"Between nineteen eighty-eight and two thousand was when we really started implementing education campaigns about what consent is.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

But this practice of informed consent is relatively new.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

The operations are highly unpopular among Pakistanis, but are believed to occur with the tacit consent of the government.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Clyburn urged Republican leaders to join Democrats in publicly condemning anyone who encourages threats, vandalism and violence, saying that "silence is consent."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Local authorities will be prohibited from entering Russian property without consent of the Russian border patrol chief.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

And while the attacks have sparked public outrage and denunciations from officials, they are widely believed to have the consent of the Pakistani government.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

"We have a tradition in this country of policing by consent.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

"I am here to protest what the government is doing to us, taking our freedoms away, spending way too much money, ramming these things down the throat of the people without their consent."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

I think it is one of the things that we can be proud of, but my view is that has to be informed consent and I think one of the problems with the way the police service has operated up to now is that the discussion about tactics and strategy has been an internal discussion in the profession and I think the police service needs to be better at having that discussion with the public to whom they are accountable."

VOA: standard.2009.04.21