| Bad weather or no, the general consensus is that an employee is paid for 35 hours and he should work all of those hours. |
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| As a statement of society's moral consensus Shell's point is unexceptionable. |
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| A consensus is beginning to emerge regarding many key nodes in basal metazoan and cnidarian phylogeny, but many important questions remain. |
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| This turns out to be an argument which raises deep and difficult issues, and there is no consensus about the proper response to it. |
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| He has often had to work with his back to the wall to find a consensus among his party colleagues. |
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| Unfortunately, the consensus is based on faulty assumptions and thus wrong solutions. |
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| If we don't see a better consensus before November 2nd, it's going to be one nail-biter of a night. |
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| A consensus quickly emerged across the commentariat that social conservatism is a sure loser in federal politics. |
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| The following diagram indicatively illustrates the consensus view reflected in the ten workshop plans. |
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| It was underpinned by a level of social consensus unprecedented since before the Reformation. |
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| Values and principles such as sharing, co-operation, altruism, communalism, nonviolence, nonconfrontation, consultation, consensus. |
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| A number of consensus statements regarding management of opioid therapy are cited for reference. |
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| I suppose a certified agreement is a real product of consensus in the industrial relations situation. |
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| Let's hear it for the heretics and the emergence of a Nazarene in the midst of all this theocratic consensus. |
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| The consensus in Democratic circles is that the retired Army general dimmed his prospects through an uneven performance on the campaign trail. |
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| Many of these vacancies are in the electronics sector, which has thrived in the climate of consensus and partnership. |
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| Our consensus now maintains social equilibrium by the more refined method of suppressing forms of thought. |
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| Displaying the temporary disagreements to the public would hamper communication of the consensus. |
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| There was a broad consensus on this, though there were some disagreements over the details. |
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| Data were independently abstracted by three of the authors and disagreements were resolved by consensus. |
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| Two assessors independently reviewed each trial, and disagreements were resolved by consensus. |
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| So far, what can be discerned from the main manifestos is an almost complete consensus. |
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| Public policy encourages surgeons to innovate when confronted with a problem, emergency or elective, for which there is no consensus solution. |
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| The campaign will be proportionate and just, legally accountable and supported by international consensus. |
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| There is a consensus that the dishlickers are a vaguely corrupt scion of the racing world, but nothing could be further from the truth. |
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| What seems to be lacking right now is a national consensus about what it means to battle terrorism. |
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| Alexander wants to encourage a consensus among this disparate body of men and women, harnessing their talents for the good of the nation. |
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| That has produced a consensus view that China was successfully engineering a managed slowdown. |
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| These were agreed at a national consensus conference and were subsequently widely disseminated throughout the country. |
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| With respect to agreement, dissensus rather than consensus, is the typical finding for all three variables. |
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| Once value consensus is eclipsed by dissensus, religion is a natural point of dissension around which political and cultural agendas cluster. |
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| With respect to consensus, the average standard deviation of 0.73 is evidence of dissensus rather than consensus. |
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| Let us tactically begin with the social form consensus and its opposite dissensus. |
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| While it was not wholly opposed to legal enactment it generally favoured machinery based on consensus. |
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| The divergence of views suggests a marked lack of consensus at the Bar on how complaints of this nature should be dealt with. |
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| The dummy had turned out to be just that, a dummy, with the group consensus being that the magazine had been lobotomised. |
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| He faced resistance in his own company-his management team tended to rule by consensus and veto his more outlandish ideas. |
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| She said she would listen to the people in order to achieve a consensus on the potentially divisive issue. |
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| There is a growing consensus, everywhere except Downing Street, that this is the way forward. |
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| The wars over the Fair Housing Act were vicious and essentially broke the back of the civil rights consensus in the Democratic party. |
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| If reality is defined by consensus, he reasoned, here was a new unmapped geography he wanted to conquer. |
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| I suppose the current consensus is AP McCoy, and he's a terrific lad, but he hasn't won the National. |
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| Despite this, an establishment consensus has already formed on the task at hand. |
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| The warden of the College expressed the consensus of these essays in this way. |
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| In addition, consensus among examiners who consecutively evaluate the same patient is difficult to achieve. |
