Some authors have argued that any public support for geoengineering may weaken the fragile political consensus to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

For now, though, the ambitious objective of flattening Iraq appears to be very much outside the scope of the fragile international consensus.

They had to build on that first fragile consensus.

Already, the complexities of these evolving relationships among black leaders are threatening the fragile consensus on how to proceed.

But the fragile consensus is being strained.

It undermined the fragile consensus reached among Bosnia's three ethnic groups.

Politicians were not prepared to risk the fragile social consensus by allowing troubled firms to go to the wall.

A harsh way of looking at things, and terrifying in its implications for today's fragile consensus of tolerance.

UN sanctions are applied with a ferocity that tears apart the fragile consensus of the region.

The following table contains the thirty roots or so (out of thousands) that represent a fragile consensus of present research.