Richard's rule, based on fear rather than consent, became increasingly tyrannical.
Patients or prisoners [may] "acquiesce rather than consent", believing it is the only way to avoid indefinite imprisonment.
She would have preferred to grant administrative reforms rather than consent that her daughter should become a constitutional monarch.
That year, he wrote an essay about a woman who had slit her throat rather than consent to an arranged marriage.
Euthymius was named patriarch by Leo in 907, after Nicholas resigned rather than consent to the judgment of the four patriarchs.
But your government rejected a Senate report calling for Gonski to be implemented, arguing that the report had "created fissures rather than consent and agreement" and insisting "teacher quality" and "school autonomy" were much more important than money (as if these were either/or propositions).
Rather informed consent should be recognized as an effort to respect participant's decisional authority.
It has taken the experts the best part of 25 years to decide that the benefits of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test for those with a "low-risk" prostate cancer are so equivocal, the consequences of treatment so adverse, that patients are much better advised to "wait and see" rather than consent to an operation.
Rather than consent to the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, which ordered an end to segregation in public schools, Southern governors and legislatures declared that they would refuse to implement the law and, if necessary, close schools.
Although these results suggest that access advantages may have played a role in early response, it does not explain why certain occupational groups chose refusal rather than consent.