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| But the group could not achieve a consensus as a result of which the issue has been kicked over into next year. |
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| Commonality replaced conflict, and the consensus historians uncritically celebrated American exceptionalism and social peace. |
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| One explanation for this lack of accord is the fact that a consensus about the subject of the right side of this wall was reached only recently. |
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| Let's hope that this does not become an excuse for formally launching operations prior to consensus building efforts. |
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| But once we get beyond those clear points of extremity, I don't think we do find that there is consensus on what human rights are. |
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| The fact that he is ultimately accountable to the clubs means that he needs a consensus from the clubs before he can act. |
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| What they say is that, although there is no consensus ad idem, the court should be able to find a basis for agreement. |
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| He advanced that consent has to be understood as consensus ad idem as under the Indian Contract Act of 1872. |
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| There is broad consensus that cognitive deficits play a crucial role for both the pathogenesis and prognosis of schizophrenic psychoses. |
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| Normally there is a close relation between art world consensus about artistic value and market value. |
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| The consensus is that there were eight ballots, which would make that one of the longer conclaves of the 20th century. |
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| There is a consensus now among the war planners that the war may take months, not days or weeks. |
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| This is but one more example of the consensus view being way out in left field. |
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| Some of his ideas resonate closely with the contemporary consensus of critical biblical scholars. |
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| Experts have noted that there is little consensus on what deradicalization entails, or which methods work best. |
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| In spite of the recognition of the urgent need for harmonization and standardization, consensus in these areas has developed rather slowly. |
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| The consensus is that this year's Six Nations Championship has been a belter, but this view has little to do with the standard of rugby on view. |
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| Moreover, the charge that people are denying what Orsekes defines as the consensus appears to be a straw man. |
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| The meeting, attended by all five legislative caucuses, attempted to thrash out a preliminary consensus before today's meeting. |
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| The past year has brought to light what so long was concealed under the veil of the German consensus model. |
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| By interaction and osmosis, the prevailing attitude shifts from one of doctrine, to that of a general consensus. |
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| Minority rule is now the consensus notwithstanding the majority, and heretofore the laws hold differently. |
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| But it did not cede Taiwan because among legal experts, there is a consensus that cession requires the stipulation of both donor and recipient. |
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| The big news is that for all the Sturm und Drang, we may be seeing the emergence of a remarkable expert consensus. |
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| The politics of consensus and conciliation gave way to the politics of confrontation and intrigue. |
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| After the concert the consensus was to head back to our respective hotels and sleep for as long as possible. |
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| The unspoken consensus in much of the energy community is that you cannot address global warming without substantial additions of nuclear energy. |
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| A consensus persists that the single European currency is undervalued at present levels and should recover over the medium term. |
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| The closest cohesion in this will be reached through a synodical unity of spirit and a striving for consensus. |
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| We tried to get a consensus of opinion and it proved to be easier than I thought. |
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| The consensus among community forums is that the message was probably a warped joke. |
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| Assessing fetal growth is complex, and there is little consensus on which measure should be used. |
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| In other words, the consensus has been downright confuted, over a nine-month period, by the course of events. |
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| There was remarkable political consensus on this initiative facilitating the speedy adoption of the text. |
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| He permitted people to retain it, and since then there has been a consensus of opinion on its permissibility. |
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| A strong relationship means that it must depend on a consensus of needs and opinion. |
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| Reaching political consensus on such complex issues is never easy, given the diversity of interests that must be addressed. |
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| We have to know there is a firm consensus of opinion behind us, and would not press on ahead without it. |
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| Dressed informally in windbreakers and sweaters, they helped build a consensus for free trade. |
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| The 60,000 samples obtained from the four chains were then concatenated to produce the consensus results shown here. |
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| The problem was that the first cracks in the comfortable post-war consensus were beginning to appear. |
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| The general consensus is that they are in public life for what they can get out of it. |
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| The government is struggling to find a consensus over proposals for the state system. |
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| Basically, the consensus appeared to be that the book was better than the movie. |
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| Secondly, what would be a sufficient consensus to ground an appeal to social justice? |
