Word: consensus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that "the test of a democratic regime in Africa might not be the actual presence of a second party, so much as whether the regime tolerated individualists." This is not necessarily doublethink. The one-party system is an effort to come to terms with an African tradition of tribal consensus in which the elders made universally accepted decisions. In such a context the concept of a "loyal opposition" is virtually meaningless...
Brown said that out of this new interpretation has grown a consensus among many Catholic scholars and clerics that the Church must meet all that is justified in the Protestant protests and thus neutralize them. The Catholics, Brown said, are now acting on the original Protestant demands for reform of the Pope's Curia, removal of the Papacy from politics, and revision of the Mass...
...most part, Johnson's bills received such overwhelmingly favorable action because there seemed to be a popular consensus for them. They also passed because Johnson knows how to get along with Congress better than any President before him-including his great hero Franklin Roosevelt. Johnson loves to recall how, as a young Congressman from Texas, he was befriended by F.D.R., who became "just like a daddy to me." As of this week-the 20th anniversary of Roosevelt's death-Daddy would have been proud...
Your reporter errs in saying that the report was "written by David D. Friedman '65 and Danny J. Boggs '65;" this mistake is certainly excusable, since it was made by a number of the speakers during the debate. In fact, the contents of the report were the consensus of the Vietnam policy Committee. The text was written by me and amended and then approved by the full committee. The report falled of unanimous approval by one vote, and there were no minority reports...
...There is an emerging consensus among the international community," notes Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, "that the creation of international liquidity, like the creation of domestic liquidity, should become a matter of deliberate decision." The debate now raging with regard to the future of the world monetary system will probably result in some revision...