The question in the case is whether their acquiescence to the search amounted to consent under circumstances that a federal appeals court found, in overturning their convictions, to be inherently coercive.
We informed the students that completing the questionnaire amounted to consent to participate in the study, including an anonymized analysis of their answers.
But local politics, he continued, amounted to "the consent of the governed, which is the core of our democracy".
Officials here deny this amounts to tacit consent.
However, it has done nothing to stop them and many Pakistanis - including Imran Khan - believe this amounts to tacit consent.
Hobbes does this when he counts submission to a conqueror as consent, but Locke also runs this risk when he states, in §119 of the Second Treatise, that the "very being of anyone within the territories" of a government amounts to tacit consent.
A US military air strike against Islamists in Syria without President Assad's consent would amount to an "act of aggression", according to Russia's Foreign Ministry.
In an op-ed for USA Today last week, Sessions wrote that consent decrees could amount to "harmful federal intrusion" that could "cost more lives by handcuffing the police instead of the criminals".
Also: because teens are not old enough to give consent, doesn't it amount to parents playing with their teens' bodies, sending them into a potentially life-threatening situation for a shot at a more "balanced" face?
In this setting, every effort should be made to honor the patient's wishes, if any were expressed clearly, which amounts to obtaining explicit consent.
