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The Ministry of Justice as so far declined to grant royal assent on the basis that key safeguards including around coercion had not been written directly into the Isle of Man bill.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Along the way Mr. Warsh has some hope of securing some minimal degree of assent to reforms from other Fed policymakers, influential academics and investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

When his SolarCity solar energy company ran into financial trouble in 2016, he merged it into Tesla with the assent of a compliant Tesla board.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Once Jacqueline Kennedy nodded her assent, Walton eyed the ground and indicated the place to be staked.

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

“I suppose...yes…” said Slughorn in a rather agitated voice, while Hagrid let out a strangled sob of assent.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Hungary has signaled it will back Sweden’s bid once Turkey assents.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

Now, it’s true that not everyone on the subreddit assents to its spiteful premise: One exhausted nurse wrote a long post about how much one of her anti-vax patients suffered, as an attempt at counterbalance.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2021

When a PhD candidate named Charles Walker pleads for late admission to his graduate seminar, Stoner assents with reluctance.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2015

The first thing Fairchild mentions — and Wheeldon immediately assents — is how the space itself changes the nature of the experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2015

Someone assents with a shout, and someone else joins in.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Elliot notes, a bit melodramatically, that while Erika “led me down the path to my destruction,” he actively assented to everything that happened to him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Presidents have done so 132 times; each time, Congress has assented or at least not objected in any tangible way.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

The prosecutors said they played “no role in ICE’s decisions, which defendant assented to, or even knew about those decisions beforehand.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026

A gazette from the Senate Secretariat stated that they were "deemed to have been assented to by the president".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023

Matt assented to the trip readily, and Jethro, with the letter in his pocket, drove off down the road, his heart pounding with excitement.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Isaac Mwaura, spokesperson for the current Kenyan government, told the BBC that the authorities were "very co-operative with the protesters and acceded to the demands, including the president not assenting to the finance bill".

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2024

All of the queen’s, and now the king’s, functions are performed by a governor general acting as their direct representative — assenting to all legislation and determining who becomes Prime Minister.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2023

That’s because assenting to a religion is not like choosing to be a Republican or a Democrat.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2020

Seven months later, he blamed his financial woes on a nationwide “depression,” refused to admit that the Taj was bankrupt, and then signed a four-page document assenting to bankruptcy proceedings.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2020

There was a fearful rumble of assenting and the room grew quiet.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool