consenting adults. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : He gave his consent to the marriage. ,By common consent he was appointed official delegate. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : He consented to the proposal. We asked her permission, and she consented. 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
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
"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 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
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
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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