(v. t.) To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession.
(v.) The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa have assented to the new legislation, and the Free State Dail meets to-day.
(2) On the day royal assent was finally given to the coalition's controversial Energy Act, the EU's executive arm expressed doubts that British ministers could justify state aid to nuclear which it estimated could reach £17bn.
(3) The vast majority of EU states opposed the shift, but assented in order to preserve a semblance of unified policy.
(4) The bill gives the unions only three months to get a union member’s signature assenting to the payment of the levy.
(5) Since then, the HS2 paving bill has received royal assent and the Commons has overwhelmingly passed two readings of the hybrid bill – essentially the planning application for the London-Birmingham part of the eventual network – and the supreme court has dismissed appeals for a judicial review.
(6) As things stand, an agreed bill must be finalised by the Commons no later than 28 February so that it can receive royal assent and become law.
(7) The prime minister had been expected to swiftly invoke article 50, the formal two-year process for exiting the EU, after the bill’s royal assent, with reports previously suggesting she would do so this week.
(8) Before the bill had even reached royal assent, rumours began to circulate that new legislation was in the pipeline that would academise every school in England by 2020.
(9) November 2013 After a final vote expected in October 2013, the Queen is expected to give royal assent to the referendum bill.
(10) He added: "The constitution requires that the president must assent to and sign the bill referred to him or her by the national assembly.
(11) If Greening gives the go-ahead, construction of the London-to-Birmingham route will be authorised in a parliamentary bill that would receive royal assent in 2015, with building expected to begin the following year.
(12) If the family still refuses assenting to therapy after having been confronted with the severe consequences of this disease, the therapist has to decide by himself whether he initiates inpatient treatment even against the patient's will - so far as his life is in danger.
(13) The police reform and social responsibility bill received royal assent a couple of weeks ago, meaning she is now able to visit the UK, he said.
(14) The UK was set to make history last night when the climate change bill received royal assent and brought into law the world's first legally binding targets for a nation to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
(15) Along these lines, Beck describes Fury as a “a big socialist”, probably to get his goat, but Fury simply nods his assent.
(16) We have disclosed everyone who has donated from the time of royal assent in accord with our commitment.
(17) He advised the Queen to create an annual Queen’s medal for music, to which she assented.
(18) Many people in the Catholic third of the population had never given their assent to its existence.
(19) If King, an apostle of non-violence and advocate for the poorest of the poor, were alive today, what would he make of President Obama's careless-with-life drone assassinations, his bullying of journalists and whistleblowers, his assent to slashing Social Security via his Scrooge-like "deficit commission"?
(20) "It's far better for us to be in a process where we are both looking for change, and require mutual assent, than for us to agree the situation for the other EU countries, and then ask them to agree for changes for the UK.
Stipulate
Definition:
(a.) Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.
(v. i.) To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the controlled wound care group, only three ulcers in three patients achieved complete healing; the remaining 24 ulcers in 20 patients failed to achieve even 50% healing in the stipulated 3-month period.
(2) Under the stipulation, cultivators must grow the drug indoors in a secure facility.
(3) An increase amount of proinsulin-like component in the blood serum stipulates possibly a more prolonged period of starvation before the occurrence of hypoglycemia, and a less pronounced picture of hypoglycemia in such patients in comparison with the patients whose tumours were capable of splitting HA similarly to the normal islands of Langerhans.
(4) Despite the stipulation, though, only 55% of trust-funded research papers are open access.
(5) Significantly, the one thing that is making him worry is the Globe's stipulation that no English should be used – something that takes little account of how in India language itself has become globalised, along with so much else.
(6) The attendant reflux gastritis is stipulated by reflux of the intestinal contents into the gastric lumen.
(7) Comparisons with the previous results of the author obtained in other mammal orders, demonstrated quantative changebility--plasticity of corresponding truncal auditory, optical and vesitbular formations in response to ecologically stipulated changes of leading afferentation in different mammals.
(8) The main one being that governments actually stick to their targets which they stipulated in terms of implementing policy to move towards a two degree limit in global warming by 2050,” said Wilkins.
(9) (2) The tendency to seclude on admission suggests failure to follow the legal stipulation that less restrictive measures be employed first.
(10) The procedure to be adopted by the second veterinary-surgeon inspector, however, has not been stipulated.
(11) This phenomenon is probably stipulated by the increase of the transcription activity and formation of 45-pre rRNA, life of RNA.
(12) We have earlier proposed a molecular mechanism for the translocation of hydrophilic proteins across membranes that accounts for the experimental facts and meets the restrictions that we stipulate for such a mechanism.
(13) In the theory of psychopathology (e.g., implicit in DSM-III), general descriptors of the person (i.e., demographic and cultural) play a comparatively minor role in the stipulation of the manifestations of psychiatric illness.
(14) The current rules governing eurozone bailouts stipulate that a government has to request help and that the money may only be channelled via governments – increasing the national debt burden.
(15) The Law stipulates that each manager of an establishment with 50 or more workers is requested to appoint an OHP from among qualified physicians.
(16) In the UK, the law stipulates that people should use only "reasonable force" as appropriate to the situation, and to prevent a dangerous situation from escalating.
(17) A rental contract can stipulate that tenants ask a landlord before switching energy supplier, but it can't refuse permission to switch.
(18) The curative effects were up to the standards stipulated by the National Federation of Disabled Persons.
(19) Let us stipulate at the start that whether or not to build the pipeline is a decision with profound physical consequences.
(20) Buchanan said reserve margins for generation capacity were set to fall from 14% to just 5% within three years, though he played down the threat of power cuts to consumers: households are less likely to be affected by capacity shortages than energy-intensive businesses, many of which have contracts that stipulate their supply can be cut at times of peak demand to free up generating capacity elsewhere.