Inner-directed people are those whose personal consumption and style-of-life decisions are driven not by peer pressure or societal consensus, but by individual feelings and tastes.

A Growing Reliance on Life Terms American enthusiasm for life sentences reflects an uneasy societal consensus.

They claimed enforcement would not depend on the police but rather on public education and societal consensus.

Furthermore, there is no societal consensus that these interests should be protected either.

My fear is that if we don't get a broad societal consensus behind this document, the whole thing could unravel down the road.

"It is an issue, because we have not yet come to a societal consensus on the moral or legal status of the embryo."

During Crises, great peril provokes a societal consensus, an ethic of personal sacrifice, and strong institutional order.

There was a rough societal consensus about how to handle these problems: Keep them quiet.

I hope these developments will result in a strong political and societal consensus to pursue EU reforms with renewed vigour and energy.

Generally, in the European Union there is a broad societal consensus on organ donation for the purpose of transplantation.