The European Council is a rough, swaggering sort of grouping. It operates not by finding cosy consensus, but by reaching grubby compromise after lots of camp-forming, bribery and bullying.

欧盟委员会充斥着一群态度粗暴、狂妄自大之人，他们并不是通过友好的共识来进行管理，而是经过拉帮结伙、行贿受贿和恃强凌弱达成肮脏的妥协。

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And every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing a new home, honey bees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building.

每年，为了选择一个新家，蜜蜂进行集体实况调查、激烈的争辩、达成共识，为此需要赌上生死。

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While more countries get to voice their views if the rules are forged in the WTO than in the OECD, the flipside is that finding consensus could be even more difficult.

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By not even grudgingly acknowledging that Candidate Obama did the same in 2008, Republicans continue to produce presidential nominees more concerned about the idea bundle than finding consensus and even triangulating, which Obama is now poised to do.

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told leaders of political parties that he is committed to finding a consensus on an anti-corruption bill.

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