It wasn't long ago that bipartisan and international consensus centered on insulating the Internet from regulation.
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This was in tune with the international consensus, but it was nonetheless perceived as imperious.
He will continue these consultations to build international consensus for strong measures in the days to come.
The State Department is said to favor narrowly targeting al Qaeda to keep an international consensus together.
And fifth and finally, we are building an international consensus to support peace and stability in South Asia.
That's the point of this broad international consensus behind the sanctions regime.
As you know, Ambassador Rice and other Obama administration officials were actively engaged in an effort to try to build international consensus.
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The second major challenge in developing useful LEIs is achieving international consensus.
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There is no international consensus on the minutiae of diplomatic privilege.
There is no disputing the fact that Mr. Bush has adopted policies at odds with what passes for an international consensus on a number of topical issues.
That echoes an international consensus that maternal deaths are preventable in most cases and that maternal morbidity can be foreseen and addressed long before the mother gives birth.
As the network of participating countries grows, "it may be that 'bank-secrecy' jurisdictions feel increasing pressure to move toward a growing international consensus on information exchange, " Mr. West added.
Pentagon officials have said repeatedly the U.S. will seek an international consensus to respond to Iraq's defiance, and that military action is unlikely while diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis continue.
The new international consensus on corruption is a beginning.
However, White House officials and supporters in the arms-control community say the efforts are reinvigorating an international consensus against nuclear proliferation, and shifting international attitudes toward outliers, such as North Korea and Iran.
By any objective measure, Israel's greatest diplomatic challenge for the past three years and two months has been to build an international consensus around the need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
"The rapid growth of worldwide electronic commerce and the lack of international consensus on restrictions will further isolate these countries and make it difficult for them to continue these policies, " the report said.
Hence the need for genuine dialogue, and Hoggart remained hopeful that, despite its occasional failings, UNESCO would play a leading role as a conduit for intergovernmental diplomacy and, ultimately, international consensus on issues of global relevance.
Frustrated by the lack of international consensus on Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has had talks this week with President Obama in Washington where he was expected to call for a more assertive stance.
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The roadmap he is carrying in his briefcase is designed to reassure Washington's Arab allies that the Israeli-Palestinian issue has not been forgotten - and indeed that there is an international consensus over the way forward.
"It seems like Mr Cameron is going to beat the rush because international consensus seems to be that reform is heading in the right direction and the way the west should engage with Myanmar is changing, " he said.
There is now an international consensus on the measures needed to halt the immediate crisis: Massive bond buying by the European Central Bank, the direct recapitalization of banks by bailout funds and the creation of common euro-zone bonds.
It recommends building an international consensus on the differential pricing of patented pharmaceuticals, meaning that poor countries would have access to expensive drugs at the cost of manufacture, rather than paying the far higher rates charged in rich countries.
But even as the Security Council has condemned the piracy with Resolution 1838, close to 1, 100 words of the usual mush, slush and gush, an informal international consensus for action outside the fatuous auspices of the UN may finally be emerging.
We are very heartened in general by the international consensus that has been created here very rapidly in condemning the actions of the Libyan regime and the brutalization of the Libyan people by the Libyan government, and that includes obviously AFRICOM.
New York: United Nations, that in preparation for the United Nations Financing for Development (FfD) world conference concluded, "there is a genuine need to establish, by international consensus, stable and contractual new sources of multilateral finance, " to wit, international taxes and fees.
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Responding to Mr Osborne's attack for the government, Treasury minister Angela Eagle said the shadow chancellor had "missed another opportunity to admit the Tories have made a fundamental error of judgment in failing to support the growing international consensus that governments need to invest to stimulate their economies during the global downturn".
These and other figures have offered a common assessment -- and a common prescription: German endorsement of the Croat and Slovene declarations of independence would grievously complicate efforts to end the fighting and, therefore, Germany must continue to be bound by an international consensus that denies such recognition for the foreseeable future.
That is why, working with the Russians and the Chinese and other nations on the Security Council, and broadly at the United Nations, why there is such international consensus about the absolute need for the Iranians to abide by their obligations, to forsake their nuclear weapons ambitions, to demonstrate verifiably that they can reassure the world that they do not seek to acquire nuclear weapons.
"Recognizing the international scientific consensus that BSE (Mad Cow Disease) is a disease that is not detected in young animals, there isn't any nation in the world that requires 100-percent testing for BSE, " the statement said.
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