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| They have also helped to undermine the social consensus which used to be so intolerant of crime. |
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| There seems to be a growing consensus that any orientation toward the future is somehow out of place. |
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| It was only a few weeks ago that there was a broad consensus that UK interest rates were on the way up. |
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| It's all up for discussion, but the consensus is that most clubs want sections too. |
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| The overwhelming consensus is that the lack of knowledge is probably the merciful way it should be. |
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| We aren't likely to get a consensus about that from the groups who monitored the elections. |
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| There needs to be a clear consensus on what a charity should be in order to be granted any tax and other benefits. |
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| The general consensus is that faith in an afterlife is a positive psychological state. |
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| A consensus on good taste is a futile ambition, for who knows what it would be, and who cares? |
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| This argument presupposes a consensus on the nature of the international crimes we have just questioned. |
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| The general consensus of opinion has it that love is not a good thing for professional sportsmen. |
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| The consensus of everyone is that it will be painful, but you cannot run a council as large as ours on a shoestring. |
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| This credo of a particular order of comparative literature is like the hush of the schoolmarm enforcing a designed consensus at lesson's end. |
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| These scolds may defy common sense, but they're still worthy of attention because they represent the consensus among the profession's elite. |
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| He was arguably coloured by notions of lack of consensus between the parties and is criticisable today. |
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| By the time the conclave meets there is likely to be at least some consensus over the leading contenders. |
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| There is no pressure for him to succeed, for the consensus is that he's one of the biggest first-round busts in recent memory. |
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| There is a growing consensus that acculturation should be considered when conducting research with Hispanic populations. |
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| The modern consensus view is to judge the legacies of empire, especially of the modern European empires, very harshly. |
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| To be expedient, we must act within the bounds of international law consistent with consensus among the emerging allied coalition. |
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| But would these crimes cease to be crimes if, instead of being committed by unscrupulous tyrants, they were legitimated by popular consensus? |
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| Despite the mythology, sedulously disseminated by the complicit Scottish media, there never was a pro-devolution consensus. |
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| In a fierce attack on both Labour and the Tories, he urged all parties to reach a consensus on how the NHS should be managed. |
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| After a while, the consensus on how to respond to the examples breaks down and the debate stalls. |
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| There is no consensus as to the definition of overweight and obese children. |
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| The consensus among contractors seems to be that a tow-along or pull-type scraper is less expensive than a self-contained unit. |
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| Somebody needs to pick up the baton here and, you know, without kind of waiting for a consensus or without demanding concessions. |
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| The general consensus from those who trained with him is that he was indeed the real deal. |
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| The consensus was that folk literature is traditional narrative transmitted over time in an original, stable form. |
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| Inside the fence, people spoke of solidarity and consensus, of love and gentleness. |
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| The occupation of the north-eastern departments of France throughout the war also helped to prolong this consensus. |
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| When payment is involved, the consensus was that it should be for irrigation, canals, pumps, and other infrastructure, not for water per se. |
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| The width of this range represents a measure of the degree of consensus about the forecast. |
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| There is now a general consensus among planetary scientists that methane is a real part of the Martian atmosphere. |
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| A better PM, with the persuasive skills which a consummate politician should have could have at his command, evolved a consensus. |
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| Orchestrated inside jobs seemed to be the consensus, with brake lines and fuel lines being tampered with. |
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| The general consensus is that the majority of the non-coding, non-regulatory DNA is functionless. |
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| The King was looking for a way to engineer consensus, but the delegates of the Third Estate had other ideas. |
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| He was the only American world title holder and, according to a consensus of grandmasters, the best chess player in history. |
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| It was kind of incredible but the general consensus was that it was a tad long. |
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| Strategic behavior of forecasters provides a theoretical explanation for biased consensus forecasts. |
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| I think there would be a certain amount of consensus about that, even amongst the most quixotic and naturally amorous of us. |
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| The consensus view may be that a slowing economy explains the bond rally, but I remain quite skeptical. |
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| The researchers resolved disagreements by consensus and entered the outcomes and their metadata into a database. |
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| Even then it would not derive from any objectively ascertainable standard or consensus within a recognised profession. |
