Of course I assented to the proposition.

The domestic harmony of the nation requires that before the United States assumes treaty obligations or makes war such policy shall represent the largely preponderating sentiment of its people, and nothing could more effectually secure this end than to require the President, before making a treaty, to secure the assent of two-thirds of the Senate and a majority of both Houses of Congress before making war.

" "Exactly," Beaumaroy assented with an appearance of eagerness.

It was hardly likely Mrs. Foster would express her assent in precisely that way; but Frank Harley promptly added, "I think I can promise five.

I conceive, therefore, that the Irish Parliament in 1789 acted more constitutionally in acknowledging the right of the next heir, in scouting the fiction of a commission or royal assent from the insane sovereign, and in addressing the Prince of Wales to take on himself the government as Regent.

On Oct. 30th I wrote to ask for leave to give a course of lectures at Cambridge in case that my successor at Cambridge should find difficulty in doing it in the first year: and to this Lord Auckland assented on Oct. 31st.

" "Oh, yescertainlyI rememberto be sure," exclaims the Judge, in great haste; alarmed into speedy assent by the construction which he perceives would be put upon a denial.

the interference of any foreign nation in acts of parliament a denial of the independence of the kingdom, and ordered[b] the four bills to be laid before the king for his assent without further delay.

Honoured by the Queen with a command to attend her at Windsor, he was asked by her Majesty to return to the Crimea; and the veteran assented at once, declaring he would serve under a corporal if she wished it.

His Imperial Highness was immediately obliged to give a formal assent before his court.

[101] "When these sounds are openly pronounced, they produce the familiar assent ay: which, by the old English dramatic writers, was often expressed by I."Walker.

To this arrangement it would appear that Honora yielded a more implicit assent than her lover.

Mark assented as to the food, but was of opinion a thunder shower was about to pass over the reef.

They cannot move our assent under that or any other title whatsoever.

Are there not many stars still beyond our horizonlights that are known only to the dwellers in the far south-land, among the spice-trees of Punt and the gold mines of Ophir?" There was a murmur of assent among the listeners.

He hesitates; he evades; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies.

The only process by which the fee can be alienated is a fine to which both husband and wife are parties and to which she gives her assent after a separate examination.

The difficulty of transforming that nominal assent into a reality is enormous in such a community as ours.