We have not yet reached a consensus.


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We've reached a general consensus, but we certainly haven't reached a recommendation.
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We just haven't reached our potential yet. We haven't reached Max Q yet.
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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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We don't see the industry has reached equilibrium yet.
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We have a right to life, not on it.
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We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day ...
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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day w...
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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day w...
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We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.
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I am no longer in the place I was in but I have not yet reached the place I want be in.
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We have not reached the level of (vaccination) preparedness that we should have,
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This is not a livable place. We do not have water yet. We do not have power yet. All we have is a me...
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than ...
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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
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He's getting better, but he's not there yet.
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This fight's not over yet.
DICK DEGUERIN
There is not much to say yet,
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The target was not reached and all we have left is a big hurt,
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We have reached a historic point,
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What we have heard from our pilots and the other pilots around, roughly 20 percent of the affected a...
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If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.
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Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached.
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We have a limit and we've reached it.
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The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
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It is being considered. A decision on it has not been reached yet. We are going to consult on it now...
SAM IBOK
we are arriving at a consensus.
ALI RODRIGUEZ
We have reached some understandings
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The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would no...
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Any article or any statements about the mayor reaching a medical decision are just false. The mayor ...
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Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to beg...
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I don't hear from comments that we have a lot of consensus at this point.
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Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
JEFFREY FRY
It still has not sunk in yet.
DENNIS TOMASEVICZ
Not yet. He's like glue.
WILLIE WILLIAMS
I'm 39 but I'm not over the hill yet.
GAIL DEVERS
They're not sure of anything yet.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
Not yet. We do see some, but we haven't lately.
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We're talking about extending the efforts to those people who we have not reached previously.
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we have reached the conclusion that there should be a prime minister for all Iraqis, not just one gr...
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We seem to have reached a serious and fundamental impasse,
JACK LAYTON
We have reached a conclusion that they were suicide bombings.
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It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
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You don't have to have long hair to be a Rock star, but it helps." - Jonathan Fox
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A move up to 3.25 percent is not yet fully priced into the market. While our official call remains f...
ELGA BARTSCH
That certainly is not much of a consensus as when you have a 7-1 or 6-1 vote. And I know the board v...
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And it's not surprising that there should be disagreement - it'd be a little surprising if there was...
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We have elected officials who put consensus and getting along above anything else.
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This is the kind of performance we expect out of Jonathan on a regular basis.
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WILLIAM ETTERLING
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
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Going against a general consensus is not for the timid.
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In 18 days, Jonathan U should have walked out of that hospital.
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Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
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Even a simplified stability test, which usually only takes one day, would have identified a problem ...
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There is a general consensus in the community of the need for a multipurpose facility. A general con...
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We have identified a suspect, but he has not been charged yet.
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I definitely have a little Woody Allen inside of me. That is true.
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If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough.
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We have reached the tipping point with this road.
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It's like it's not real. It really hasn't sunk in yet. It comes and goes.
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It is still color, it is not yet light.
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There'll be a lot of turmoil; and we're not finished yet.
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They were not ready for me. They were not ready for me to do the show upstairs. Not yet.
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I just feel like I'm not quite done yet.
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You're not through yet. You've got a project to finish.
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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ...
JONATHAN RABAN
What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT
How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT
What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT
So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
JONATHAN SWIFT