Sentences with phrase «about points of agreement»

To secure a majority of votes under AV, candidates will need to be more honest about points of agreement.

Not exact matches

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

Fred points out some of the reasons for the boom and bust, and I'm in agreement and expand a bit on what happened — since I lived it and recently wrote about it in my book (angelthebook.com).

Fred points out some of the reasons for the boom and bust, and I'm in agreement and expand a bit on what happened — since I lived it and recently wrote about it in my book -LRB-

And with the U.S. president in full - blown Art of the Deal negotiating mode on tariffs and the North American Free Trade Agreement, there are trade statistics to prove just about any point.

Woodside's rights to develop the Grassy Point LNG site, about 30 km north of Prince Rupert, expired on Jan. 15, and the company announced today that it has decided not to renew the agreement.

9:3 points out that this entire chapter is about a single event 9:4 clearly states that any non-Muslim who isn't currently at war with the Muslims during said event and those who have agreements with the Muslims are exempt 9:6 states that even among those that they were fighting, if any seeks protection from the Muslims they are to give it to them The rest of the chapter is a continuim of theological ideals and prounouncements.

I agree with the point of your article, BUT your reference to a «conditional covenant» is the same reasoning that leads to protesters at soldiers» funerals and claims that Hurricane Katrina is an act of God's wrath (although I don't think there was agreement on what God was mad about).

What is happening here is a mashing together of texts to make the point about continuity between the then and now - the now, of course, related to those Christians who are in agreement with the arguments of Cyprian.

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The fact that there have been rumours that the Russkie clubs have been in for AA for some weeks, makes my point about the nonsense of delaying the agreement to loan him out until the last knockings.

While the document revealed important disagreements about the role of journalism, there was a general agreement on a few crucial points: journalists must report relentlessly, get outside of the bubble, call a lie a lie, follow the money and don't get distracted by Twitter!

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about an agreement reached this week with the Queens Development Group on Phase 1 of Willets Point; the agreement includes the construction of 1,100 affordable apartments (including 221 for low - income seniors) and a brand new 450 - seat public elementary school: «The City -LSB-...]

Smith's remarks on this start at about the 5:30 - minute mark, when Mika Brzezinski notes a recent Times editorial that pointed out how low - income school districts are disproportionately hurt by Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion education funding cut — all but $ 270 million of which is included in the framework agreement announced yesterday.

By contrast, point 5 is about what should or should be reflected in the withdrawal agreement and has no object in the absence of such an agreement.

When asked Thursday about areas of agreement, the top legislative leaders in the Senate and Assembly both pointed to funding wages for direct care workers.

The basic point that seems to be missing in 90 % of the commentary about tuition fees is that the damage has been done NOT by the Browne report, or in discussions around the coalition agreement, but by the Comprehensive Spending review and the slashing of teaching grants to the Universities.

The agreement finally reached on the local government pension scheme after the government made significant concessions has rather less to do with official generosity than fear about the consequences if the scheme were so eviscerated that hundreds of thousands of local government workers might decide there was no point in continuing to contribute to it since, if they walked away, they would still get the same amount of money in retirement from means - tested income support.

To measure tolerance we included four statements on the survey to which students could express their level of agreement or disagreement: 1) People who disagree with my point of view bother me; 2) Artists whose work is critical of America should not be allowed to have their work shown in art museums; 3) I appreciate hearing views different from my own; and 4) I think people can have different opinions about the same thing.

Tolerance was also measured with statements to which students could express agreement or disagreement, ranging from «People who disagree with my point of view bother me,» to «I think people can have different opinions about the same thing.»

A bundle worth # 27 with speaking and writing mats and a transition pack from primary school to secondary school offered (# 5 worth)- A starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power - point - Vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities - Speaking and writing activities to be able to talk about yourself (age, name, family)- Learn this alphabet (link to songs on the power - point)- Countries + game on flags - Talk about your nationality (gender and adjective agreement)- Definite and indefinite articles (le / la / les - un / une / des)- Say where you live and where you used to live (survey activity with editable worksheet)- Work on formulating simple questions in French - Avoir with a dice game and grammar activities to practise this irregular verb - Numbers up to 31 + months + seasons + birthday + date - Talk about your favorite object - Colours + adjective agreement - A worksheet to accompany each power - point - A revision worksheet to practise the vocabulary and grammar points seen in the unit - Writing end of unit test + a vocabulary test - Mon autoportrait (description of your hair and eyes)- An adjective agreement game to do in class with all the students (see explanation under the slide)- Grammar explanation on adjective agreement - A lesson on the verb «être» with various activities to practise the irregular endings (also some activities with être and adjective agreement)- A written activity on yourself and your family with a nice worksheet.

