consensus (exact matches only)

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.

One narrative: she is generally colored, female, and a single mother, reduced by circumstances to tireless depression and public "aid," working off the books in one low-paying job after another in an attempt to support her children--children she should not have had, according to tax-paying, law-abiding public consensus.

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.

If that was in fact the case, it would indicate that ideological consensus among the makers of the Jewish canon was less a matter of party-line agreement than one might imagine, that the canon makers were willing to tolerate a certain spectrum of outlooks, or perhaps felt that it was salutary for the consecrated literature to incorporate some dialectic elements of autocritique.

Of course, no one in the British government saw the Indian insurrection or the Stamp Act riots in that way; nor did they appreciate the significance of the fact that both the Indians and the colonists, groups always more disposed to compete internally than to find common ground among themselves, had shown a sudden, unexpected capacity to achieve consensus.

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.

Such steely national consensus is impressive.

Donald Trump received a unanimous consensus regarding the general impression of Nick Warnock’s leadership versus salesman imbalance when the group was individually asked who they would get rid of.

The Donald could not argue with the majority consensus and so informed Nick that his ride was over.

So officially, the consensus was off by a mere 149,000 and, unofficially, by 249,000.

Those people who knew about him sometimes wondered why this dark-minded Jew, fully modern in his view of history as a nightmare, showed none of the stylistic experimentation that, according to the mid-century consensus, was the natural outcome of such a view, and the defining trait of the early modernist novel.

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