For now, consensus reigns.
Lack of consensus reigns.
"The Senate, by its nature, is a place where consensus reigns and personal relationships are paramount," Lamar Alexander said.
Stew, Plainview, New York The teachers' union, recognizing that it has lost the battle against objective standards, now insists that consensus reigns.
They typically came of age in the 1950s, when consensus reigned, and with it conformism.
The Washington consensus reigned supreme: persuade governments to put on "the golden straitjacket", in Tom Friedman's phrase, and prosperity would follow.Today big government is back with a vengeance: not just as a brute fact, but as a vigorous ideology.
Extremism versus compromise and consensus may not be new in an historical perspective, but from 1945 until a decade or two ago compromise and consensus reigned largely unchallenged.
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He opposed critical ages to "organic" ones, when harmony, consensus, and unity reigned.
Whatever happens over the next three days, the reigning consensus is that Andrew Strauss should perhaps take note.
Still, his economic populism is a profound break with the conservative economic consensus that has reigned in Republican politics for decades.
