In the Bali summit of 2007, the single government holding out against the proposed deal was the US; if they had not in the end come round, would the Indonesian hosts have been as willing to "note" US objections and move on declaring consensus as the Mexicans were to work around Bolivian objections?
At a recent meeting, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEANN) appeared ready to declare a consensus position backing the Philippines in the dispute, only to rescind its statement within hours.
The state party had a system wherein there would be a series of meetings of its 355 leaders in order to declare a "consensus" candidate that the party would support in any primary election.
At the height of the confrontation with Congress in 1996, facing what looked like a potentially difficult re-election campaign, he put himself in a commanding position for November by declaring a consensus on a number of issues that the Republicans on Capitol Hill had expected to struggle over.
Or have we declared a consensus that is based on an illusion?
Professor Goldsmith probably was quite premature in declaring a consensus in the national controversy over those policies, based solely on polling data.
Calderón, who managed to formalise those commitments in Cancún, said that international law allowed for the French hosts to "declare" when a consensus had been reached, even if some countries were holding out.
It is forbidden in Islam to declare a caliphate without consensus from all Muslims.
The staff will number about 50 or 60, compared to 800 at the compound in Tel Aviv where the embassy has been for years — until Trump upended decades of international consensus to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
Ewing, et al. (2008) declared that the consensus method based on rooted triplets outperformed the extended majority rule consensus strategy[ 38].
Mr. Bouteflika declared himself the "consensus President" and prepared to take office later this month.
