6 sentences with 'consensus'
Example sentences and phrases with the word consensus and other words derived from it.
• « Historians have now reached a consensus that the deadliest epidemic in medieval and early modern history began in the Mongol Khanates and spread westwards: the Black Death, or simply 'the plague', of the 14th century. »
• « The consensus in the 1530s was that, regardless of where they came from, Native Americans were blank slates to be conquered for their own good. »
• « After his death in 1658, the English Parliament decided to re-establish the monarchy and the official power of the Church of England (which took until 1660 to happen), essentially because there was no consensus on what could be done differently. »
• « The US "domino effect" theory of the spread of communism from one country to another seemed entirely plausible at the time, and across the American political spectrum there was a strong consensus that communism could only be kept at bay through the application of military force. »
• « While interpretations of events since the turn of the 21st century will necessarily vary, what seems clear is that both the post-war consensus between the centre-left and the centre-right is anything but a dead letter. »
• « What the Devil looks like is a question on which there is no consensus. The ancients synthesised it in the serpent, a reptile that enjoys a very bad press, and the dragon. »