consent Examples

[kənˈsɛnt]

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Examples of consent in a Sentence

Examples of consent
1. It is easy to see that empire obtained by force is unrepublican and offensive to that first principle of our Union according to which all just government stands only on the consent of the governed.
2. What struck me about the occasion was the quiet though cheerful tone of the gathering, the restraint, noticeable also in the very few speeches. Chemistry was taboo, by common consent — no " shop " allowed.
3. the age of consent; the age of discretion ‎
4. 1879, De Lesseps, the engineer, has been visiting the Boy of Tunis, and trying to get his consent to the scheme for piercing tho isthmus of Zaber, and opening up communication with the interior of the Dark Continent by water.
5. The United States cannot acquire jurisdiction tortiously or by disseisin of the state, or by occupancy with merely the tacit consent of the state.
6. To which folkmote they all with one consent agreed to travel. — Spenser.
7. The man was unconscious, but the paramedics had his implied consent to treat him.
8. Traveling by air gives security officials implied consent to search your bags.
Examples of consented
1. I decided to make my permanent residence in the East, and my wife and daughters whose affections were so deeply inwound with the Midland, loyally consented to follow, although it was a sad surrender for them.
2. After reflecting a little bit, I've consented.
3. When the patient was consented to enter the study and registered, a telephone call was made to research assistant
4. A canny business strategist who tends to express himself tersely — even more so now that his voice has been hoarsened by several strokes — he has rarely consented to interviews.
Examples of consenting
1. The law prohibits payment for sex, even between consenting adults.
2. Still, it is not clear how far socialists ought to go in "restricting capitalist acts between consenting adults," since doing so seems to impinge, inadmissibly, on individuals' freedoms.