It became harder and harder to achieve a serious-minded consensus.
Part III of the Short Guide anticipates serious obstacles to consensus building and suggests procedures for handling them, regardless of whether the participants are involved in an ad hoc or a permanent interaction.
While it is possible that the problem could turn out to be less serious than the consensus forecast, it is equally likely to turn out to be more serious.
After years of gridlock, a bill that would help legalize Internet poker in California advanced out of a legislative committee on Wednesday after its author said there has been "serious progress toward consensus" between many competing interests in the gambling industry.
This was a little more of an issue for long sequences in the P4P6 dataset, which became serious when the consensus structure did not include a long inserted region.
For consensus-based algorithms, ignoring gaps can lead to serious mistakes when a consensus is forced to be selected for a gap position, which has no dominant characters.
There's also a consensus, among serious experts and every bipartisan commission that has studied the issue, that it can be addressed only with cutbacks in the growth of entitlements like Medicare and with higher taxes.
On "Today," Mr. Recchion, the foreman, said the jurors had made a serious effort to reach consensus when they were asked to resume deliberations on Thursday, but they could not.
(There's no formal consensus). Some serious fans were followers of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit that promotes "nutrient-dense foods". At that point, drinking bone broth was about as trendy and controversial as sprinkling nutritional yeast on your popcorn.
The dangers of the nuclear option one of the partners pulling out of the coalition, triggering a Conservative minority government followed by a new election are a robust deterrent.But as a small, intricate network of senior figures forges consensus, a serious rift is growing between leaders and their parties.
l On the serious lack of scientific consensus of the larval-transfer hypothesis see 'Unification as a putative causal story'.
