consenting adults. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : He consented to the proposal. We asked her permission, and she consented. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : He gave his consent to the marriage. ,By common consent he was appointed official delegate. From Dictionary.com.
When will the idea of consenting adults ever find it's way through your thick skull. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
He had wrongly used that word; it sounded malicious; and to call consenting the same in fact as choosing was wilfully unjust. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
What is it that you do not comprehend about the idea of consenting adults? none / 0). From Wordnik.com. [The Young Turks] Reference
None of them appears to be "consenting" in the way that the Western idiom of the gaze reduced the female figure. From Wordnik.com. [LittleIndia.com Largest Circulated Indian Magazine In USA] Reference
Taxi Driver presented a pretty compelling picture of how seemingly sophisticated and "consenting" minors are preyed upon by adults. From Wordnik.com. [Rezo.net] Reference
'consenting' to the death of Stephen on the very same charges?. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference
'consenting' to something out of financial desperation / outright fear. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
As long as those people are consenting adults, who’s to say what kind of consenting adults they should be?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Musgrave: Gay Marriage ‘Is The Most Important Issue That We Face Today’] Reference
Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 52: Romans The Challoner Revision] Reference
General Grant consenting to the interview asked for by Lee through. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Whatever consenting adults do behind closed doors is their own affair. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: No Smoke Without Ire] Reference
Only 53 percent oppose homosexual relationships between consenting adults. From Wordnik.com. [For Better Or For Worse] Reference
He also eaved in on arms control, consenting to deep cuts in strategic nuclear weapons (chart). From Wordnik.com. ['No More Lies--Ever'] Reference
If she suffers him to remain there without interruption, her doing so is consenting to his suit. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Then again, did I have enough information to disapprove of this affair between consenting adults?. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: The Unforgettable Friendship] Reference
No one surrendered a jot or tittle of these rights by consenting to the formation of the Government. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
What I'm talking about is consenting adults freely entering into arrangements for living their lives. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: If Gay Marriage Wins...] Reference
A parent's claims are ever paramount; and Heaven, that witnesses my motive, will pardon my consenting. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
"Tell me in words, dearest -- tell me in words, consenting words, or I shall gather them from your lips.". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
"I want you to know," she says, "the only reason I'm consenting to this is because I wish to clear my name.". From Wordnik.com. [Finally, Spike’s First Joint] Reference
The first is by making it up with your mother-in-law, and consenting, for money, to live under her dominion. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The real children, if any, were usually consenting parties to an arrangement which cut off their expectations. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
The firms neither admitted nor denied the charges in consenting to the fines, according to regulatory records. From Wordnik.com. [Finra Fines High-Speed Trading Firm $1 Million] Reference
Stephen was shed, then I myself was standing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of those who slew him. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference
A fourth time she returned, consenting to forego all thoughts of vengeance if the king would order the young hero to marry her. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
In 1977 people split evenly, 43 to 43%, on whether homosexual relations between consenting adults should or should not be legal. From Wordnik.com. [Gay Marriage Slowly Gaining] Reference
Should he hesitate, however, I will shame him into consenting, I will threaten him with invoking the aid of the French minister!. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The duties of a bridesmaid are altogether easy and pleasant, and Grace had no difficulty in consenting to take them upon herself. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
But at the Gauntlet, a national chain of parlors that pokes 18,000 holes a year, the stock in trade is consenting, rational adults. From Wordnik.com. [Think Of It As Therapy] Reference
Supreme Court recognize what Canada did back in 1969: the government has no place legislating the private activities of consenting adults. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
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