A bundle worth # 45 with a transition pack from primary school to secondary school offered (# 4 worth)- A starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power - point - Vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities - Speaking and writing activities to be able to talk about yourself (age, name, family)- Learn this alphabet (link to songs on the power - point)- Countries + game on flags - Talk about your nationality (gender and adjective agreement)- Definite and indefinite articles (le / la / les - un / une / des)- Say where you live and where you used to live (survey activity with editable worksheet)- Work on formulating simple questions in French - Avoir with a dice game and grammar activities to practise this irregular verb - Numbers up to 31 + months + seasons + birthday + date - Talk about your favorite object - Colours + adjective agreement - A worksheet to accompany each power - point - A revision worksheet to practise the vocabulary and grammar points seen in the unit - Writing end of unit test + a vocabulary test - Mon autoportrait (description of your hair and eyes)- An adjective agreement game to do in class with all the students (see explanation under the slide)- Grammar explanation on adjective agreement - A lesson on the verb «être» with various activities to practise the irregular endings (also some activities with être and adjective agreement)- A written activity on yourself and your family with a nice worksheet.

Both instruments use 5 - point Likert scales, on which respondents indicate their levels of agreement with various statements about science or ICT skills.

They rendered expert assistance to me in determining which was the right vehicle for my needs, to placing the order itself for said vehicle, regularly following up with me about the vehicle's delivery status, in completing the lease agreement upon the vehicles arrival, and ultimately remained attentive and helpful up to the point of my driving away with the vehicle from their lot.

Bonus points if you can get your landlord to write up a co-leasing agreement so you won't have to worry about taking care of the logistics.

«To address a specific point that has been raised about hiring a programmer: we did discuss this with Winterkewl in an effort to help them out, although wasn't part of the agreement and would have been paid for directly by Yogscast,» he continued.

I'm in agreement with Richard about aspects of the broader mythology around crowdfunding and the thrust of HM's point around the occlusion of smaller projects in the rush to celebrate the «success» of Kickstarter.

Enough people have already pointed out issues with your thinking about «decadal trends» and the data interpretation, so I won't pile on, but I think it's still worth saying a few words about the actual implications of model - obs agreement.

Agreements on short - lived pollutants may be easier to achieve, as historic contributions are not important and so finger - pointing about who's to blame for how much of the problem is eliminated.

With high - level talks over a new international climate agreement beginning in Lima, Peru, it's worth reviewing some basic points about climate change driven by the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases.

oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question: in an earlier version, a CP.15 - decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes • democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

The point of such coalitions is not to negotiate agreements, debate the meaning of treaty clauses or grandstand about the imagined sins of our rivals, but to act.

As you can see there is plenty of debate on the critical points underpinning the AGW hypothesis (assuming it is accepted as such at this point), so I don't see how you can state there is a general agreement about the science.

More to the point, there is no agreement about such basic, rudimentary, fundamental, all - important questions as the sign and size of the cloud feedbacks.

JC comments: While I really like the points Bill Hooke is making, I don't see the Paris Agreement in watch and warn mode — it is about alarm, its already causing harm, and is implementing very expensive measures at the first ambiguous signs of harm.

48 Growing Energy & Environmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP Source: NASA

We have to come to some sort of agreement about what these terms mean from a quantitative point of view, otherwise we just argue over different interpretations of what those terms mean.

Judy — I believe this thread will confirm what we have already observed from the Sky Dragon thread and the Radiative Transfer threads — attempts to arrive at a minimum point of agreement will degenerate into squabbles about even those minimum items.

More significantly, perhaps, those who had seen an ad with a specific percentage gave estimates about 13 points higher than those who read the one stating there was agreement among «an overwhelming majority» of experts.

This is really the only reason I responded to you, to point out the real lack of will that exists to even take smaller steps (not by people here, but the general public); I'm in agreement with you about where we're headed and I don't see any other option, not because your plan isn't going to get us there, but that the will isn't there even to execute a fifth of your plan (let alone the required 90 % or so).

Reading it reveals several points about the author including a complete lack of a clear idea of the diversity of sceptical positions, which are neither homogenous nor even necessarily in agreement with each other.

U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern was worried about a fallout effect of Japan's decision as well, pointing to its potential impact on the parallel track of negotiations in this process known as the Ad - hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action (LCA), which has been struggling for three years to create text for a new climate agreement which could either compliment or replace the protocol.

Put in writing the discussions and agreement with the client about the limited scope retainer; doing so will both assist the client in understanding the limitations of the service to be provided and document the extent of the retainer in case it is questioned at a later point in time.

The only Canadian cases I know of on point are both about scraping real estate listings, and both turned on what to me is the uncomfortable ground of a webwrap «agreement» not to scrape...

He made a point to highlight the parties» agreement that any determination about whether conduct violates s. 5 (1) of the Code requires an examination of all relevant facts.

Thinking about existing agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that have accelerated the process of outsourcing, their fate appears at this point to be dependent on the success of each US Presidential candidate.

Prof. Smith's concerns about renewable terms point to the central constitutional issue raised by our expert witnesses: whether Bill S - 4 can be enacted exclusively by Parliament, or also requires agreement by at least seven provincial legislatures representing at least 50 % of the population of all the provinces.

(iii) Knowledge Retention: to maintain a record of issues, agreements, compromises, trade - offs and open points as background to future questions about the interpretation of specific clauses or in case of a renegotiation of the outsourcing agreement.

Unlimited responses for each discussion, optional e-mail alerts for responses, and summarization of points of discussion and agreement — all move you and your spouse to a workable consensus about the terms and conditions of your divorce.