1.   Most Decisions are reached by general consensus with a minimum of formal voting.

2.   Any decisions that prove too difficult to make in consensus with Russia can be pulled off the agenda at the request of any member nation, the officials said.

3.   At that point, he said, he would seek to build a consensus with public health leaders and elected officials.

4.   Bush would be wise to develop a consensus with his Mexican counterpart on a broad array of hemispheric issues.

5.   But many credit his ability to build consensus with defusing tensions and homing energy on crooks instead of other law enforcement officials.

6.   But while Bush firmly defended his positions, he reached no consensus with other leaders, from British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin.

7.   Chinese intellectuals have reached a consensus with the party on the issue of stability.

8.   Green was describing an emerging Democratic Party consensus with uncharacteristic understatement.

9.   He follows the Israeli consensus with the view that Israel must retain the Jordan Valley, the Judea Desert and a wide corridor to Jerusalem.

10.   His ability to build consensus with the four other commissioners is critical.