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Now the fiscal consensus of the 1990s is under sustained attack worldwide.
Moreover, if there is such a thing as a Tunisian “model” of democratic revolution, its distinctiveness consists in its evolutionary character: the state administration has continued to function, and a cross-party consensus has emerged around basic social and economic policies.
And given that France, it now seems clear, has not benefited from loose policy, Macron should be able to forge a consensus on cutting taxes and expenditures.
For three decades, the consensus on the need for market reforms and sound public finances has been strong enough to overcome opposition in small countries (Greece) and outlast procrastination in large ones (France).
Absent a shared consensus on the sanctity of rules, there are not many possibilities.
Instead, the new US administration should help to create a broad multilateral framework for the region, one aimed at building a genuine consensus on the goal of achieving Afghan stability by addressing the legitimate sources of Pakistan’s insecurity while strengthening opposition to disruptive Pakistani behavior.
Until the boom’s end, consensus forecasts predicted that the bonanza would continue.
The consensus view is rather that of William McChesney Martin, who served as US Federal Reserve Chairman from 1951 to 1970: a good central bank prevents speculative excess by “taking away the punchbowl before the party really gets going.”
Though there is a consensus that the retirement age should be raised from 60 to 65, there is strong resistance to cutting benefits.
The emerging consensus in India in support of greater rights and freedoms for women, while certainly causing some upheaval and adjustment (especially within the growing middle classes) has not yet – and might never – poison the basic trust and warmth between men and women.
The consensus is now that Brazil will fall into recession.
In 2000, growing political pressure finally led to a consensus between the German government and energy companies, which agreed to limit the life span of nuclear-power plants to 32 years.
In the 1780’s, a new consensus against such measures emerged.
The ECB does not publish voting records and seeks consensus at the meetings of its General Council.
In testimony before the UK's House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research, one "expert" actually stated that not only were adult stem cells just as promising as embryonic stem cells (untrue, according to the prevailing scientific consensus) but they were even better - more versatile, more malleable.
Gaining consensus in China is a glacial process that will not be accomplished in a single speech.
Its strength is that it has preserved an idea of itself as one land embracing many – a country that endures differences of caste, creed, color, culture, conviction, costume, and custom, yet still rallies around a democratic consensus.
That consensus is the simple principle that, in a democracy, it is not necessary to agree – except in terms of how to disagree.
The reason that India, despite predictions of its imminent disintegration, has survived the stresses that have beset it during more than six decades of independence, is that it has maintained a consensus on how to manage without consensus.
Writing with colleague Robert Kagan in the July/August issue of the leading US foreign policy journal Foreign Affairs, Kristol not only welcomes the return to active US international involvement, he dismisses what has been done so far as based not on a strategic vision but merely on "a tepid consensus."
Who can drive consensus on a multilateral response to climate change?
Difficult as it is for seven countries to agree on anything, imagine the challenge of building consensus among 20.
Nevertheless, a broad consensus has emerged on a number of issues.
A second area of consensus has emerged from frequent debates on the potential conflict between nominal and real economic convergence between the EU accession countries and the current member states.
Was he not a hard-core member of the “Greenspan consensus,” which held that it was not the Fed’s responsibility to look out for bubbles, whether of asset prices or credit, and that it should limit itself to mopping up after the event?
I share this consensus view.
Finding the Policy ExitNEW YORK – There is a general consensus that the massive monetary easing, fiscal stimulus, and support of the financial system undertaken by governments and central banks around the world prevented the deep recession of 2008-2009 from devolving into Great Depression II.
A related topic also has its roots in the Lisbon summit: the alliance’s attempt to find a new consensus on the role of nuclear weapons.
The EU’s Small LeadersThe defeat of the EU’s Constitutional Treaty in referendums in France and the Netherlands has, it seems, given rise to a new consensus that further enlargement of the Union should be slowed down, or even stopped.
Policy changes require consensus within the Politburo, especially the Standing Committee.
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