What if 40,000 teachers had taken the time and trouble to tell the government, in a consultation, how to reduce their incessant workload and then … nothing happened?
In October, Donald Rumsfeld called Bremer home for all-day consultations on how to get a serious interim Iraqi government.
But in a statement on Tuesday, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said that it wanted to conduct further consultations on how to control costs.
See articleDevil in the detailNorth Korea's regional neighbours continued their consultations about how to impose sanctions on the country following its nuclear test earlier this month.
Bishop said the ambassador to Indonesia, Paul Grigson, had arrived back in Australia for consultations on how to restore relations between the two countries after the executions of Chan and Sukumaran.
The U.S., China, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are soon to undertake consultations on how to relaunch the peace process, but continued Taliban military advances in Afghanistan, without Pakistani efforts to restrain them, could cause a breakdown at any time.
On the one hand there is the question of why, if Straw is so determined to defy the Strasbourg ruling, his government wasted public time and money on two protracted consultations on how to give prisoners the vote.
He told lawmakers that his government was "willing to engage in serious consultations" on how to implement accords that the two previous South Korean presidents, Kim Dandjung and Roh Moo-hyun, reached with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-in, in 2000 and 2007.
On May 26th, Turkey's Foreign Minister, Abdullah Gul, announced at a news conference in Ankara that the Turkish government was bringing its Ambassador in Israel home for consultations on how to revive the Middle East peace process.
As if on cue ICANN's boss, Fadi Chehade, told the conference that next week his organisation will begin public consultations on how to achieve this goal.In practical terms, such tweaks do not smack of a revolution.
