Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Power Authority must first obtain consent from the Federal Government and Canada to dam the international rapids. Then it must negotiate marketing contracts with private companies, particularly Niagara Hudson Power Corp., for the distribution of its power. These contracts, of great importance in the whole scheme, constitute the State's new method of rate regulation whereby the benefits of public production may be passed along to the consumer. If reasonable contracts for the control of prices cannot be made, the Power Authority must return to the Legislature for additional permission to go into the power transmission and distribution business...
...independence of Austria is inalienable otherwise than with the consent of the said Council of the League of Nations.* Consequently Austria undertakes in the absence of the consent of the said Council to abstain from any act which might directly or indirectly or by any means whatever compromise her independence, particularly, and until her admission to membership in the League of Nations,* by participation in the affairs of another power...
...Lord Curzon's experience and qualifications at that time were infinitely greater than mine. I can never forget the generosity with which he treated me, his willing consent to serve under me; and never by word, by expression or by look did he show he would have had it otherwise...
...ever being cured, thus throwing the public's right to participate fully in Government open to question. 'With actual life outrunning politics and theories. Editor Lippmann has arrived at a state of mind where he believes, in effect, that a class of wholly "disinterested"' men should govern with the consent of the People, if not with their advice. What would save such a brainpower oligarchy from becoming tryannous would be public education and the Liberal Spirit...
...Yard which have been closed during the construction of the Wigglesworth Dormitories will be opened next Saturday, April 4, according to the superintendent in charge of the work. Outside work around the buildings will be finished and proper runways built by that time so that only inspection and consent by the University authorities will be necessary to permit opening the Yard entrances...