The FOMC operates mostly by consensus, but the chair sets the agenda and shapes the policy proposals that are brought to the committee's deliberations.
And voting on policy was open and mostly "by consensus," though secret ballots were employed for judicial decisions to ensure fairness.
Indeed, since the group works mostly by consensus, a small coalition can block longer-term policy actions favored even by a majority of the group.
Although online education is at times envisioned as a time-saving enterprise, a recent, mostly anecdotal consensus indicates that, in fact, online education is more labor intensive for the instructor, if not for the student as well.
"The data is mostly above consensus and confirms that growth is picking up and that China is not at risk of hard landing," said Dariusz Kowalczyk, an analyst at Credit Agricole in Hong Kong, in a note to clients.
According to this view, Xi is mostly a consensus choice among competing factions, and power is now exercised by a collective leadership, so the new country's new rulers are likely to move cautiously, if at all, particularly on issues of reform.
The Chamber was established to operate mostly by consensus, which, as veterans of Occupy Wall Street know all too well, means that for decades it did very little in the way of operating.
Instead, it's co-sponsored by Democrat Ron Wyden, and there's a mostly bipartisan consensus that current benefits shouldn't be touched by any entitlement reform, but that such reform is also somehow an imperative.
In case of disagreement, the assessors sought and mostly achieved consensus.
Data regarding anticoagulation in patients with associated forms of PAH such as SSc-PAH are even scarcer; however, such a strategy has been extrapolated from IPAH studies and current treatment algorithms recommend warfarin in these patients, based mostly on consensus opinion.
