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The unease has been so intense that even the long-standing cross-party consensus on nuclear power seems to be crumbling.

'There seems to be a head of steam building up on a cross-party basis around the social mobility and fair access agenda, ' he says.

With luck, the cross-party fiscal commission the White House set up in February will provide political cover for this to be done.

A powerful cross-party parliamentary committee has strongly criticized the British government for its handling of the war in Afghanistan.

A bill to set such a price has achieved a remarkable degree of cross-party support (see article).

Upper and lower houses of the program will be considered cross-party committee and is expected to enter the legislative process next year.

But although the plan has cross-party support, the British public is not entirely convinced.

But the resistance is politically passive and a cross-party consensus in favour is holding.

Parliament has launched a cross-party mission to report back in six months.

Denmark's tradition of consensus politics means that long-term reforms in health, defence, welfare and education need cross-party agreement.

Some wonder if a cross-party candidate would be a good move, epitomising the new mood of national unity.

Instead, a cross-party consensus is forming that Britain should have copied the closed-door policies of countries like Germany.

The government is now seeking cross-party support for the necessary constitutional amendments.

In 2004 a cross-party group of lawmakers drastically restricted the scope of a law on fertility treatment.

Greek leaders meeting in Athens fail to give cross-party support to Prime Minister George Papandreou's new austerity plan.

When Ireland faced an economic crisis in the late 1980s, there was cross-party agreement on a reform strategy.

Cameron even proposed a cross-party committee to look into political and voting reform.

In 2004 cross-party backing pushed through a law that outlaws the headscarf (and other religious symbols) in public schools.

There is more scope for cross-party collaboration, if both sides are big enough to take the plunge.

The move could be designed to appease a cross-party group of 20 lawmakers who have petitioned the prime minister to revise the accord.

Some Poles believe that a cross-party candidate would be the right step.

A final reason for (wary) optimism: there is cross-party agreement on the perils of government regulation of the press.

There is no cross-party support for the reforms.

For six months, a cross-party parliamentary inquiry has been holding hearings about the burqa.

A cross-party group of senators has been drawing up a new one, containing concessions to some states and industries.

Former Labour minister Frank Field, who is a member of a cross-party group on immigration, welcomed the government's change of emphasis.

Military and civilian officials behind last year's crackdown could be covered so as to win cross-party support.

second, because he hopes to achieve cross-party support for it;