Sentence examples for a gathering consensus from inspiring English sources

Since the 1960s, the United States has traveled on a herky-jerky trip from hippies and head shops to grass-roots backlash by suburban parents, from enthusiastic funding of the war on drugs to a gathering consensus that the war had little effect on marijuana use.

Images of suffering don't necessarily forge popular attitudes ex nihilo; they catalyze an already gathering consensus.

Yet, as a marketer, actually gathering consensus and convincing your colleagues to make a decision on implementing a big data platform can be a challenge.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has the higher profile – partly due to a 1966 movie version that became indelibly enmeshed with the messy private lives of its stars, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton – but there is a gathering critical consensus that his masterpiece was A Delicate Balance.

According to the gathering consensus in Tinseltown, his showy but obvious performance is a shoo-in for this year's best supporting actor.

I myself had first-hand experience of just how intractable it can be in 2012, with a film I made for Channel 4. Islam: The Untold Story explored the gathering consensus among historians that much of what Muslims have traditionally believed about the life of Muhammad is unlikely to be strict historical fact - and it provoked a firestorm of death threats.

Its decision is part and parcel of the gathering consensus.

There is no gathering consensus on how to solve the issue or who is to blame.

But there are Republican doctrinal fantasies that may be more dangerous: the conviction that taxes can always go down, but never up, for example, and the gathering consensus among Republican leaders that human-caused climate change does not exist.

The gathering consensus is that the recession is nearly over in the city and, largely because of the enormous amount of federal aid poured into the big banks, the toll on New York will be much less severe than most had feared.

As too often happens in international gatherings, consensus represents the lowest common denominator rather than the highest attainable standards.