consent

Example Sentences

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Representation limits this tension by claiming that acts undertaken with the consent of the governed are really their own decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I didn’t. That was her plan. She knew that our Warsaw operation was being dismantled and insisted on supervising. I consented. She was always angling for assignments, and I figured this might scratch that itch.”

From Literature

Hill, member for Pinhoe and Mincinglake, was thrown out of Reform UK for publishing a letter about free school meals in the name of all Reform UK Devon councillors without their consent.

From BBC

The act allows for an identical bill that passes the Commons twice to become law, even without the Lords' consent.

From BBC

Now it is any act where there is no "informed, specific, anterior and revocable" consent.

From BBC