Sentence examples for power of consent from inspiring English sources

In an old formula, "domination" gives way to "hegemony" — brute force gives way to the deeper power of consent.

It is this organisation that is the key to the prince's power of consent and ultimately veto.

The government is facing growing pressure to reveal how the Prince of Wales has used his power of consent over draft legislation after it emerged ministers asked him to approve planning and construction laws because they might directly affect the private £700m property empire that provides his annual income.

A person's domain—"the physical, emotional, psychological, and intellectual space it lives in" (338)—defines the range of matters over which the person has rightful power of consent.

But, as we saw in §1, modern contract theories are concerned with appeals to our reason, not our self-binding power of consent.

Because a person's body is at the very center of her domain and is the locus of the properties and capacities that make her a person, the intentional invasion of the body is an especially egregious attack: "to presume to wield an effective power of consent over the personal properties and/or the body of [a] creature … is ipso facto to deny that there is a person there at all" (340).

MPs and peers have been calling for greater transparency over the application of the royal powers of consent, but Smith this week told parliament the government would not publish a full account of which bills have been subject to royal consent because it would be too expensive.

Whilst that statement may be literally correct the High Court of Australia, in explaining why sterilization does not come within, " the ordinary scope of parental power to consent to medical treatment", held on page 237 that, " As a starting point, sterilisation requires invasive, irreversible and major surgery.

"In surveys, focus groups, and interviews, many would-be research contributors say they want the power to consent to research uses of their samples".

"Some argue we are giving up our power of advice and consent," said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the independent from Connecticut and a chief author of the bill.

The proposal to end Senate review of about 200 executive branch positions would be the most serious effort in recent years to pare the chamber's constitutional power of advice and consent.