After Diefenbaker was returned with a minority, Washington continued to press for acceptance of nuclear arms, but Diefenbaker, faced with a split between Defence Minister Douglas Harkness and External Affairs Minister Howard Green on the question, continued to stall, hoping that time and events would invite consensus.
These norms were constructed around generic drinking behaviours rather than personal consumption ('you' and 'they' rather than 'I') and language and terminology were used to enhance statements, invite consensus from other group members, and identify deviance from these norms.
Snug Bonn has always invited consensus, though the reliance on co-operation among political parties, employers and unions may have been preventing Germany from modernising itself of late.
But the activism that swelled up to a pitch eclipsing the exhibition left modernists embarassingly aware that eurocentric claims for art were but local histories, often expressed in regional languages, values and myths, and as such were not subject to global consideration, and never invited consensus.
(Interaction between two females, Focus group 1) Where issues were discussed which were considered to fall outwith the socially defined acceptable norm, negative terms such as 'shouldn't'youyou just wouldn't'thathat just doesn't happen anymore' and 'isn't it' were used along with vocal emphasis to invite group consensus greatly influenced the direction of discussions.
Issues that invite such left/right consensus are numerous, including raising the federal minimum wage, protecting civil liberties, tackling government waste and corruption, advancing solar energy, reforming the corporate tax system, full Medicare for all (with free choice of doctor and hospital) and a crackdown on corporate crime and abuses against consumers, workers and communities.
All panel members were invited for a consensus meeting during which an overview of the first round ratings was provided.
12 13 Feedback was collated and forwarded (with permission) to those invited to a consensus development workshop, the next phase of the revision process.
In step 2, panel members were invited to the consensus meeting to discuss results from step 1 and to criticise instruments and specific items face-to-face.
Before we rush in and make profound changes that will dramatically alter our world, let's acknowledge the fact that neither side of the debate can claim consensus, and invite further inquiry of all kinds and from all quarters, until we reach truth.
KL was invited expert to the consensus process and contributed a section to the draft.
