consent
They were considered to be consenting volunteers who fully understood the risks.
The study involved donated adult stem cells from consenting patients.
Data was collected from the records of sixty-eight consenting clients.
He guided legislation through Parliament that made consenting sex between men legal.
He claimed he did not know that the woman was not consenting.

Examples of consenting

consenting
The act of two or more people consenting on the same thing about giving or doing something being called a pact.
Blood samples were obtained for genetic diagnosis from all consenting participants.
I have divided the women who appear in the acts into three categories : active women, passive women and consenting wives.
Consenting women were randomly allocated to either preventive intervention or routine primary care.
If in her mind she was not consenting, then she was not consenting, regardless of how the reasonable person would interpret her behavior.
Over the next eight-day period many of the employer groups had agreed to the new monopolisation without consenting to the pay increase.
A daily rectal swab was taken from all consenting individuals of any age from all these households during one week.
The doctor is not allowed to inform the patients about what they have been consenting to, until the pharmaceutical company gives its consent.
In that circumstance, the parents would have been consenting to the nondisclosure.
Generally (excluding picture 2), both consenting and non-consenting images were understood better by the young people.
The task of explaining the project and recruiting consenting patients was the responsibility of a practice nurse in all eight practices.
Finally, consenting informants were sent a word list in the mail, which they then later read aloud to the interviewer during a follow-up telephone interview.
The presence of women in consenting and passive roles is to be expected, since so many of the acts deal with property.
All consenting eligible patients were randomized to receive either the brief intervention or usual physiotherapy.
Qualitative methods have, finally, been accepted by the mainstream, and are no longer used only by 'consenting eccentrics'!
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