assent
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The minister said a "progress report" must be made three months after the legislation receives royal assent, adding this reflects "our intention to quickly produce a response following the consultation".
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said for years that the Fed wouldn’t consider issuing such a currency without Congress’ assent.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Proxy military groups stayed out of the June 2025 war, apparently with Tehran’s assent.
From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026
Disarmament there has frequently been conducted with Hezbollah’s assent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
He doubted that there is any principle of morality which can command universal assent, and he doubted that any of our sophisticated intellectual systems make sense of how the world is.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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