It marks the end of the 1960s liberal, social consensus on law and order.
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At base the social consensus against institutionalizing the mentally ill makes it virtually impossible to remove potentially dangerous psychotics from society.
Congress can always change Doma later as more states adopt gay marriage, so this way-station makes sense as the social consensus evolves.
Yet even as we reach a new social consensus about marriage's importance, marriage seems to have become increasingly elusive, difficult, and uncertain.
"The risk is that joblessness becomes persistent, which could undermine the social consensus that is underpinning the economic and fiscal adjustments, " said the OECD.
This lack of social consensus has paralyzed the political system.
In opposing the commission's recommendations last year, panel member Rev Canon Dr James Woodward argued there was not a sufficient ethical, moral and social consensus behind calls for change.
The misuse of government power to vilify private donors is not only bad politics, but it also diminishes the prestige of the Oval Office and damages our social consensus.
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Such health-care changes must be grounded in a social consensus built over time, and the public may become receptive considering the convulsions that ObamaCare will start to inflict later this year.
This has led to an exemplary social consensus which spares the country such scourges as industrial action while serving as a shining example to other countries for its free-market, decentralised approach.
Social consensus does not prevent distribution of nefarious apps.
While most economists advocate taxation and regulation to deal with these consequences, I prefer (when feasible) to rely on norms, which draw their power from social consensus rather than from the political process.
And the old socialist "social market" consensus in Germany is about to suffer a fatal blow.
Attitudes to the big state have swung to and fro, from the liberal attack on patronage in the 19th century to the embrace of the social-democratic consensus after the second world war to Thatcherite privatisation in the 1980s.
Indeed, shortly before the police rebellion the Ecuadorian Congress passed a set of social laws after reaching a consensus that included a dialogue with different social and political sectors.
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The general consensus on social media appeared to be that Beyonce's high-wattage half-time performance was mostly likely to blame for the blackout.
What if we had a national consensus that Social Security and Medicare were not personal insurance, the way we have sold those programs to ourselves for four generations?
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There is currently a bipartisan consensus that the Social Security and Medicare budget surpluses will not be touched in spending and tax decisions.
The new, emerging Republican consensus regarding entitlement reform and social safety nets reflects precisely that.
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However, while marketers have a clear vision when it comes to mobile, the same cannot be said for social media where marketers lack the same clear consensus on how to best utilize this new medium.
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In spite of isolation on the rebate, a real opportunity is emerging for consensus and progress on EU economic and social reform.
However, that still leaves plenty of choices, many of which will require a new consensus to be built outside existing categories of social or political debate.
Analysis of mentoring schemes around the world, conducted by the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI), found "there is no consensus that mentoring has a significant positive effect on mentees".
Eventually, a new social contract and economic model will emerge but until we have a consensus about what the contract is, we will not know what laws will support it.
Under the stifling, consensus-based post-war system, based on a Social Democrat-People's Party duopoly, mentioning the issue smacked of bad manners.
The belief in a consensus among labour, industry and government underlies Germany's social-market economy, the model shaped in the 1950s to ensure social harmony while production forged ahead.
And when social impact, responsibility and philanthropy come into the picture, was the general consensus, these answers begin to change.
There is a general consensus in the world of business that companies must engage in corporate social responsibility in giving back to their communities and their consumers.
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An old but creaking system of consensus, the lingering loyalty of bosses and employees to an unaffordable social-welfare model, and a web of constitutional checks and balances designed to prevent even the most fleeting thought of another tyranny, have all made it extraordinarily hard to carry out reform in Germany.
"A social experiment as radical as same-sex marriage should not be attempted without democratic consensus, " he wrote.
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