1.   Bloomberg, who has called for racial harmony, consensus building and grassroots activism by neighborhoods, drew on traditionally conservative themes when discussing his fiscal policies.

2.   Building a consensus on how to solve that problem is the hard part, because it would most likely require more taxes or fewer benefits or both.

3.   Former Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa said his is a message of consensus building.

4.   Has the artist, writer or sales representative demonstrated self control, consensus building, and an understanding of the customer?

5.   His consensus building, plus the spurt in jobs and economic growth, led to a unanimous decision.

6.   In his first memorandum to executives, he advocated a corporate culture of confrontation over consensus building.

7.   It suggests a closing off of the possibilities of growth and transformation and a repudiation of the process of consensus building.

8.   Lee, according to many who have known him during a long and prestigious career as a civil rights attorney in Los Angeles, is committed to consensus building.

9.   She said the state failed to take part in the consensus building needed to figure out how to make chinook stocks in the Pacific Northwest stronger.

10.   The choice of a new secretary general is usually carried out behind closed doors, in a process of quiet consensus building.