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Example sentences for "consent"

Lexicographically close words:
conseils; consell; consensu; consensual; consensus; consentaneous; consente; consented; consentement; consenteth
  1. Which decrees are called statutes, meaning by that name, that the same should stand firme and stable, and not be repealed without the consent of an other parlement, and that vpon good and great consideration.

  2. That no new chappels should be builded without consent of the bishop.

  3. For nothing is ratified there, except it be agreed vpon by the consent of the more part of both those houses.

  4. Howbeit whether she were professed, or veiled onelie, loth she was to consent at the first (as partlie ye haue heard) but after that she was coupled with the king in mariage, she prooued a right obedient wife.

  5. I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.

  6. I could not consent to the death of any human being; but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit to remain in the society of men.

  7. And although I could not consent to go and hear that little conceited fellow deliver sentences out of a pulpit, I recollected what he had said of M.

  8. Marriage was performed by cohabitation with the consent of the relations.

  9. He was chosen by the appointment of the king, and consent of the pope.

  10. As for this kings victories in France, the same were such as might seeme incredible, if the consent of all writers in that age confirmed not the same.

  11. Most noble king, there is no cause wherefore your grace should be pensiue, though God this day did not consent to follow your will.

  12. Lord Milborough's consent flew out readily enough when he was in the rush of his own triumph, and might have found wife and sister difficult to harmonise.

  13. He will not even consent to stay on with us, though Anne asked him herself.

  14. However, as I said, I couldn't consent to prevent a man from saying what he wished at this stage of his illness.

  15. The equivalent of a sixpence was all he would at last consent to receive.

  16. Edward asked if his father would not consent now to his going to sea.

  17. At last he found one captain willing to take him, provided he had the consent of his father.

  18. And do you think our friend Marie will consent to be carried off?

  19. She once said, concerning dogmas, that she could consent to see the ocean filtered to a thread of water, if it but remained pure.

  20. You led up to the case so gradually and gently, and then left it again, that by universal consent the facts themselves showed it was high time to resort to punitive measures.

  21. You have my full consent to do so, indeed it is more convenient than for me to write to Clodius myself, as he wanted.

  22. I must admit that the work did not suit the characters; for it was far too philosophical for them to have ever dreamt of such things.

  23. How long it is since I have had anything to write to you!

  24. We will consent that the public lands shall be appropriated to this object; or that the general government shall be clothed with power to apply a portion of revenue to it.

  25. The insolvent law of New York, for example, authorizes the discharge of a debtor on the consent of two thirds of his creditors.

  26. I believe Congress has the power to establish the branches without, as well as with, the consent of the States.

  27. How is it to be done without the consent of the previous government?

  28. And its authors further say, that, appealing with confidence to the Constitution itself, to justify their opinions, they cannot consent to try their accuracy by the courts of justice.

  29. But I do agree that it is founded on consent or agreement, or on compact, if the gentleman prefers that word, and means no more by it than voluntary consent or agreement.

  30. Governments cannot go to war now, either with or against the consent of their own subjects or people, without the reprobation of other states, unless for grounds and reasons justifying them in the general judgment of mankind.

  31. I have said that I shall consent to no extension of the area of slavery upon this continent, nor to any increase of slave representation in the other house of Congress.

  32. Consent was ultimately only obtained by the agreement, that a large portion of the expense should be borne by the institution.

  33. Many phenomena connected with uterine irritation, both in the unimpregnated state and during pregnancy, prove the intimate nature of the consent existing between the brain and uterus.

  34. I shall not consent to your writing for any paper, unless the proprietors will give you the full value of your articles--what they are really worth to them.

  35. Union she desired, provided she would only consent to the union.

  36. Eagle-head would not consent to a halt for the sake of killing a few isolated buffaloes we perceived in the distance.

  37. Gain time; tell him that his ward is ill; that you have succeeded in gaining her consent to the projected marriage, but, on the condition that it be deferred for eight and forty hours.

  38. Civilization in its continuous onward march destroys the great animals, and drives back the redskin and even the hunter, unless he consent to modify his fashion of living.

  39. What would you require, madam," he continued, "in order to consent to give up this unhappy young lady to me?

  40. Consent to accept my niece from my hand, and marry her at once in this chapel.

  41. Did the legislature intend to forbid a representation without the author's consent by children in a nursery before their parents, or by grown-up persons in a drawing-room?

  42. But it has been held that a man is not liable for forfeitures or penalties on account of acts done without his knowledge or consent by his servants or agents in his employment.

  43. This section prohibits the reproduction of any book in which there is subsisting copyright without the consent in writing of the proprietor thereof.

  44. Although the sender has a right of property in the literary matter in the letters, the receiver may without his consent destroy the letters and so destroy the writer's chance of obtaining benefit from them.

  45. There shall not be imported into or sold in without the consent in writing of the owner of the copyright-- Copies printed outside the British dominions.

  46. Importing without the consent of the proprietor a foreign copy or copies,[427] i.

  47. It was then exhibited with the proprietor's consent in Dublin for the purpose of obtaining contributors to a proposed engraving, and while so exhibited the defendant, without consent, copied it and produced his stereoscopic photographs.

  48. An assignee may make the entry on the register himself without the concurrence or consent of his assignor.

  49. He loves his daughter too tenderly to refuse his consent to a union on which her happiness depends.

  50. Thomas Garrett, with the consent of the judge, then hired a carriage to take the woman and four children over to Wilmington, Samuel and the two older boys walked, so they all escaped from the man-hunters.

