Sentence examples for intense consultations from inspiring English sources

Two high officials of the new Spanish government, in a briefing for reporters, said that since Mr. Zapatero's election victory on March 14, intense consultations had been held with heads of state or top officials of 12 nations.

By yesterday, the administration was saying that Mr. Bush had simply changed his mind after intense consultations with Mr. Cheney and several senators who would not know global warming from a gas grill.

"France and Germany have had intense consultations on this issue over the last months, at all levels," a senior EU official in Brussels told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions.

The new prime minister, Monti, confirmed he would take on the unenviable task of governing the eurozone's most indebted nation after two days of intense consultations during which Italy's borrowing costs soared to unsustainable levels.

Thursday's announcement by the State Department followed weeks of intense consultations throughout the Bush White House that appeared to many United Nations officials to be preparing the ground for American participation on the panel.

There were intense consultations at the United Nations on Friday among Security Council members, including Russia and China, which oppose the indictment, and others, including the United States, that say the indictment should be allowed to proceed.

After 15 minutes of intense consultation, during which he described most of his cherished cheeses and told little stories about some of them, he produced plates of six slices, chunks and wedges selected from his assortment of some 40 cheeses.

In each case, the process takes about three years and it finds England in its most meticulous vein of local democracy: intense consultation, on-path meetings, reports, period for objections and examination by independent DEFRA-appointed inspector.

Even Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who has been among the most cautious of Mr. Bush's senior advisers on Iraq, urging intense consultation with allies and detailed discussion of the challenge of building a stable Iraq after Mr. Hussein, took pains to say the administration would act alone if necessary.

Even the expert being quoted above, after intense consultation on the content of the policy brief, changed position from not wanting to be acknowledged to wanting to be acknowledged.

But the anticlimactic nature of the postponement belied the intense private consultations that preceded it.