I do not want it to be said that we could not answer his arguments, or that we assented to them.
After consideration, the promoters assented to the modifications being made.
I do not say they assented; they were consulted, as were the coal trade.
In the compromise which was reached the parties assented to the second vote being given in respect of the occupation of business premises.
I thought he assented to the suggestion that the words should be left out because they were left out in the corresponding paragraph above.
What evidence is there that the transferee has assented to the obligation he is undertaking to pay calls in the future?
When that approach was then distorted by the exercise of market powers by certain sections of the industry, he tamely assented to it.
In each case, the ends pursued provide the only context within which the prescriptive force of the statement can be understood, and either assented to or repudiated.
