Sentence examples for defining consent from inspiring English sources

The Federal Communications Commission has been working on a draft of a stricter rule defining consent.

One sees why some businesses would like to keep the bar defining consent as low as possible.

These UK provisions do not comply with EU rules defining consent as 'freely given, specific and informed indication of a person's wishes'," it added.

For this reason, the wording "freely given" is important when defining consent.

Defining consent, the commission says "...this question ultimately has to be answered by a potential host jurisdiction, using whatever means and timing it sees fit".

Overwhelmingly, the attendees agreed that defining consent as: "a freely given and mutually wanted enthusiastic agreement between partners of sound mind and legal age" is the way sexual activity should occur between partners.

With force absent from rape definitions, there has been increasing pressure on how to define consent.

Some college campuses have gone even further and defined consent as not only positive but "enthusiastic" agreement to have sex.

Clearly defines "consent" as a person consents if she/he agrees by choice and has the freedom and capacity to make that choice.

There was another, quieter, feminist win in the report as well: a "Checklist for Campus Sexual Misconduct Policies" defines consent as a "voluntary agreement" and makes clear that "silence or absence of resistance does not imply consent".

The American Law Institute is currently debating draft model penal-code sexual-assault provisions (I am an adviser on this project), which define consent as a positive, freely given agreement to engage in a specific act of sexual penetration or sexual contact.