodded their assent, while I gave myself a quick quiz.
59. That celebrated sage, the man on the Clapham omnibus, would no doubt readily assent to it.
60. Scepticism is dogmatic when assent is withheld on the basis of prior conviction without considering the evidence.
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