Word: consented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advice on how to handle toughs ("He should let them see that they have not worn out his love . . ."), how to conduct "Hallelujah Windup" sessions, how to select a wife or husband. Officers are not allowed to marry outside the army, and may not marry without their superiors' consent...
Said Langer: "I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to sit while making my speech." There was no objection, and he sat. He crossed his legs, tilted back in his chair, laughed at his own attempts at wit, providing a spectacle without parallel in senatorial history. It was a shabby show...
...younger brothers Gloucester and Cumberland married their own lights-of-love without so much as a by-your-leave, George was furious and had Parliament pass the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. It has provided ever since that George's descendants may not marry without first asking the consent of the reigning monarch. For though Britons love ardor, they love order even more...
Said Dr. Jesus Bacala of the Philippines: artificial insemination, in cases where a donor's semen is used without the husband's knowledge or consent, is obviously immoral, obnoxious and illegal. More thorny are cases in which the husband's consent is given. Said Bacala: "The fact that a woman has to obtain semen other than her husband's has an adulterous tinge." Besides, the methods of obtaining such semen involve, said he, either adultery, onanism, or, at the very least "a pollution...
Father Murray's haughty assertion that the Pope will never consent to sit as an equal among the equals at the World Council of Churches shows how far the Roman Catholic Church has deviated from both the spirit and teaching of Christ and the practice of the early church. Christ was most emphatic in stating that the only supremacy His followers could covet was to be based not on domination but on humble service (St. Matthew...