Wilson's program ultimately failed to sustain a consensus among the American people.
But, in order to sustain that consensus, we must acknowledge the costs of those mistakes, as measured in damage to some of our most essential beliefs: in the presumption of innocence, fair procedures, individual culpability, and the right to free speech.
And it is very much in the administration's own interest to honor it, because in a democracy, building and sustaining a consensus to wage war requires an informed citizenry.
That may be true, but in a country where 400 million live without electricity, it isn't easy to manufacture, or sustain, a national consensus.
The ability to sustain an establishment consensus and suppress troublemakers makes islands especially hospitable to offshore finance, reassuring international financiers that local establishments can be trusted not to allow democratic politics to interfere in the business of making money.
The panel is tasked by the UN Secretary General to recommend "how to build and sustain broad political consensus on an ambitious yet achievable Post-2015 development agenda around the three dimensions of economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability".
"This may reduce pressures toward consensus, sustain a more democratic discussion, and encourage logic more than emotion in decision-making".
These combined data also suggest that, in early infection, reversion solely due to replicative fitness is atypical (although specific sites outside of the regions studied here may have a different dynamic), and that, in chronic infection, mutation towards the consensus is a dynamic process involving sustained turnover between consensus and mutant forms.
They have adopted a set of seven principles: educate participants, frame issues neutrally, achieve diversity, get buy-in from policy makers, support quality deliberation, demonstrate public consensus, and sustain involvement.
The reasoning behind this prohibition is difficult to sustain given the broad consensus about the relatively low moral status of the preimplantation embryo as presupposed in the justification of IVF itself.
