Sentence examples for it consensus from inspiring English sources
"On many subjects," says Hague, "there is a good deal of... do we call it consensus any more?" Well, call it or not, that's what it is.
As Mr Moore puts it, consensus is both "our strongest point and our weakness".Given this consensus-based system, and after the Seattle fiasco, it seems bizarre that Charlene Barshefsky, America's trade representative, chose to announce last month that she and Pascal Lamy, Europe's trade commissioner, had nearly agreed on an agenda for a new round of trade talks at the WTO.
The city calls it "consensus voting".
However, on conference calls with his core staff over the weekend, he discerned that the mood had shifted: there was something approaching a bag-it consensus.
Business can do it right when it has consensus, clear goals and the opportunity to pioneer.
"It beat consensus expectations by 23 cents, and it's across the board".
"It can achieve multiple goals, and that is why it elicited consensus from the participants".
Or as Margaret Thatcher once put it: "... consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies... it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects".
"Sometimes it builds consensus".
