Sentences with phrase «achieve a consensus about»

It takes a great deal of time and professional development to form the widespread understanding of performance standards necessary to achieve consensus about «how good is good enough.»

Even when mediation fails to achieve a consensus about all of the terms and conditions of a divorce, good mediation can reduce the scope of any court dispute.

Not exact matches

Balsillie and Lazaridis would push through ideas they felt strongly about, but the goal of achieving consensus nevertheless created confusion.

«What is striking at the moment is the lack of a broader consensus between policy makers about what monetary policy can achieve and what it should do in the current situation,» said Jan Bopp, asset allocation strategist at Bank J Safra Sarasin.

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.

Don't get me wrong, there is something cathartic about the venting process but the benefits are short - lived and ultimately solves little unless some sort of consensus can be achieved.

And the Conservative party's talked about trying to achieve a consensus.

This evening, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gave a big boost to the plan, endorsing CB3's guidelines: «I want to commend the leadership and members of the Community Board 3 Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Committee for their effort to achieve, at long last, a true consensus about the future of Seward Park.

«I want to commend the leadership and members of the Community Board 3 Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Committee for their effort to achieve, at long last, a true consensus about the future of Seward Park.

By the time Risk was published in 1983, cognitive psychology had achieved a degree of consensus about the fundamental nature of academic skills.

When educators can achieve consensus not only about learning priorities but also about how such priorities are measured and what criteria define successful work, students can stop fixating on the personality at the front of the room and start focusing on the task at hand.

Forget about achieving an international political consensus, as IPCC has tried to do.

Recent arguments dominating the public discussion on climate change seem to have been about the «scientific consensus» achieving certainty, rather than advising caution in the face of doubt.

No consensus has been achieved in science, society and politics even about the question whether in - depth research in the form of field experiments on Climate Engineering should be conducted.

Also, it may be difficult for partners to reach a consensus about what should be the firm's objectives and the strategies for achieving these goals.

Since philosophical cohesion is a prerequisite to effectuating a structure by which partners will agree to be bound, great care must be taken to: (1) determine what the partners want lawyer management to be / not to be, i.e., strong leadership, consensus builders, visionaries, functional managers, etc.; and (2) engage in extensive discussion about the partners» respective expectations for individual involvement in decision - making in defined areas, paying particular attention to those areas likely to challenge the natural independence of lawyers who have already successfully achieved partnership.

Compensation: Partners must define the current compensation system and reach a consensus about whether it (a) reflects the defined culture and goals of the firm, (b) motivates and incentivizes partners to buy - in and to play their roles after the planning sessions, (c) will achieve group and personal reinforcement of expected behaviors, (d) will reward successful participation in implementing the firm's strategic plan and (e) will achieve results.

A recent white paper from the National University of Singapore also raised questions about how the Ethereum network incentivizes its users to achieve consensus, finding that honest miners may prove vulnerable to attacks given the Turing - complete nature of its programming.

From the Indigenous community perspective, this requires being able to make decisions from an informed basis, achieve a legitimate community consensus about priorities and ways forward, being committed to meeting obligations that are jointly agreed and having the tools (or capital) to achieve this.