Opponents said such a written promise was worthless, because while the F.T.C. could punish Google for violating its word, the punishment would be to take the next step and secure a consent decree after all.
Speaking in defence of Islington and Camden's case to refuse permission for the scheme at the planning hearing at City Hall, Jones stated: "The applicant [Royal Mail] has sought from day one to secure a consent which serves to protect the applicant's right to an excessive land value, irrespective of the implications this has for delivering affordable housing".
On Monday Joanna Lumley, the actor who came up with the idea of the bridge, said in an interview that the Garden Bridge Trust, on whose board she sits, was struggling to secure a vital consent needed before construction can begin.
Who could have foreseen that radio's great fortunes would be had through creating a blanket license, securing a Congressional consent decree, chartering a collecting society and inventing a new form of statistical mathematics to fund it?
Objectives of the interview were explained to the study participants and written consents secured; a thumb-print was taken in case of illiteracy.
Although Prince Friso was a member of the Dutch royal family, he had relinquished his membership in the Dutch royal house in 2004 when he married without having secured an act of consent.
Securing an informed consent with research translated into these words brought a new meaning to the word, potentially complicating the consent process as well as our assessment of it through our own interviewing.
Much of America's own nation-building was done with little regard for rights and without having to secure a majority's consent.
Pregnant women presenting themselves at PHCs/UHPs in the study area (selected as described previously) are approached to secure an initial oral consent to respond to a screening questionnaire for assessing eligibility.
Shiffrin claims that we have serious qualms about harming someone without their consent to secure a pure benefit for them, even when we can be sure that they would regard the pure benefit as far outweighing the harm (see also Steinbock and McClamrock 1994).
