Sentence examples for consent thus from inspiring English sources

Consent thus alters the structure of rights and obligations between two or more parties.

One, surrogate consent is obtained for patients who are capable of providing consent, thus depriving such patients their autonomy rights to choose for themselves.

However, they may also limit wage adjustments; Holden (2004) argues that unionisation and firing costs increase workers' bargaining power when contracts can only be renegotiated by mutual consent, thus increasing downward nominal wage rigidity.

Perhaps the toughest point for OLC to counter was that, during two pro forma sessions -- one last summer and one this winter -- the Senate actually did pass legislation by unanimous consent, thus seeming to be "in business".

In 1992 it was not yet customary to ask for a written consent, thus only oral informed consent exists for that survey.

Thereafter, following the first version of the Declaration of Helsinki, other relevant declarations on research ethics have confirmed the acceptability of surrogate or proxy consent thus sanctioning the ethical acceptability of participation of incompetent adults in research, provided that more protections be offered to these subjects.

While some state statutes are now written this way, they often build physical force into the definition of non-consent; thus in practice they function very much like the dual requirement of force and non-consent (Anderson 2005a, 630).

In short, if a man does not engage in communicative sexuality, then he does not really know whether his partner is consenting; thus, if he nonetheless believes that she is consenting, then that belief is unreasonable.

Robins frames his argument in terms of a dilemma: either the principle of fairness is sufficiently strong to generate promissory obligations, in which case it is a principle of tacit consent, and thus the appeal is circular, or the principle of fairness is weak enough to avoid circularity, and thus too weak to ground promissory obligations.

In 1975, Gov. Hugh L. Carey signed the consent decree, thus committing the state to establish noninstitutional homes for people with developmental disabilities.

The attempt to legitimize political authority via consent is thus, at best, wishful thinking (Wellman 1996).