What's the difference between consent and permission?

Consent


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
  • (v. i.) To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply.
  • (v. t.) To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit.
  • (n.) Agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind; accord.
  • (n.) Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence.
  • (n.) Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.
  • (n.) Capable, deliberate, and voluntary assent or agreement to, or concurrence in, some act or purpose, implying physical and mental power and free action.
  • (n.) Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
  • (2) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (3) This paper raises other issues for consideration, including problems associated with HIV testing, confidentiality, informed consent and the dilemmas facing those involved in the treatment of patients suffering from HIV infection.
  • (4) This article examines current statutory and common law analyses of malpractice issues in transplantation, with particular attention given to issues of informed consent as they arise both for the organ donor and donee.
  • (5) In addition, special legislation relating to adolescents, particularly legislation or court decisions concerning parental consent for contraception or abortion for a minor, has an important influence on the access that sexually active young people have to services.
  • (6) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
  • (7) However, unmarried women under 18 must obtain parental consent or written permission from their legal guardian or from a judge to undergo the operation.
  • (8) 1 Desferrioxamine mesylate (DM) (10 mg kg-1 = 15.24 mumol kg-1) was given by intramuscular injection to five healthy subjects and to six patients with haemochromatosis, after informed consent.
  • (9) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
  • (10) Bostock, who is long thought to have had a tense relationship with chief executive Marc Bolland , is departing by "mutual consent to pursue other interests" on 1 October, when she will also leave the M&S board.
  • (11) Consent forms are of no benefit to the physician or the patient if they are worded poorly or put to poor use.
  • (12) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
  • (13) Communication issues in obtaining organ donation consent were examined, with particular focus on what are literally life-and-death decisions.
  • (14) Secretory phase endometrial biopsy specimens were taken, with informed consent, as an outpatient procedure.
  • (15) Having given my consent to Pavid's love declaration, I went home and properly lost my mind.
  • (16) It raises issues of informed consent, coercion, and trust in the physician patient relationship.
  • (17) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
  • (18) Sometimes naked images are taken of people without their knowledge or consent.
  • (19) We hope that the court of appeal in reaching its judgment understands that consent cannot happen when a woman is too drunk to consent.
  • (20) Ashley Cole has joined LA Galaxy after his contract at Roma was terminated by mutual consent .

Permission


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
  • (2) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
  • (3) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
  • (4) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
  • (5) Then, the informed permission of parents should be obtained.
  • (6) A human Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B-cell line (IC.1) was characterized for cell surface antigen profile and permissivity to immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
  • (7) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
  • (8) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
  • (9) In contrast to the defect in another packaging-deficient mutant ts1201, the block in the formation of dense-cored, DNA-containing capsids in ts1233-infected cells at the NPT could not be reversed by transferring the cells to the permissive temperature in the presence of a protein synthesis inhibitor.
  • (10) With thermosensitive mutants non-defective for G and M antigens, cell fusion is much more extensive at the non-permissive temperature (39-6 degrees C) than at the permissive one (31 degrees C).
  • (11) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
  • (12) Crandell feline kidney cells in which the ADV-G strain of ADV was permissively replicating contained virion and non-structural proteins, large amounts of single stranded virion DNA, duplex replicative form (RF) DNA, and mRNA.
  • (13) This result contraindicates a general permissive-requisite role for forebrain NE for the mammalian brain's plasticity during its critical periods.
  • (14) However, unmarried women under 18 must obtain parental consent or written permission from their legal guardian or from a judge to undergo the operation.
  • (15) These results support the idea that P. aeruginosa may be a more permissive host than E. coli for the heterologous expression of genes from gram-negative bacteria.
  • (16) Authorities in most cities – from Chita in Siberia to Makhachkala in Dagestan – denied permission for the rallies.
  • (17) United do not need permission from the Premier League or any other governing body to arrange the games, so the decision will be taken on a logistical basis.
  • (18) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
  • (19) Some clinicians believe that increasing resistance by relatives to granting permission contributes to the falling rates, but this is a minority view.
  • (20) Crisis in Yemen – the Guardian briefing Read more “We have the permission for this plane but we have logistical problems for the landing.