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Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.
Anything to make a difference and to seek consensus on an issue is something that I feel strongly about.
The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.
The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.
It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
There was a general consensus to go for the nuclear test. The whole nation wanted it, and it was done properly.
There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.
We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.
I always admired the tolerance of my family - you know, that they tolerated my dissension for the family consensus.
The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
From the Founding Era onward, there was strong consensus about the centrality of religious liberty in the United States.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward.
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.
What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
It's not really a popular consensus to sing Sinatra - which I love! And I just think it's so cool that he disliked rock n' roll so much.
The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.
My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.
By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
The unraveling of America's long mid-century domestic consensus, which ran from about 1941 to 1966, had begun earlier, under Lyndon B. Johnson.
I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.
I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
There is a growing consensus in the private sector that companies can and should take action to address the problem of gun violence in our country.
I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.
I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.
There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to a consensus of what makes a woman strong.
'Unjustly Maligned' is a neat idea for a podcast. Antony Johnston invites a believer to make the case for a cultural artefact that consensus tends to deride.
As a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, I'm committed to finding consensus on legislation to address our environmental and energy challenges.
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view - in its excessiveness, in its extremities.
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.