(v. i.) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
(v. i.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(2) Productivity growth makes it possible for well-organised labour movements to apply political pressure to reduce workloads, resulting in consensual legislative strategies on the part of states.
(3) Hope u feel better xx” Bird told Channel 4’s political editor Michael Crick: “Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship between 18 September and 2 November, well after her admission to the list of approved candidates.
(4) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(5) Since the coincidence of radiological and intraoperative findings was only 67%, the ophthalmological findings such as lack of direct pupil reaction with preserved consensual light reaction or progressive loss of vision after a corresponding traumatic incident are our guideline for performing transethmoidal decompression of the optic nerve.
(6) Is voice search really going to catch on, or is it some sort of consensual hallucination by the tech industry?
(7) Paterson added in the letter, published on the PoliticsHome website : "However, the government is rightly committed to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and has already taken action to do so by allowing those religious premises that wish to carry out civil partnerships to do so, erasing historic convictions for consensual gay sex and putting pressure on other countries that violate the human rights of LGBT people.
(8) Teela Sanders , another academic who believes that regulation of prostitution is neither desirable nor possible, says of moves to criminalise punters: "Putting limits on private morality with regard to the legitimate purchase and provision of consensual commercial sex is evidence of a state seeking to control sexuality rather than to preserve diversity, difference and freedom."
(9) But will we continue to push forward the frontiers, enlarging the range of our consensual understanding?
(10) It needs constant improvement and extensions in order to reach a consensual attitude towards this king of suffering but also towards other situations of pain care management frequently encountered in cancer patients as well as those with other pathologies.
(11) Kaletsky thinks the president, whose power is waxing, can now "dictate the broad terms of a budgetary truce" to Republicans, and that "the approaching budget and debt negotiations should prove surprisingly consensual and calm."
(12) As Trump’s dystopia becomes a reality, the nostalgia for his calm, measured and consensual solutions has begun early.
(13) The best method for detecting relative afferent pupillary defects using the alternating light test is to compare contraction amplitudes, looking for consensual responses that are greater than direct responses.
(14) I want this to happen in a consensual, sensible, non-inflammatory way and that's why I've been so reticent about it."
(15) In the fellow saline-injected eyes, a clear consensual response was observed with regard to the extravasation of protein, although the uveitic grade in these eyes was low or zero.
(16) The hope is that the new Baghdad government, headed by Haider al-Abadi, will prove more consensual.
(17) The mothers said, 'We understand it's a criminal offence even if it's consensual', which I said was quite right.
(18) Dr. Ogden has tried to integrate two very different Kleinian formulations about (1) early infant development and (2) adult mental relationships (both called projective identification) with Winnicott's ideas about the ways in which any mother introduces her own version of consensual reality to her infant and influences the qualities of the infant's first, and forever basic, mental relationship (called impingement).
(19) For India's British colonial rulers this could have meant many things, including consensual fellatio between a man and a woman, but its squeamish machismo clearly had in mind penetrative sex between two adult males, a spectre that continues to terrify the morally correct across the world .
(20) The vast majority of young women in Latin America report never having been married or in union, although more reported living in consensual union than in legal marriages.
Consensus
Definition:
(n.) Agreement; accord; consent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The deduced amino acid sequence contained no consensus sequence indicative of N-glycosylation.
(2) Translation of the tnsC ORF reveals strong homology to a consensus sequence for nucleotide binding sites as well as a region of similarity to a transcriptional activator (MalT).
(3) All members of this family contain consensus sequence elements consistent with GTP binding near their amino termini, although none has been shown to have GTPase activity.
(4) The C4 and C4b models are compared with possible structures for the C1 component of complement to show the importance of the surface accessibility of the protease domains and short consensus repeat domains in C1 for C4 activation.
(5) For dyslexia, schizophrenia, and depression, there is a considerable volume of research reports but still no consensus about how to use quantitative EEG tests for care of individual patients.
(6) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(7) Since the N-terminal amino acid of the coat protein of PVA was blocked, the position of the putative coat protein cleavage site has been deduced by searching for consensus sequences and by the analogy to other potyviruses.
(8) Study 2 provides evidence that an innovative weighted scoring approach, based on current medical consensus, can be used to produce a reliable, general index of pathology that is independent of the number of procedures used to evaluate patients.
(9) However, a purified recombinant fragment of the GR which contained essentially only its DNA binding domain was unable to bind at the GME although it interacted strongly with a consensus GRE sequence.
(10) And there seems to be party consensus that this is a good thing; a poll released this week by NBC News and Survey Monkey found that 57% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want Sanders to stay in the race until the convention.
(11) A consensus promoter sequence was found immediately 5' to the first ORF.
(12) The nucleotide sequence of the E3 promoter region revealed consensus sequences for several DNA binding proteins but no apparent TATA box or Sp1 sites.
(13) Among the implications of the less-than-impressive substantive results of the MWTA is the lesson that while a crisis can tilt the political balance in favor of regulatory legislation, it cannot as readily produce the consensus required to sustain that regulation at the levels promised in the legislation.
(14) But like officials from most other countries represented here – with the notable exception of Britain – Chernishova acknowledges a "general consensus" in her country, in both the media and among the legal profession, on the value of the court's judgments.
(15) Curbelo said that the caucus is an “ideas factory” but there are no consensus solutions to go with the group’s name.
(16) For now, given the group's perceived correlation with consumer confidence, consensus opinion continues to denote a sell [on the shares]."
(17) The inhibitory properties of these peptides depend mainly on the presence of the QxVxG consensus sequence.
(18) Several promoter elements in the correct orientation for the transcript are present including consensus TATA and CAAT boxes and an SP1 site.
(19) Op72a matches the consensus sequence, whereas Op72b contains two mismatches.
(20) Previous observations have shown that three out of the four major sites of polyadenylation do not display consensus hexanucleotide (AATAAA, ATTAAA) signals.