Sentences with phrase «about consensus as»

NB, this is not to say there is no consensus — I'm talking about the consensus as it is invoked by the likes of Davey, which the Cook et al paper tries to establish.

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(For the record, Agrafioti demurs about the potential automation of those positions, rightly noting that there is no industry consensus on whether AI can ever truly become as or more powerful than the human brain.)

As Slate's Phil Plait pointed out, Scaramucci was actually wrong about there being a 100 % consensus that the Earth was flat.

Besides figuring out whether a family member can take over the company's operations, succession advisors say clans must also come up with a consensus about a transfer of ownership, as well as implement a plan that allows the founder to extract their equity from the firm.

Indeed, the general consensus among certified financial planners surveyed appears to be that a disciplined commitment to rebalancing their client portfolios back to target allocations is about as tactical as they want to get.

As investors, we are generally happier when the consensus is worried and we highlighted some concern about this very point at the beginning of the year.

It raises serious questions about the Yellen Fed's commitment to transparency as well as its struggle to reach policy consensus.

For much of my career I pretty much accepted the consensus, but as I started to think more seriously about the components of the balance of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the transfer of international status from Britain to the US.

Revenue guidance was above consensus as well and the company was hoping that people would be excited about their chip being in the new Motorola Droid phone.

BHAGAT: Look, let be careful about paying too much attention to a single quarter, but as it stands right now consensus expectations call for the very cyclical energy and materials sectors to be the winner.

But something much more interesting struck me about many of my peers» choices: There seemed to be an overwhelming consensus on shorting bitcoin and, as a contrarian, this uniform cynicism obviously piqued my interest.

Professor Woo, President of the newly established Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, talks about the watershed moment in the country's recent economic history and argues for a bi-partisan consensus around «an inclusive national development» plan as the only way forward.

There appeared to be consensus on another point as well: that there is something strange about this alliance between American Evangelicals and the Russian Orthodox, that it needs explaining.

As the years passed, Eliot grew increasingly pessimistic about the possibility of reaching a Christian consensus in the West, resigning himself to the prospect of «centuries of barbarism.»

-LSB-...] Global governance can be «described» as the new global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based NGOs.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

The authoritarian consensus about global warming that actively suppressed dissent, as Climategate revealed, is a case in point.

The function of a claim about the totality was not, as it was for Wilson, to provide «objective knowledge» and to serve as a basis for what Wilson called an «enduring ethical consensus» (BBM 54).

Perhaps we should think of the participants as carrying along with them their sincerely held beliefs about the good and the true but agreeing, for the sake of consensus, not to put forward those beliefs in the course of the conversation.

For our survival and well - being, Wilson says, we need a consensus about our origins, our nature as human beings, our place in the natural world and our purpose, or what it is that makes life worth living.

As I showed in my review, no appeal to consensus can achieve the aim that Collins and Walls have in mind, because there was broad consensus for at least a thousand years about the existence of an apostolic succession in the episcopate — a doctrine that the authors consider themselves free to reject.

In a pluralistic society such as ours, therefore, finding a common consensus of desirable qualities necessary in human society as a beginning point for discussion about the role the media play in contributing to, or detracting from such shared qualities, is awfully elusive.

The public consensus veers between sympathy for animal rights — although it is only some animals that are included, you do no hear much about the «rights» of insects and spiders, for example — and uncertainty about the moral boundaries surrounding human life and death — although, of course, outright murder is still regarded as a crime.

It is working to reach a consensus with the food industry over the harmful effects of a high salt diet, and bring about a reduction in the amount of salt in processed foods as well as salt added to cooking, and the table.

One of the most interesting conversations involved defensive players, as there wasn't a consensus about which players could affect the line.

General consensus says Schneiderlin is better, as do just about every DM stat you can muster....

Simmons was viewed as the consensus top pick throughout the season, but his stock took a massive hit late in the year due to concerns about his assertiveness and shooting ability.

USC was about to start one of its most anticipated seasons ever as a consensus top - 15 team.

The ongoing debate about which is the best defensive midfielder that Arsenal could buy this summer as backup to our new central general Francis Coquelin, and the consensus up'til now has focused on the Southampton star Morgan Schneiderlin, but today it is being reported that his Saints team - mate Victor Wanyama has publicly announced his desire to move to the Emirates.

While there is pediatric expert consensus and recognition that early obesity prevention is a public health concern, AAP experts wanted to know what parents, as day - to - day experts of their children, thought about early obesity prevention.

Therefore, although there was both unanimity and consensus about the topics addressed, there was not necessarily unanimity as to all of the specific words chosen to create the statements.

He said previous major terror cases saw all evidence available within four and 12 days - and that Ms Smith evaded his questioning about this during consensus meetings as a result.

«However, we do not consider either the independent review or the government has properly made the case that these two reforms, about which there is a broad consensus, can only be made as part of a package which includes the third reform - the involvement of a private sector equity partner in Royal Mail.

Such a shift, seen in countries such as Zambia and Congo Brazzaville, was designed to alleviate any ongoing concerns of refugee - hosting countries about implementing the Clause in order to ensure a public, political consensus for its eventual invocation, and end the politically damaging speculation surrounding conditions within Rwanda and the Government's true motivations in pushing for the Cessation Clause.

Saying that he is a «big believer in committees,» Zatz encouraged the reconstituted Town Board to be proactive about breaking itself down into smaller working groups to address specific tasks as needed, and also urged its members old and new not to get bogged down in endless rehashing of issues when consensus is not possible.

Massey asserts that as «a consensus builder» he will solve those city / state issues, but didn't offer any direct answer about the state issues in his outline.

Their realignment was about perpetuating the neoliberal consensus through an alliance of New Labour and Orange Book liberals as the alternative to the Tories.

«Instead at about the time the elections was scheduled to begin we were informed that a list of 4,704 consensus candidates had been presented to and accepted by the Committee as Ward officers for all the 147 Wards in Zamfara State.»

The article is a consensus report with a balanced analysis from experts with diverse opinions about the value of cannabis as a pain treatment.

But the two men's estimates of soot's impact are about twice as high as the consensus reached by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2007 report, which many scientists (including Shindell) still endorse.

As the climate changes, studies have pointed to the idea that dry spells increase in frequency and wet spells increase in intensity, although there is not a consensus about what will happen to the Indian monsoon, Singh said.

As yet there is no consensus about how this works.

Mr. Hoeven's amendment is designed as an alternative for moderate Republicans who may be worried about going against a scientific consensus on climate change.»

The consensus on human - caused climate change is among the strongest observed in the sciences — about as strong as the consensus surrounding the link between smoking and lung cancer.

Thus, we found that people's perception of the degree of scientific consensus seems to act as a «gateway» to other key attitudes about the issue.

I don't care about consensus, but for what it's worth: 10 out of 17 means a 59 % consensus that climate sensitivity is likely to be 2C or lower and as such global warming is not dangerous according to UN politically agreed criteria.

We show how the maintained consensus about the quantitative estimate of a central scientific concept in the anthropogenic climate - change field — namely, climate sensitivity — operates as an «anchoring device» in «science for policy».

As I pointed out when I first started this site, there is no major consensus about the number of arms the Milky Way has.

As with perceptions of scientific consensus on other topics, public perceptions that scientists tend to agree about climate change tend to vary by education and age.

The True Health Initiative offers clarity over confusion; we work to spread the fundamental evidence and consensus - based truths about lifestyle as medicine.