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Yes, it was one of those moments of overstated instant consensus, but it was not entirely without cause.
When the narrator of "Bermuda" brings an older girlfriend home to meet his mother, the women "formed an instant consensus about my shortcomings as a human being".
Here, it was a settler assault on an army base and on a military commander in occupied territory that enraged Israelis and produced an instant consensus that radical steps equaling those applied to Palestinians were warranted.
When an investor suggested the new name, there was an instant consensus because it so perfectly fulfilled our strategic objectives.
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But it seems likely that viewers are swayed, too, by the announcers who call the fights, by the unofficial scores that the networks provide, and by the instant consensuses that form on social media.
The instant liberal consensus was that Stonewall must sign up at once to a boycott of the hotel chain.
NBC and its quiet, stolid, no-flash reporter Pete Williams were, by the instant Twitter consensus, the journalistic gold standard of the Boston story.
The social nature of the Web will encourage a sort of instant global consensus on important issues, with little time for filtering, comparison or critical analysis.
One top aide draws the contrast this way: "Pragmatism versus ideology; thoroughness of review versus instant decisions; consensus versus go-it-alone". On Afghanistan, this aide stresses, Obama wants to avoid any semblance of a "rush to war". Nine months on, that doesn't seem like a danger.
And many national political leaders prefer to focus on instant domestic consensus -- tested through daily polls -- rather than dedicate their efforts to a project that may seem unpopular.
It is shown that by utilizing only the information of neighbors, which is transmitted by neighbors at their own triggering time instants, exponential consensus can be achieved and Zeno behavior can be excluded.
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