Sentence examples similar to winning consent from inspiring English sources

Stroud District Council unanimously refused the housing application from the Cheshire-based greenfield specialists Gladman: a land developer "obsessed with winning consents", according to its website.

Still, it took the intervention of President Obama with Turkey to win consent for Mr. Rasmussen's appointment.

Before, the government only had to try to win consent from the budget committee before extending credit guarantees.

The Justice Department itself pressed for court supervision in three states and two territories -- examples that helped attorneys for inmates win consent decrees in other states.

In 2003 Uruguay won consent from its bondholders to extend its debt maturities by five years, reducing the net present value of its debt by 13%.

The wind industry said if a bar on onshore windfarm subsidies was lifted it would allow the construction of 794 projects which have won consent through the planning system and are ready to build.

The United States representative to the United Nations, Richard C. Holbrooke, said yesterday that "it's going to be tough" to win consent from the organization to reduce Washington's share of the United Nations' regular budget, a major condition Congress has dictated in exchange for paying nearly $1 billion in American debt to the organization.

But Beijing would have to win consent rights to sell derived reactor designs abroad.

This April New Delhi won consent rights from Washington to reprocess U.S.-origin spent fuel at two facilities.

Democrats sued, winning a consent decree in which Republicans pledged not to repeat the tactics.

Republicans have had more success in winning Senate consent for big treaties -- Richard M. Nixon with Salt I and the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaties, Ronald Reagan with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, George H. W. Bush with the first Start treaty, and his son George W. Bush with the Treaty of Moscow, an arms reduction agreement.