Sentence examples for social consent from inspiring English sources

Only governments can obtain social consent for projects.

At the moment, she has returned to a massive, unfinished book about "warfare and social consent".

The royal commission ordered by Weatherill into a potential nuclear waste industry had found social consent and political bipartisanship were "essential" if SA was to reap a potential $100bn profit from taking the world's high-level waste.

As we have seen, the Lockean critique of this sort of approach was always that urgency of material need left no time for social consent.

It assumes their lesser worth and justification of violence through social consent.

The evaluation of a health service is intimately linked to the definition and the social consent and implies in values and ideologies.

It added: "To contribute fully to prosperity, banks and markets require a social licence – the consent of society to operate and innovate.

Excluded social forces, whose consent has not been won, whose interests have not been taken into account, form the basis of counter-movements, resistance, alternative strategies and visions … and the struggle over a hegemonic system starts anew.

Thus, Grotius and Hobbes stand together at the head of that "school of natural law" that, in accordance with the tendencies of the Enlightenment, tried to construct a whole edifice of law by rational deduction from a hypothetical "state of nature" and a "social contract" of consent between rulers and subjects.

James Madison — until now the father of the Constitution — a theorist of rights, the social contract and consent of the governed, is to cede his place to a man who when confronted with the choice between liberal democracy, Communism and Nazism, chose the last.

First, Socrates maintains that his long residence in Athens shows that he has entered into an agreement with its laws and committed himself to obey them — an argument that anticipates the social contract or consent theory of political obligation.