Word Finder - consensus

definition

A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.

definition

General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.

example

After years of debate over the best wine to serve at Thanksgiving, no real consensus has emerged.

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Average projected value.

example

a financial consensus forecast

In general, the learned consensus dubbed the whole business with indifference.

It took several hours for the jury to come to a consensus.

We need to come to a consensus quickly about who will present the data.

It is not strange that there is a growing consensus of opinion that Paul is the author.

It was difficult to come to a consensus about this particular issue.

Did he think I was the tipster, solely because the public consensus appointed the psychic a female?

A lot of sounds-like, seems-like conversation followed until consensus settled on Mulligan.

The votes are in, and the family consensus is to vacation in Mexico.

The general consensus is that the world came into existence through a Big Bang.

This ascription was first made by Henry Bradshaw, the librarian of Cambridge University; but the consensus of critical opinion is now against it.

Our consensus is that he must be fired for his lack of competence.

In such cases, reaching consensus was not an issue.

We hope to highlight relevant research and present an informed consensus opinion.

An NIH Consensus Conference concluded that routine mammography was not indicated universally for women in their forties [1] .

There is diverse opinion and a lack of consensus about management of preterm birth due to the lack of clinical and scientific data.

Taking the general consensus of the observations it would seem that its light must be so much brighter than that of the band as to imply the action of some different cause.

There was an overwhelming consensus among managers that staff shortages and inappropriate midwifery establishments underlay many of the problems that they faced.

These fundamental issues of identity and political outlook unify catholic churchgoers even tho in other respects there is little to indicate consensus.

Experience see chart page which govern short-term a consensus at.

The P&O, however, would need to be adopted by consensus.

We had to take the time to cultivate the habits of dialog and consultation, the art of deciding by consensus.

Southern's antipathy to elaboration becomes most damaging, however, when she rides roughshod over recent scholarly consensus.

Beat routsis said a princess Diana but in the consensus of truthwas.

While these may seem abstract possibilities the existence of a false consensus or a false dissensus could seriously affect the functioning of an organization.

There's nothing wrong with dissent, but it is just that - dissent from the consensus!

Thus ' with few dissenters, we have successfully reached a consensus in favor of the chemiosmotic theory ' .

Consent engages the whole electorate, consensus involves only a majority.

The Washington Consensus was, I think, a shallow and self-serving policy menu opportunistically foisted upon poor countries by the rich.

It has played a significant role in building consensus among the Northeastern states required to use reformulated gasoline.

There is no consensus on how acute herpes zoster (shingles) should be managed in general practice.

Its amino acid sequence shows much greater homology to consensus sequences derived from protein serine/threonine kinases than to the consensus for protein tyrosine kinases.

There is no consensus on the management of subclinical hyperthyroidism.

This book is an attempt to break the stifling consensus about arts policy today, and challenge the increasing instrumentalism of policy-makers.

The consensus opinion appeared to be that nurses want the RCN to campaign for a decent living wage for everyone.

Yugoslavia, too, has owed its relative longevity more to Western liberal well-wishers that to the true consensus of its disparate peoples.

What we have is complete consensus on an unbridled free market economy.

All Bush can do at this point is to maintain consensus on blocking the sale of war materiel to Iraq.

It is virtually impossible to define fixed parameters to judge the level of service provided, but a consensus should be reached nevertheless.

The Pastry In Cornwall, there's no consensus, as to what type of pastry makes the best pasty.

Like Peel she was a provincial, but quite unlike him she despised consensus politics.

It actually predates the pyramids of Egypt and the current consensus is that it was an astronomical observatory.

This is due to a neoliberal consensus that stifles opportunity for change, resulting in growing radicalism.

Laundry The general consensus is using a non-biological washing product and avoiding fabric softeners is appropriate.

Overall there is no consensus that automated blood pressure measuring devices are less accurate; however all the studies used different automated sphygmomanometers.

By January 1999 consensus was again stymied, heralding three more years of unbroken famine.

Channel 4's recent Top Ten series was, by common consensus, the best Saturday night telly for ages.

Free market triumphalism was abroad and the liberal consensus seemed to be sealed.

Neither one nor the other won it; we sought a consensus and chose Panama ', he said " .

But the greatness of the art is, like its subject, worlds away from material impressions; and a wide consensus regards Wagner's last work as his loftiest, both in music and poetry.

But there is not yet the same degree of consensus as to the relations between the Old Syriac and the Diatessaron.