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| There seems to be a consensus, at least among Anglophile observers, that we are witnessing the greatest Test series in a quarter of a century. |
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| The two authors discussed the coding and when disagreements arose the transcripts were restudied and discussed until a consensus was reached. |
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| Selig's power base among the owners is built on a record of consensus and conciliation, not damn-the-torpedoes, full-speed-ahead action. |
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| They determine the steps of the interaction process that are supposed to lead to consensus between the agents. |
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| If there were any consensus on this, it would make both criticism and defense of neocon theology a lot easier and a lot less polemical. |
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| There was no general consensus among the orthopaedic surgeons we surveyed about how to cope with intraoperative death. |
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| While no fully unified vision emerged, the basic parameters of a rough consensus were forged during these years. |
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| A good policy is one that can cause society to come together and form a common consensus. |
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| Having seen the film it is not too difficult to understand why general consensus was that Willie took a dive. |
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| This broad consensus about the rightness of the war was not fundamentally eroded over the next four terrible years. |
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| The priority given to low costs contributes to a consensus that service improvements are unlikely. |
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| She insists that the British consensus around publicly funded healthcare is not eroding. |
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| By general consensus, he invented the devilishly complicated, deceptively simple-sounding rhythm that came to be known as Afrobeat. |
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| Although the consensus has always been that Undine is an anti-heroine, she has also always had her defenders. |
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| But we have come to question the divergent assumptions that underlie this seemingly broad consensus. |
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| In fact I think we gained little or no respect by allowing ourselves to fall in with the consensus. |
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| Achieving a bipartisan consensus on pensions is not an unachievable chimera. |
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| This confidence rests on the fact that a broad consensus of support exists for such conduct within the ruling elite. |
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| There is no consensus, however, on when and how to treat infants and young children with symptoms of asthma. |
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| And since the whole country is yearning for peace, I believe these different points of view will finally converge in a grand national consensus. |
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| The consensus model presented here is derived from the results of analyzing only six traces recorded in response to a single perturbation. |
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| Common consensus was that, as a lyric baritone, his voice was too light but he kept persisting. |
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| The members rely on developing a consensus after studying a broad array of macroeconomic indicators. |
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| There is consensus that it is preferable for one to go down with his guns blazing. |
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| However, the consensus opinion seems to be that he had a mild form of talipes in his right foot. |
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| After an initial consensus that it was daring and different, a new consensus emerged that it was stolid and indifferent. |
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| At the height of Britpop, there was something of a consensus culture around rock. |
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| On the positive side, there is now emerging consensus in the trade that the price crash is close to bottoming out. |
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| Without effective state support for disciplinary sanctions, voluntary consensus was the only real cement for community. |
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| The consensus was that things were bottoming out, but in recent months the picture has got even grimmer. |
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| The consensus among the Elders is that no one would believe you anyway, or at least not many. |
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| While this consensus was emerging at the top, there was a developing underswell of protest in the police rank and file. |
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| Family are divided, there is no consensus, and information flying around differs, so it's hard for people to decide who is right on this one. |
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| Yet for all their efforts, little consensus on this topic has emerged, and many areas remain unexplored. |
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| On the other hand, the general consensus seems to be that journalists are nothing but pond life scum. |
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| The Committee issues a consensus opinion though individual opinions on the merits may be added if members of the Committee so desire. |
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| The mix of consensus and disagreement shows itself also in the division lobby. |
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| Every meeting should be skilfully chaired to achieve consensus over strategic issues. |
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| Most people are not very optimistic that they can come to that kind of consensus. |
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| Backing down simply wasn't an option, however strong the consensus or the evidence. |
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| Such regimes put up a veneer of stability, unity and consensus, just as democracies project a misleading veneer of weakness. |
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| The government of Nunavut will be a non-party system and members run as independents and will govern by consensus. |
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| Ruling and opposition party legislative caucuses finally reached a consensus on Wednesday to halve the number of legislative seats. |
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| Suddenly, everyone awoke to the realization that we had come to one mind, we had reached consensus. |
