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Four centuries ago, the consensus, in Western Europe at least, was that good and even adequate government in this fallen world was inevitably a rarity.
On the contrary, it was the general consensus among investors and advisers that Facebook was too large, with too much potential for growth and not nearly enough capacity to protect adequately the personal information of the platform’s millions of users.
The Tragic Cost of Being UnscientificPRINCETON – Throughout his tenure as South Africa’s president, Thabo Mbeki rejected the scientific consensus that AIDS is caused by a virus, HIV, and that antiretroviral drugs can save the lives of people who test positive for it.
With one out of four mortgages in the US under water – more owed than the house is worth – there is a growing consensus that the only way to deal with the mess is to write down the value of the principal (what is owed).
There are serious dangers in throwing at developing countries a Washington-consensus view of economic policy, even if this consensus is now refurbished with new international codes and standards and with "second-generation reforms."
The tone set by Murdoch, however, suggests that a consensus on sustainable, inclusive growth will be hard to achieve.
Yet, despite the relative youth of this research, a clear consensus has emerged: climate change – for which human activity is significantly, though not exclusively, responsible – now threatens our way of life, so we must develop the means to combat it.
There is a growing general global consensus that Europe is a pompous old has-been.
Most international frameworks covering embryo research call for engagement with the public to establish a broad societal consensus.
As John Williamson, who coined the term, put it in 2002, these measures “are motherhood and apple pie, which is why they commanded a consensus.”
But the consensus view at the most recent meeting of the FDIC’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee (of which I am a member) was that this claim should not be taken seriously.
A latter-day Keynes is nowhere to be found, and no Bretton Woods-style global consensus to reform central banking is on the horizon.
By bringing recalcitrant minorities into a new security consensus, Russia helped transform local ethnic conflict into a constructive process of nation-building.
But the consensus that Vladimir Putin has created in Russia since 2000 is more than a question of interests; it is a value-based reality.
Putin’s consensus made it possible to resolve both problems without foreign assistance and interference.
This June, the IMF’s Executive Board did just that, reaching a broad consensus on updating surveillance to make it more focused and effective.
Governance systems and constitutional structures differ in the extent to which they require broad consensus for official action, or to change policy direction in response to shocks or shifting conditions.
Others support constrained government on the grounds that it protects everyone from waste, rent-seeking, and interference with freedom of choice, and that, when needed, inspired leadership can build the required consensus to address changing circumstances.
Leaders must now forge a consensus around it.
But inertia is considerable, if only because consensus is required to change the rules.
As for the Syrian "Street," that amorphous mixture of average citizens and popular consensus, not only did it lack any sympathy for the intellectuals, it also failed to show any systematic interest in domestic politics.
To betray this consensus runs the risk of mobilizing people on behalf of other, more domestically-oriented concerns.
Three different coalitions have led India’s government since 1991, including one (from 1996 to 1998) that included Communists, and none has departed from the new “New Delhi” consensus.
There will be no consensus answer to that question.
As the British journal Nature argued in 1992, a broad scientific consensus holds that “the same physical and biological laws govern the response of organisms modified by modern molecular and cellular methods and those produced by classical methods....[Therefore] no conceptual distinction exists between genetic modification of plants and microorganisms by classical methods or by molecular techniques that modify DNA and transfer genes.”
To scuttle efforts to build an international consensus against its unilateralism, China initiates and maintains generous aid and investment arrangements with countries in need.
But President Barack Obama and his congressional allies have rejected the consensus that government should be only a last resort for those in need, in favor of greater dependence, for both individuals and firms, on entitlement programs and other public spending, targeted tax breaks, regulations, and loans.
Tsipras must lead the way by building a broad consensus.
"Political solutions" should be found, which really means that the European method of consensus building without firm action should be applied to the world at large.
Indeed, there seems to be little consensus on how to move forward.
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