consenting adj.
同意的
consenting[ adj ]
having given consent
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consenting adults
Consent \Con*sent"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Consented}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Consenting}.] [F. consentir, fr. L. consentire,
-sensum, to feel together, agree; con- + sentire to feel. See
{Sense}.]
1. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind;
to accord; to concur.
And Saul was consenting unto his death. --Acts.
viii. 1.
Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much
consenting with him in jugdment. --Fuller.
2. To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to
guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or
approval; to comply.
My poverty, but not my will, consents. --Shak.
And whispering ``I will ne'er consent,'' --
consented. --Byron.
Syn: To accede; yield; assent; comply; agree; allow; concede;
permit; admit; concur; acquiesce.
- Markets will become less price-efficient, hopes for corporate accountability and governance dashed, the honest majority worse off. And why should capitalist acts between consenting adults in private be banned in a free society?
- These are transactions between consenting adults.
- No. Leave."' For USX, consenting to the May 7 shareholder vote was a shrewd move, takeover experts said, largely because the steel-and-energy giant relinquished practically nothing while giving the appearance of responsiveness.
- Last week's ruling also may have the effect of more firmly entrenching a 1986 decision upholding a state law that made private, homosexual activity between consenting adults illegal.
- The judge ruled that Georgia's sodomy law cannot be applied to consenting married adults.
- "Surely it is no consolation to the one or two individuals who become infected after innocently consenting to medical care by an unhealthy doctor that they were part of a rare statistic," the judges wrote in their 27-page opinion.
- The Xiongs have been advised by a Hmong shaman, or spiritual leader, that consenting to corrective surgery would continue problems they believe stopped after Xiong promised the spirits that Kou would be left as he is.
- The suburb of Tukwila has achieved fame, or embarrassment, with a newspaper column that has made the town a euphemism for an act between two consenting adults.
- Although rarely used, 19th century Irish laws ban certain homosexual acts, even if carried out in private between consenting adults.
- We are talking about agreements between consenting adults, as the real Gladstonian Liberals pointed out at the time of the Factory Acts legislation.
- Weisman said advertisers should consider the "good-will" value of consenting to the proposal.
- In September, a state judge ruled that the law cannot be applied to consenting married adults.
- The Florida Supreme Court ruled 4-3 last year that travelers, in effect, are coerced into consenting to have their luggage searched when police come aboard and randomly choose passengers.
- Cannon settled the litigation by consenting to a court order barring future securities law violations, although it didn't admit any wrongdoing.
- "It's a disease of consenting adults.
- Justices William Brennan, John Stevens and Thurgood Marshall dissented, saying the First Amendment prohibits states from prosecuting magazine dealers for selling allegedly obscene material to consenting adults.