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| Unlike patent, it does not purport to draw bright lines around ideas but proscribes what is, by consensus, objectionable behavior. |
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| The government has at its helm a man who seeks consensus at all costs irrespective of what that cost might be. |
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| Effective standards are the result of a consensus building process among all affected interests. |
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| Each tick mark indicates that a nucleotide within the strain differs from the consensus sequence. |
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| Leo Marai, of Papua New Guinea, will share case examples of how consensus was used in Melanesian communities to solve problems. |
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| How do we battle the gravitation toward happy consensus that paralyzes our national debate? |
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| The consensus was that, although water was indeed a lovely thing to have in unlimited supply, we'd rather overdone it. |
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| Mr Morris emphasised the importance of a consensus between the three parties being reached, rather than a ministerial dictum imposed. |
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| Three factors complicate the abortion question and hinder us from reaching a national consensus. |
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| The UN is a venue for seeking consensus on global issues from nuclear proliferation to poverty reduction. |
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| The general consensus among those running the game is that rugby union, like most sports, is suffering a decline in the numbers taking part. |
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| The consensus was that there had to be something in this astrology lark, and what did I know, I'm only an astronomy graduate. |
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| His career in government was that of a charter member of the internationalist consensus. |
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| This is a difficult concept for the gaijin to grasp when brought up on the premise that the Japanese are a consensus society. |
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| At one point, general consensus would have been that the native of Winnipeg was on the expressway to a comfortable folk music existence. |
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| We did not present our groups with a checklist of topics or require them to come to consensus. |
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| In colonial America, policing relied on community consensus and citizens' service as constables and in sheriffs' posses. |
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| Right now, the consensus of the bracketology community has Baylor as an 8-9 seed. |
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| This result lines up well with previous studies that also find repeated instances of biased consensus forecasts. |
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| Yet, exegetes can hardly ignore the unbroken consensus in the biblical witness, where the words are so clearly supported by the cross itself. |
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| Similarly, appeals to either form critical or redactional studies have not won a consensus. |
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| Having spoken to people about it the general consensus is that it is a good way to meet other like-minded people. |
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| Here was a political consensus that a progressive government could have championed. |
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| The general consensus seems to be that this particular aquatic adventure is too water logged for its own good. |
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| However, the NIH consensus panel notes that the benefits far outweigh the risks. |
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| There is still no general consensus about the preferability of paper to plastic. |
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| The following subcommittee reports are a product of this consensus process. |
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| The Canadian consensus consists of those views that sensitive, educated people assume will be held by other sensitive, educated people. |
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| The hostile consensus on him has, for the moment, given his factionalised party a veneer of unity under his leadership. |
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| Thus, values and norms were imposed through coercive instruments rather than consensus. |
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| At a first stage, a group coheres thanks to family bonds, religious consensus, and the leadership of an individual of outstanding capabilities. |
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| The consensus for the ethical conduct of human research gives primacy to individual human rights. |
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| Yet, predictably, there is no consensus across the political spectrum, just the usual bickering and farmyard squabbling. |
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| The meeting was in consensus on the roll out plan to implement the network early next year, subject to signing of the agreement. |
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| This happens in the case that the candidate sequence is identical to the most conserved nucleotide at every position of the consensus matrix. |
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| The consensus is that whosoever is behind these blasts, the intention is to create communal tension and spoil the peaceful atmosphere. |
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| Yet there is no consensus on the presence of Clovis bifaces in the Midwest or their typological affinities to Gainey bifaces. |
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| There is full political, parliamentarian and public consensus on EU and NATO membership in Bulgaria, Purvanov said. |
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| The general consensus of outsiders is that the town is a place of degenerates. |
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| They should enter into some negotiation with the claimers in the case and arrive at some consensus now. |
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| These are great accomplishments, achieved by peaceful consensus, something unprecedented in history. |
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| Because the deniers are so out of tune with this overwhelming scientific consensus, they have been forced to turn on climatology itself. |
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| In Afghanistan there is a NATO consensus that withdrawal is not an option and that more men and materiel will need to be deployed. |
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| Challenge the system with continuing high unemployment or the need to create a consensus when none exists, as over the treaty, and suddenly its frailty is exposed. |
