The absolute best-case scenario for Cooke, according to an informal consensus of attending scouts, would be late first round.

Officials say an informal consensus is forming that France will reduce, though not eliminate, its nuclear power plants.

Decisions to change global drug regulations are usually reached by informal consensus; without such agreement, reform is virtually impossible.

The appointment of a successor by the King was usually done with some form of informal consensus among members of the royal family.

In recent weeks, the search committee, through informal consensus, had essentially focused on three other candidates as finalists.

Unlike the film industry, which regulates all American releases with a single ratings board, television has always been governed by informal consensus.

Decisions were reached through informal consensus, and strong dissent was expressed by abandoning a residential band.

By then, as if by informal national consensus, 9/11 had become universal shorthand for the whole event.

Positions of leadership were usually conferred by informal consensus, and they were the natural choice.

Afterward, the informal consensus of the leftish contingent was summed up in this exchange: