Word: consent
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...best solution may be a two-tier system: the republics would raise territorial defense units that would be subject to Moscow's authority only in a crisis and only with the consent of the republics' parliaments, while the confederation would form an army of its own composed of decently paid volunteers from all over. Only that body would have weapons of mass destruction. That way, when the process of transformation now under way is complete, we can be assured that there will still be only one nuclear power on the land mass that is today the U.S.S.R...
...school must first secure the consent of a majority of its students' parents. In the two years since Thatcher's plan went into effect, 102 schools have cut their ties; 11 are on the verge of final action; 88 more await government approval. They are the first patches in a quilt of autonomous schools -- which are tax supported and tuition free but in effect can operate as if they were privately run -- that the country's Conservative government hopes will blanket the country...
...have an opinion on the consent, no, but I think there was some sort of battery, yeah. She obtained a chest contusion in some way," Prostko said...
...enforcing a right means interpreting it, and exclusive power to interpret a concept as vague as natural law should not be given to the unelected branch of government. The job of protecting our nonconstitutional rights belongs to those who most directly "deriv((e)) their just powers from the consent of the governed," as the Declaration has it: elected officials...
...delicate topic of teenage sex, the document advises youngsters to make decisions on the basis of "mutuality," "consent" and "maturity." Marilyn Washburn, a clergywoman-physician and dissenting member of the sex panel, considers it "tragic" that the report never tells teens that "there is no perfect means of birth control and that condoms do not prevent sexually transmitted diseases...