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| The functionalist theory views increasing social integration, harmony and social consensus as a necessary outcome of the evolutionary development of society. |
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| It is necessary that we reach a consensus on such issues, and conduct research and training to develop practical procedures which can effectively deal with disasters. |
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| Due to the divergent stances of the member nations, the annual powwow had difficulty reaching consensus on major international security issues and resolving economic problems. |
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| The process of enshrining King as a consensus national hero has unfortunately entailed some cosmetic surgery on the actual man. |
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| A large body of literature reveals there is no consensus on whether direct collaboration between author and illustrator results in a better picture book. |
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| All the indicators are that any free consultation of the community would have revealed an overwhelming consensus for a restoration of the Stuart monarchy. |
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| There is consensus that air pollution is easier to control from large central sources such as electric power plants than from millions of individual vehicles. |
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| It has been tradition at the wto that all members agree to new members by consensus. |
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| Russian officials in the past have suggested that their membership into the wto could be approved without a consensus vote. |
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| In the wake of this fact comes the third and most obvious consensus point namely that the markets are being driven down by the slump in tech stock prices. |
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| The general consensus of opinion was it was one of the best of its kind. |
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| It is tempting for gay-rights advocates to imagine that a national majority is the same as a national consensus. |
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| We checked in each of the 72 lineages whether the original mutation had reverted to its ancestral wild-type state by performing consensus population sequencing. |
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| The professional consensus is that the responses, though not unproblematic, are meaningful and reasonably comparable among various groups of individuals. |
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| The Chairman noted that there was a general consensus that the Board should not change the scope of the definition to encompass the mushroom sector. |
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| The consensus leans toward forbidding it, though some people of knowledge think it permissible. |
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| The consensus among the legal establishment is that Wilson will not be indicted. |
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| Fifty years later, the Reagan consensus prevails, it seems to me, more so than Roosevelt consensus. |
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| While other spacefaring nations have promulgated their own standards for debris mitigation, there is, as of now, no international consensus position on this problem. |
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| People's attention spans have drooped a lot, it's pretty much the consensus, so you have to do stuff like that to keep it fresh. |
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| In a party without a frontrunner, and seemingly rudderless, Bush is the closest thing the GOP has to a consensus candidate. |
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| There is a lot of consensus in Zambia about the need to woo investment and induce growth in the economy, but this must be backed with concrete support measures. |
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| Significantly, her decision not to vote with the consensus view marked a break with tradition among those attending their first meeting and may signal an appetite for a fight. |
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| There is wide consensus among attorneys that adoptive parents can vacate an adoption if acts of fraud were committed. |
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| News stories like this one at Vox expressed the consensus view that we were now allying with Assad. |
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| Put simply, a scientific consensus has yet to emerge, and Marcus ignored the ongoing debate. |
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| Such now familiar terms as Orientalism and primitivism, while they mark the beginning of a consensus, are by no means completely defined or delimited. |
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| Over half a century later the medical community has not come to a consensus on whether the symptoms of andropause are truly a manifestation of testosterone deficiency. |
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| The need for consensus and placation is a particularly human perversion of science, but it happens all too often because office and personal politics make it necessary. |
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| Yet no intergovernmental consensus for radical change exists. |
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| I mean, people say the trial is itself proof that things have changed, that there is a consensus that these were terrible crimes and that someone must answer for them. |
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| Only 27 percent accept the scientific consensus that anthropogenic climate change is real. |
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| No global consensus exists on whether or how to screen nurslings or mothers for vitamin D deficiency or on how to prevent vitamin D deficiency among nurslings. |
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| After much thrashing around, the biotech industry is finally nearing consensus on what to call less expensive, generic-type alternatives to pricey biotech drugs. |
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| A recent consensus document suggests that the arm should not be extended behind the back or adducted in an extreme position for a substantial amount of time. |
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| We have kept everyone informed to make sure that we are all batting for Bolton, but they have thrown away an all-party consensus for a photo opportunity. |
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| By thumbing our nose at the world and dismissing the consensus views of the scientific community, we are scaring off that talent and sending it to our competitors. |
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| The unpalatable truth, which the cosy triumvirate of mainstream parties refuse to face, is that there is not, and never has been a liberal consensus in this country. |
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| There's a growing consensus among analysts and economists that China's austerity programme has successfully put the economy on a glide path to a soft landing. |
