She had a reputation for pushing through major changes without building consensus, then leaving town when the protest grew deafening.

"My approach has been to be, not a dictator, but a facilitator, bringing people together and building consensus," he said in an interview.

Gale is a former attorney general of Colorado with a reputation for building consensus on divisive issues.

The President or the staff at the secretariat can induce talks on specific issues and contribute to building consensus.

Becoming a forum for building consensus within that movement.

He preferred to work behind closed doors, building consensus and offering little accountability to the outside world.

He was highly active in building consensus between the growing labour movement and the world of middle-class liberalism.

But outside analysts say that the insistence on building consensus makes it hard to reach decisions.

I have worked for decades to protect this vital resource by building consensus and including all stakeholders.

This revolution has to be slow, and built from the inside, building consensus as it goes.