Word: consent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...handed a box of pills and a diaphragm with their notebooks and Coop card when they come to college." Date rape, like available birth control, is a "PC" threat to this writer's oh-so-comfortable picture of the world. He thus suggests that birth control implies continuous consent to all future sexual activity, negating the possibility of date rape...
...allies. They were being pulled into the very "bazaar bargaining," as one British official phrased it, that they had sworn to avoid. Worse, they were being maneuvered into a box. Had negotiations stayed on the course they were taking, the U.S. and friends would have had to either consent to a Soviet rescue of Saddam from certain defeat, and all too likely his resuscitation as an aggressive menace to Middle East and world peace, or risk being called warmongers...
Ramos responded by writing letters of apology to Delaney Smith and the Yale coach in which he expressed his regrets and indicated that he acted on his own behalf and without the consent of the Harvard athletic program...
...director, he retired to Hawaii in the '50s after making a million with a chain of successful dance studios on the mainland. But the show-biz bug was still with him. When he viewed a lackluster show at a Honolulu nightclub in 1958, he got the owner's consent to work his magic and turned it into a winning act. To give it that extra bounce, Cione had his dancers go topless. It shocked the island like nothing else since the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Audiences swarmed into the club, and Cione was given half the operation as a reward...
...have vowed not to take part in the scheduled March 17 referendum, while Latvia was leaning toward boycotting it. But Gorbachev's message also carried the kind of rally-round- the-flag overtones sounded by resurgent Communist hard-liners. Should he fail to re-create the Union with popular consent, he will be pressed by the reactionaries to resort to force -- or move aside...