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On Monday, the office filed both a lawsuit against the company over the allegations and the consent decree that resolves them.

Oregon’s state election director, Steve Trout, said he has been harassed on the phone and social media by people wrongly accusing him of, among other things, changing voters’ party affiliations without consent.

The Cybersecurity Law, which entered into force in June of 2017, required that companies obtain consent from people to collect their personal information.

Such projects seek consent from participants and promise to keep the data confidential.

Aliens won’t ask to be taken to our leader, they’ll ask for a cheek swab and a consent form.

Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.

The same Pediatrics journal notes that 17 states have some form of exception to the standard parental consent requirement.

Doctors have long wrestled with the age of consent when it comes to mature adolescents.

Consent is manufactured—like, remember the Ebola crisis from a few weeks ago?

They had a corollary: “Each new level of sexual activity requires consent.”

I am therefore quite sure I shall be content to await his father's consent, should it not come these many years.

The woman he had felt so proudly would put Tony in his place—nodded consent!

All the banks in the city of New York without exception, and by common consent, stop specie payments.

It is therefore our duty, sir, to protect our principal, and we cannot consent to abate one jot or tittle of our rights.

Allcraft took care to obtain the consent of Bellamy to his arrangement.

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On this page you'll find 148 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to consent, such as: acquiescence, approval, assent, authorization, blessing, and compliance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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