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Snyder also will retain his influence on draft day; a three- member committee of Gibbs, Cerrato and Snyder will arrive at a consensus for each selection.

It was nearly a decade after the Vietnam War before Lin's design could tap into a unconscious consensus of how we might remember that tragedy.

But Dr Strangelove epitomised the fleeting moment of the LBJ consensus.

Since then, however, both the surplus and the grudging consensus that led to it have vanished.

Science appealed to Jung because it seemed to offer some hope of a cure for the dividedness of his self; science kept alive the possibility that somewhere there was a consensus about what life was like, that somewhere and somehow there could be agreement about things.

But that doesn't mean we won't form potent consensus.

(p 227) Nation-building through inclusiveness and consensus are his greatest gifts to posterity.

By a Versacorp consensus, at the evil Board Room, Sam appeared destined for the ash heap.

He promised to "reach out across the partisan divide", to "build consensus" in "a new spirit of cooperation" and "end the bitterness and wrangling in Washington".

As the tears began, he felt the shiver of approval, of consensus, on his back.

Normally, we all would have gone together on the twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth, but Helen's father had just been operated on for a tumor in his leg, and the family consensus was that she and the boys should leave as quickly as possible.

Why would a book that either rejects doctrinal consensus or pays no attention to doctrine be taken into the supposedly doctrinal canon?The two most plausible explanations — literary power and sheer popularity — in part overlap, in part complement each other.

Dennis Kucinich's volunteers — smart misfits who live in a co-op and make decisions by consensus — oddly get along best with the John Edwards folks, who are preppy, racially diverse, good-looking Southern jocks.

However, analysts took comfort from yesterday’s pre-tax profit figures from Kesa, the Comet and Darty chain spun off from Kingfisher last year, which at £179 million were more than 4 per cent above consensus expectations.

Policy moved out of the agency mists, Mr. Clarke's world, and was now in the realm of public and political consensus.

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