Despite our best efforts to the contrary, they fail and fall and do things we'd never consent to.
Tax is a huge inconvenience, but if nobody paid it because they never "consented" to being taxed, the NHS would end up completely privatised and we'd all have to start living like Americans.
And he said he had never consented to them moving to England to live.
But Henrietta Lacks, who was poor, black and uneducated, never consented to her cells' being studied.
The American people never consented to the National Security Agency's (NSA) effort to "collect it all" by tracking and inspecting every digital footprint we leave behind.
Anthony Pirro, 45, has never consented to an interview, and his lawyer, Roger L. Stavis, declined to comment on the case.
"My parents would have never consented to allow me to join the Vienna Choir Boys," he said.
But the clerk, Cathy McBroom, said in a statement that she was sexually harassed and never consented to the advances.
Ms. Revels's argument, presented by Mr. Nakell, is that she never consented to the photographs taken by her ex-boyfriend and therefore did not violate the morality clauses of her Miss America contract.
He told me of a meeting between several chief editors of daily newspapers and Putin earlier in the year, in the Kremlin: "I asked him why he never consented to be interviewed for Sevodnya or on NTV.
But Kawara maintained a public profile that was not only low to the end of his life, he almost never consented to being interviewed or photographed but invisible, apart from sporadic appearances at group shows.
