(1) The thesis received respectful attention, but it did not win assent or committed followers.

(2) Peers had attempted to extend disability rights to sufferers of depression, but backed down from a confrontation and allowed the bill to gain assent .

(3) Allowing time for completion of the negotiations, then assent and ratification, the first accessions are expected around 2004.

(4) They give ample assurance that it would be unreasonable to withhold assent .

(5) These ordinances were read out before the community at a further churchyard meeting in September and received community assent .

(6) He nodded assent

(7) But we say the Chief Justice was right to draw distinction between prospective assent and ratification.

(8) Because subjects who give assent have diminished capacity, permission from their proxies also should be obtained.

(9) I nodded assent , and promptly closed my eyes and began to daydream.

(10) A few murmurs of assent ran down the table's length at that remark.

(11) She is the sort of person who, if you called her an unregenerate hippie, might proudly nod assent .

(12) They indicate those objects toward which and those areas within which every human being is entitled to act without securing further permission or assent .

(13) When it is a case of majority assent or approval, issues arise as to the effect on the minority.

(14) He stared at me for a moment, as if searching for the proper response, and then finally nodded in assent .

(15) It now awaits ratification and the assent by the Chancellor, as the move requires a change in the University statute.

(16) The others nodded their assent and went back to their respective homes.

(17) Parental consent and child assent was received from all dyads.

(18) At the moment, the treaty assumes each state will go through with its own ratification procedure either by referendum or by assent through individual parliaments.

(19) Her eyes held him steady and he breathed deeply before nodding in assent .

(20) The governor has power to withhold his assent from a bill