By and large, however, he said a rough social consensus continued to make such acts repellent to most.

A rough consensus finally emerged in favor of encouraging such factories.

Since we first took a look at the Kindle 2.0 rumors over eight months ago, a rough consensus seems to have emerged.

If ever there was a moment of rough consensus about education, this is it.

What we present here, then, is a rough consensus.

By the late 1990s economists had reached a rough consensus.

Like it or not, everyone seems to have reached a rough consensus.

The rough consensus has been that the Federal Reserve would not raise interest rates again soon.

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

The village agreed, reaching a decision in the traditional way, by rough consensus, not vote.