This failure to reach a public consensus can do nothing but damage for the profession.

Surveys suggest that there's no public consensus behind any specific strategy to keep the program solvent.

But I'm out here on your ship, and there's no public consensus protecting me.

Such decisions must be built upon public consensus, not the opinion of any single elected official.

Even though this might offer the only sustainable high quality social care likely to gain public consensus.

Members of the charter commission are clearly concerned about the difficulties of building a public consensus.

"Like the witch doctor," she notes, "the media thus transform private suspicions into a public consensus."

If intelligence tactics are not supported by a public consensus of Americans, they can backfire, she said.

Van Alen is now poised to take a more active role in building public consensus for the values it represents.

They are moving into areas like taxpayer financing of abortions for poor women, where there is much less public consensus and support.