Those in favor of a single treaty could not gain sufficient consensus.

But even he seemed to recognize that he would not win his point, concluding, "I hope you will help us gain consensus."

Concurrent with the exposition, a number of meetings and conferences were held to gain consensus on international standards.

In such a climate, it is easier to gain national consensus and to minimize and control domestic opposition.

Unable to gain consensus across departments to an agreed single Reference Architecture.

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

But in the end such a text proved to be the only way to gain consensus.

The moderator leads the team through a series of iterative steps to gain consensus on the estimates.

The Harvard criteria gradually gained consensus towards what is now known as brain death.

Outside of defense issues however, the federal power over domestic "internal improvements", away from the coasts and among the states, did not gain political consensus.