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...bill's Republican backers have pointed to several recent cases of abuse. For example, the highly publicized case of Dr. Robert Weirtzel, a Utah man who was convicted earlier this month for administering overdoses of morphine without familial consent which resulted in the deaths of five patients with senile dementia. But although steps need to be taken to prevent these horror stories from happening in the future, this bill would do much more harm than good...
...While the strongman has the backing of the military and the police, deploying them against half of the population would be untenable - it's a conscript army, after all, and the reason Milosevic actually bothers to hold elections at all is that he requires some measure of popular consent to rule. He may therefore opt for a runoff election, preferring to suppress some of his opponent's vote tally rather than inflate his own so that neither man registers more than 49 percent. Milosevic, also, is far from lacking in the requisite cynicism required to simply use opposition charges...
...participant refused to consent to the search, officers would often refuse to let them enter...
...brink of catastrophe. What would people think of me if I abandoned them all at this stage?" By this point in the novel, normal narrative logic no longer applies; after telling Sarah why he can't go with her, Banks agrees to do so. And that consent proves meaningless too. Ishiguro is a master at evoking unsettling moods, but When We Were Orphans comes to seem more tantalizing than fulfilling, a whodunit with no real...
According to Avery, the Ad Board defines rape more broadly than the state, viewing someone who is intoxicated or under the influence of drugs as unable to give consent...