"We're members of a very big campaigning group called the species survival network and we do believe we have a very wide consensus among groups on this particular issue, " he said.
His success was due partly to his grasp of detail, partly to his skill at consensus-building among competing groups.
But how can lawmakers and advocacy groups build a consensus with the dual aims of securing long-term solvency and modernizing the system?
Ayau says Hui Malama members believed they had consensus from the other three groups when they checked all 83 objects out of the museum, reburied them in the caves, and sealed up the entrance.
The groups did not reach consensus on how much the workers would be paid.
They're based on the emerging consensus we heard from all the groups with whom we spoke, including some of you who are victims of this god-awful occurrence -- ways to keep guns out of the wrong hands, as well as ways to take comprehensive action to prevent violence in the first place.
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Groups tend to discuss issues and make consensus decisions democratically, rather than defer to charismatic leaders, and there are many businesses and organizations formed as cooperatives.
Individuals participate in self organizing groups, collaborate frequently, and work toward consensus.
Mr. Cuomo's approach was designed to deprive "legislators of the ability to sow dissent among the groups and to hide behind a manufactured lack of consensus, " said a person familiar with the strategy.
In the weeks before the deadline, a rough consensus had emerged between two of the parliament's three main groups, the Shia Muslims and ethnic Kurds.
By this stage, efforts to find consensus among almost 200 delegations had given way to bargaining sessions among smallish groups of countries behind closed doors.
While there's growing consensus about the need to deal with flags carrying the symbols of illegal paramilitary groups, the flying of national flags remains - as the Belfast council dispute illustrates - difficult terrain.
Meanwhile, leaders of the nation's two opposition parties said if their groups win a majority in the elections, they will form a "consensus, " according to Wasif Syed, spokesman for the Pakistan People's Party -- Bhutto's party.
This effort appears to be one of, if not the only, such effort in the past decade or more in which various groups worked together over an extended period of time to see where such consensus may exist.
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The consensus view of the American National Academy of Sciences, the British Royal Society and the respective groups of every advanced nation on climate change cannot be ignored while we wait for an unobtainable golden thread of evidence.
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