An international standards body is working to develop a consensus agreement on the definition of Do Not Track by June.
Congress got itself in this mess because a few dozen self-styled tea partiers have refused since last summer to help build a consensus agreement on either short-term stimulus or deficit reduction.
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The Assembly could reach a consensus agreement, such as postponing the decision, rather than forcing a vote because, as Professor Heymann puts it, "nobody wants to see the World Health Organization lose power" if its rulings are ignored.
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In some cases, the consensus estimate calculated this way may not be in agreement with consensus information on the ADR, and that's because the two instruments may not be followed by the same group of analysts.
But last weekend, ASEAN's consensus style produced agreement during a one-day informal summit of the seven members in Jakarta.
Rival Lebanese leaders have been unable to reach agreement on a consensus candidate despite intense mediation efforts by European envoys and the U.N. secretary general.
Consensus (or at least broad agreement) and compromise are really the only ways to effect long-lasting change.
Mr Henry said the regionalisation was a move to take attention away from the cuts and was a "shotgun marriage rather than an agreement based on a consensus".
Because the WTO operates by consensus, the developing countries knew their agreement was vital for a new round to be launched.
The team also applied their method to the Pentateuch, and were able to verify the general scholarly classification of those books into Priestly and non-Priestly sources with over 90% agreement with the current scholarly consensus.
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There is no consensus on the precise impact, but there is general agreement that the shift in approach will almost certainly be a significant hit to the bottom line.
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Other speakers made impassioned pleas for global consensus on a way forward, warning that failure to reach agreement would mean disaster.
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Running alongside this near-universal consensus on Iran's nuclear intentions was a commensurately broad agreement on the question of how the regime could best be stopped from realizing those intentions.
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Regev told the newspaper he believed there was international consensus that the neighborhoods would remain under Israeli control in any final status agreement.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller told the BBC cross-party talks, which have so far failed to reach an agreement, would continue as it was "important to get consensus" on this.
India now needs to negotiate a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and win the consensus of the Nuclear Suppliers' Group so that the Bush administration can present the deal to Congress for a final vote before the end of 2007.
Again, we -- I think Susan Rice outlined a consensus proposal that the P5-plus-1 have worked on for many months, after the agreement and proposal that was discussed by the Iranians, the Turks and the Brazilians.
The first step of reaching a bipartisan consensus in my experience, it certainly was true in the 1980s and the 1990s, was to have an agreement on the shape of the problem.
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