Word: consented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot well afford to have children, marry and, with the aid of widespread birth-control knowledge, take care that they have no children. Then, if they do not get along with each other and wish to separate, let them be granted a divorce on grounds of mutual consent and take up single life again. If they do get along with each other and if they decide that they wish to have children, let them enter the regular Family Marriage state as it is at present constituted...
...assembly of the new Dail. There was always the chance that Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail deputies would try to enter without taking the oath-a move often threatened never attempted, and sure to lead to many a cracked Irish crown. Sober-minded Irishmen hoped that Mr. Cosgrave would consent to carry on, as before, with the readily obtainable support of the "neutral" parties...
...attained in the sordid business of making a living. The gifted man need no longer trouble his brain with the vulgar strife of ordinary mortals, he need not even incur the sin of wishing that a wealthy forebear be relieved from the pains of earthly existence. He need only consent to have his name spread abroad in the land on some article of common use and then enjoy the tribute he draws from an appreciative world. Only one difficulty yet remains, he must first go through the difficult, perhaps dangerous, process of becoming a popular hero...
...politics and public fashions of those days. The present book has a rather more restricted field than any of these, and yet is of them, for it treats of the days when New England was admittedly the cultural balance wheel of the nation, when her colleges were, by common consent, deemed the fittest heirs of old world learnedness and worthy, by virtue of this, to new world respect...
...constituted the point at issue. Dignified, fairminded, Chief Justice Taft took no part in the court's deliberations. But the Court upheld him, reversed the Kansas decision. It held that the pardoning power was part of the machinery of the law, that this machinery operates without regard to the consent of those affected. It held also that changing a death sentence to a life sentence was a legitimate part of the pardoning power, since a life sentence is commonly regarded as less severe than a death sentence, therefore, to some extent, a pardon...