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| The judicial consensus in favor of the freedom to marry is unambiguous, bipartisan, and unprecedented. |
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| Prime ministers have been mostly puppets, elderly time-servers who give a higher priority to loyalty, secrecy and consensus than to principle, debate and leadership. |
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| The outcomes of congressional races and the presidential contest could further complicate attempts to achieve a consensus on addressing the fiscal cliff. |
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| While Bolshevism was a dictatorship of the proletariat, Nazism was a dictatorship with a voting consensus behind it. |
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| By breaking from the right-wing consensus in favor of unconditional bellicosity, I had gone rogue. |
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| It is vital that this problem should be confronted in the light of 21 st-century realities, rather than viewed through the old prism of leftish consensus. |
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| He's energizing his opponents and driving away moderates in droves because he is a right wing ideologue who refuses to make even the slightest concession to achieve consensus. |
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| There seems to be an undisputed consensus by all parties that Friday will be a day of black vengeance. |
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| He was also a master consensus builder, rarely suffering a dissenting vote on the Fed board, an achievement that projected a powerful sense of certainty. |
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| Bernanke is in the unenviable position of trying to run an organization where ideally, he wants consensus. |
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| Even though there was a certain amount of intra-allelic variation in intronic and third codon positions, an allele-specific DNA consensus sequence could be easily deduced. |
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| We succeeded in mustering a wall-to-wall consensus on Libya because Gaddafi is one of the most isolated rulers in the world. |
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| The title of chief was largely a matter of prestige, as authority was exercised by the consensus of those of high status, who would act as arbiters in dispute resolution. |
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| Back then, property was understood by universal consensus as a foundational cornerstone of human liberty and a life worth living. |
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| When a scientific truth arises, it is so because of observational and experimental consensus. |
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| It would be prudent to reach some kind of consensus soon, because when you collect-it-all, the next step is to automate-it-all. |
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| There appears to be a consensus that seeking to monopolise another's trade mark and other unfair practices would render an application invalid for bad faith. |
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| This puts into wistful perspective the developing consensus that we should do something about it. |
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| As long as they remain reliant on the multinational forces, it will be difficult to create a national consensus that will allow the elections to succeed. |
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| The consensus was that Broadwell might have made a great agent, maybe as good as humphries. |
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| And I think that you've got to have the kind of leadership on the ground that can do the back-room negotiations to produce a consensus to move toward that. |
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| We should oppose these attempts to force through a premature consensus. |
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| Most of what Aristotle says about mathematics is a polemic against Plato's views, and there is not much consensus among scholars on the scattered positive remarks he makes. |
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| And that judicial consensus mirrors the consensus we have grown in the hearts and minds of the American people. |
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| Accordingly, instead of mass media's big bulge of consensus and convention and conformity in the middle, the spectrum gets filled with all kinds of hinky stuff. |
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| The committees appear to have succeeded in achieving that elusive consensus on what needs to be done to dig Scottish education out of the Higher Still morass. |
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| Spiritualism, pan-animism, metempsychosis and reincarnation were at the radical end of a spectrum, but wide consensus existed for accepting evolution as a creed of progress. |
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| Though the industry had been deliberating at length over the crisis for long, they failed to evolve a consensus and ultimately the exhibitors had to step in to bell the cat. |
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| In the following pages, five leaders show how they build teams, forge consensus and measure performance to make security far more than a cost center. |
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| A partly degenerate consensus sequence was created from the Aspergillus and Penicillium sequences to evaluate the statistical significance of this alignment. |
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| A number of studies have examined patterns of body size distribution in benthos across or within systems, with little consensus toward general principles. |
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| The consensus was reflected in a report of a cabinet committee, comprising six ministers with major portfolios, set up in 1958 to review Land Commission policy. |
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| But the Milesian school of philosophers that Thales founded produced little consensus about the prote hyle or first matter that constituted everything. |
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| A solution, however, requires some consensus about what the malady is and how to treat it. |
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| Technology, psychology and common sense was always a much more viable combination and one decidedly easier to come by than consensus in the chambers of Parliament. |
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| The social consensus has changed hugely since the law was drafted. |
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| The trade magazines are unanimous in their consensus that Sony Classics is on a roll. |
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| A fairly unanimous consensus focusing on money as a means of exchange based on a monometallic standard and leading to a narrow definition of money is developed. |
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