Once the Senator had concluded his remarks, and it appeared as though he had easily captured consensus to proceed, Senator Shaheen spoke.
Here, the reason for the randomized allocation of sheeting type was explained further and consensus to proceed with the trial was sought.
Administration officials said they had been considering the issue for weeks, but came to a consensus on how to proceed only during a late-night conference call among the president's senior advisers on Thursday, a few hours after Mr. Gore gave a speech in which he laid out the case for drawing on the nation's oil reserves.
The six commissioners, who have a history of deadlocking, have failed to reach a consensus on how to proceed.
But there is hardly a consensus over how to proceed.
Mr. Duhalde must govern accordingly, presiding over an administration that works with all the major parties to create a consensus on how to proceed.
Mr. Gates, who warned North Korea in a speech here early Saturday that the United States would not tolerate it becoming a nuclear-armed nation, met throughout the day at the conference, called the Shangri-La Dialogue, with defense officials from China, South Korea, Japan and other Asian nations to begin pulling together a consensus on how to proceed.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation said yesterday that it had enlisted several high-ranking state and city political officials, as well as business and community leaders, as advisers in its effort to form a consensus on how to proceed with rebuilding Lower Manhattan.
Ambassador Danesh-Yazdi said that the talks, which followed after the formal presentations, allowed the Board to discuss all the options for improving the draft proposals before reaching a consensus on how to proceed.
Taking into account the patient's relatively young age, the size and location of aneurysm and the presence of a rete mirabile type of network, the multidisciplinary team's consensus was to proceed with a surgical treatment.