  51. There he could not consent to stay and starve to death.

  52. But, as strong as it was, he felt that he could not consent to remain in slavery any longer.

  53. In the trying circumstances in which William found himself, dark as everything looked, he could not consent to return to his master, as he felt persuaded, that if he did, there would be no rest on earth for him.

  54. My father was at that time, in successful business in Boston, but with his views of the importance of training a woman to usefulness, he and my mother gave their consent to another year being devoted to that institution.

  55. They had better get the consent of the Underground Rail Road before they passed such a thing.

  56. Five times he had proposed to buy himself, but failed to get the consent of his "master," who was a merchant, C.

  57. Being spirited, Maria could not consent to suffer on as a slave in this manner.

  58. If the liberation of the slave demanded it, I could consent to part with a portion of the blood from my own veins if that would do him any good.

  59. And the father's consent was taken as a thing for granted.

  60. His darling's entreaties availed in so far that the original No was rescinded, but just as little was he to be moved to give his consent for a speedy betrothal.

  61. He knew that the difference of age between himself and his betrothed would be an objection hard for Dernburg to overcome, that his consent would neither be easily nor quickly obtained, but this did not frighten him.

  62. I cannot get my own consent to do so--never!

  63. There might be one expedient, perhaps, but you will not consent to it--suppose we made the attempt to turn on the water from the Radefeld aqueduct.

  64. Oscar von Wildenrod had, of course, remained at Odensburg; and although there could be no talk now of a public betrothal, yet the father had given his consent in due form.

  65. You best know what has hitherto kept him aloof from Eckardstein: your consent would immediately determine him to resign his commission in the army, and henceforth devote himself to the care of his estates.

  66. With the right of an honest man, who will not consent to see the daughter of Eberhard Dernburg and his Odensburg become the spoil of a villain.

  67. He has, it is true, denied my petition to have our engagement publicly announced to-day, it was hard enough to wrest a consent from him on any terms.

  68. Mott answered that the terms were unusual, unprecedented, and barbarous, and that he could not consent to them.

  69. I answered that under no circumstances would I ever consent to speak to him; that he had done me injuries which rendered any intercourse with him impossible; that the world was wide enough for us both, and he must go his own way.

  70. I told Mr. Fairfax that the terms proposed by his principal were unusual and inconsistent with the "code," and that I could not consent to them or countenance a conflict so unprecedented and barbarous.

  71. Even now, though much improved, I write in great pain, but I cannot get my consent to delay it longer on any account.

  72. The case was tried before Judge Sullivan without a jury, by consent of the parties.

  73. It was by this assurance thus solemnly given that we won the reluctant consent of Mexico to part with California.

  74. I heartily grant my consent thereto, but will not give her leave to flay it all.

  75. Her excuse was that she did not consent thereto, but that it was done by the violence and impetuous force of the Friar Stiffly-stand-to't.

  76. Nor is this signification instituted by human imposition, but by the universal consent of the world received, which philosophers call Jus Gentium, the Law of Nations, or an uncontrollable right of force in all countries whatsoever.

  77. I freely consent never to mount a wife, so you but set me ashore and mount me on a horse, that I may go home.

  78. Which general consent is not without some argument and reason in nature, the which every man may by himself very suddenly comprehend, without the instruction of any--and this we call the law of nature.

  79. For, as you have very well said, there is no place in the world where, legally, a licence is granted to the children to marry without the advice and consent of their parents and kindred.

  80. Rather than consent to this, the Duke of Cumberland, who has inherited much of the obstinacy for which his great-grandfather, King George III.

  81. Moreover, I must have annually half the pay of Mercader; and you must consent to dub me knight with your royal hand.

  82. What that decision will be, is only known on high; but as many prelates of France will of course sit in that council, it is not likely that they will consent to reverse their own judgment.

  83. Julian's consent and promise, for gold and rich furniture.

  84. Now, the letter was addressed to a friend in New York, asking him to look after my trunk, which had been taken away without my consent by the captain of the vessel in which I was arrested.

  85. If you consent to send me for my life to a penitentiary you will not make the slightest impression on me.

  86. I would consent to be the famine-prey Of some fierce pard, if ere the night were flown I could subdue thy spirit to my sway.

  87. Lineaweaver's consent to break into his vacation and go back with her.

  88. But she could not say that to her aunt; the latter was afraid of airplanes, and had only grudgingly given her consent that Linda go up in one.


  89. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abide; accede; accept; acceptance; accession; acclaim; acclamation; accord; accordance; acquiesce; acquiescence; admission; admit; affirmation; affirmative; agree; agreement; alacrity; allow; allowance; applaud; approbation; approval; approve; ardor; assent; authorization; aye; blessing; buy; charter; cheer; chorus; clearance; collaborate; compliance; comply; concert; concord; concordance; concur; concurrence; condescend; confirm; connivance; consensus; consent; cooperate; deference; deign; dispensation; dispense; eagerness; endorse; endorsement; enthusiasm; goodwill; grant; hail; harmony; homage; incline; indorse; lean; leave; let; liberty; license; nod; nonresistance; obedience; obeisance; obey; passivity; patent; permission; permit; pliability; privilege; promise; promptness; ratification; ratify; readiness; receive; release; relent; resign; resignation; sanction; soften; subjection; submission; submit; subscribe; succumb; sufferance; support; swallow; take; ticket; unanimity; understanding; unison; vouchsafe; waiver; welcome; willingness; yes; yield; yielding; zeal