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Unless clear limits are introduced against "mistaken belief" in consent, victims' efforts may be "rendered futile", she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

In England, Wales and Scotland, if you are under the age of 16 you need the consent, external of everyone with parental responsibility for you.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

And if it can’t pass by unanimous consent, we’re skeptical the Senate would spend valuable floor time trying to pass it on its own.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026

California is an all-party consent state, meaning it requires all the people in a private conversation to agree to be recorded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

He drew up a petition, had it signed by a hundred students, and demanded an all-school training workshop on consent.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

These consents, after all, are legal agreements that terminate a biological parent’s legal claim to a child and vest those rights in non-biological parents.

From Slate ● May 13, 2026

By claiming that “it is unconstitutional for biological parents to transfer their parental rights,” Jay told me, Uthmeier’s argument “sweeps in” adoption consents, too.

From Slate ● May 13, 2026

In a recent update, the company has secured five transmission planning decisions since November, and will continue to focus on securing remaining consents for its projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

And he can remain on our soil only when the sovereign — in the U.S., that’s “We the People” — consents to it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

He consents without a murmur, all join in a joyful chorus, and the curtain falls upon the lovers kneeling to receive Don Pedro’s blessing in attitudes of the most romantic grace.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

They wrote For the People who consented to be governed by it, which includes you.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

When the detective asked her to take a polygraph, she consented.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

Gaytan claimed he took no part in the robbery, but after he consented to a search of his phone, Simonyan said she found text messages sent to one of the alleged gunmen, Eduardo “Active” Lopez.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

The child’s hospital had begun using AI to record visits—and her husband had unknowingly consented.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

“Her Magnificence the Queen has consented to compensate each of you for the animals you have lost,” he told them in the Ghiscari tongue.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

If a journalist wants an on-the-record interview with someone in Objection’s orbit, they are asked to sign an agreement consenting in advance to the tribunal’s jurisdiction.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

“If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here,” the U.S. senator said during a congressional hearing.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026

But there are things you need to consider before consenting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

The bill would allow nonrelatives to make decisions such as enrolling a child in school and consenting to some medical care.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

We helped the sick to their feet, and to them donated our own bedrolls, consenting to go without blankets for one night.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson