Sentences with phrase «achieve consensus on»

The models used in NSW differ from those established in other states in that, the participants actually sit in a circle, it is not usually held in a formal court setting, the circle attempts to achieve consensus on the sentence and the circle reconvenes, a few months later, to review the progress of the offender or status of the sentence.

The circle attempts to achieve consensus on the sentence and the circle reconvenes, a few months later, to review the progress of the offender or status of the sentence.

It leverages proof - of - work for identity establishment to prevent against sybil attacks, but employs a low - footprint EC - Schnorr algorithm to achieve consensus on transaction validity.

To its credit, however, the Working Group did achieve consensus on several aspects of the instrument, whatever its eventual form.

In 2003, Thorstenson began laying the groundwork to implement a PLC at Work model by having her whole staff read Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes by the DuFours and two other co-authors, and by meeting with the school board, teachers, parents, administrators and union leaders to achieve consensus on going forward with the model.

To yield real rigor (and comparability), the currently - under - development assessments must avoid numerous pitfalls and incorporate hard - to - achieve consensus on genuinely challenging issues (such as where to set the «cut score»).

The roundtable did not attempt to address what should be taught, but it was clear from the questions and discussion that much debate would be required to achieve consensus on the tools and skills required of the new workforce.

But if the Government is thinking that it might be able to achieve a consensus on expanding Gatwick instead, it is wrong, as least as far as trying to garnber Conservative support.

Meanwhile, 30 percent of voters believe the governor doesn't achieve consensus on key issues, while 22 percent believe he jumps from issue to issue without a plan.

As for his greatest weakness as governor, 30 percent said he doesn't achieve consensus on important issues, 22 percent said he jumps from issue to issue without a plan, 19 percent said he doesn't work well with others and 10 percent said he puts off making tough decisions.

There is little doubt that major party and procedural developments — for example, the rise of partisan polarization in the House and Senate will significantly determine whether the two parties, the two chambers, and Congress and the White House can achieve consensus on common objectives.

Can we ever achieve consensus on divisive social issues?

Instead of working to achieve consensus on contested theological and moral issues, legislatively driven agendas are designed to end debates by reducing the issue to two sides and then enacting one side into church policy and ecclesiastical law.

«And we seem to achieve consensus on all our significant deals,» Gibney said.

Another difficulty in achieving a consensus on religion in public life is the fact that Will Herberg's tripartite description of American religious life as Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish no longer fits American religious reality.

Katharine Mach, who served as co-director of science on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will present her most recent findings on the trials and triumphs of achieving a consensus on climate science.

HAP, science has achieved consensus on many scientific subjects, yet those subjects are still considered part of science.

Mr. Carey's task group re-wrote and re-organized the entire chapter and was successful in achieving consensus on the new text related to the use of the process of elimination.

The Court went on to caution that «when considering the theory of expert testimony... it is vitally important to avoid the confusion engendered by reference to syndromes... At the present time experts have not achieved consensus on the existence of a psychological syndrome... use of the word syndrome leads only to confusion, and to unwarranted and unworkable comparisons to battered child syndrome.»

Not exact matches

How do you achieve consensus with the other officials on the ice?

There may be sufficient consensus on the urgency of developing a sustainable society to achieve agreement on some elements of institutional reform for which only a few were ready in the seventies.

And on these issues he will achieve consensus.

Contemporary evangelicals are finding it difficult to achieve anything like consensus on each succeeding theological topic they address.

The question is where such core religious teachings can and should «trump» cultural practices, and how consensus can be achieved on these divisive issues.

In this view, social change is gradual and evolutionary, and achieved on the basis of consensus.

CODEX is currently reviewing the definitions of food fraud in considerable detail and this work is expected to inform current efforts to achieve better consensus on the terminology around this issue.

In 2014, the 1st International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition provided an opportunity to share experiences and build the evidence base on agroecology, as well as reaching a consensus on the priorities for achieving more sustainable food systems through agroecology.

To achieve this advanced certification, a consensus of stakeholders had to affirm the positive contributions that the Cabazon factory has made on water balance and the quality of the catchment.

She uses reason, power, and shaping by regime and reinforcement to achieve her objectives, and does not base her decisions on group consensus or the individual child's desires.

These principles are the result of a background document that examined the feasibility to design adequate diets using locally available foods, and are based on consensus achieved during an informal meeting of experts held in Geneva in early 2004.

The efforts of the government on this issue will be directed in the coming months at achieving that greater degree of consensus so that a programme motion can be passed in the autumn sitting.

That is why the Whitehouse Consultancy has written to the leaders of all three main political parties urging them to work to achieve a political consensus on statutory regulation as soon as parliamentary time allows.

Coalition policy was to seek a consensus on House of Lords reform and I think it's pretty clear to anyone watching this debate that they failed to achieve a consensus.»

The wider campaign for a new relationship with the EU takes the form of the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for European Reform, which is open to all MPs, and which was set up in order to ensure that pro-reform voices from across the parties could be heard, and therefore a consensus on changing our position in Europe stands a better chance of being achieved.

Hopes of achieving cross-party consensus on party funding reform appeared less likely last night after heated scenes in the House of Commons.

There's consensus at the Capitol on the need to provide property tax relief in the 2015 - 16 budget, but a difference of opinion on how to best achieve that goal.

This is quite controversial, and thus requires consensus on how best to do so, and if the Jenkins Report's process is anything to go by, this is very difficult to achieve.

But she also revealed that the liaison committee itself is split on one of the key proposals, the election of select committee chairman, suggesting consensus might be difficult to achieve.

Last week Commons leader Harriet Harman said there would be a full day's debate on the 21 proposals, which she said would cover four «big ticket areas that we want to make change on» and which she believed MPs had a «good prospect of achieving a consensus».

Highly motivated people openly cast doubt on well - established evidence — the theory of evolution, the human effects on climate change, the value of vaccines and other findings that have achieved an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community.

Even Kummer admits that ICANN does a good job on achieving international consensus, at least regarding changes to the DNS.

«Moving forward, this finding emphasizes the need to continue interdisciplinary dialogue to achieve a broader consensus on prostate cancer screening,» the authors conclude.

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

«The difficult part is not to have consensus on having common standards,» he observed, «but on how to work on the political process to achieve them.»

«Oiling the wheels» to making apprenticeships work best for employers was clearly needed, Mr Way explained: «We need to focus on specific opportunities, such as ensuring the levy works for employers, using the political consensus around apprenticeships to secure stability in the skills system and defining a role for the new Institute for Apprenticeships that will provide everyone with confidence that apprenticeships are achieving their ambitions for productivity growth and social mobility.

While widespread consensus may be hard to achieve on whether middle schools work for the students enrolled within them, most people can agree on one thing: Regardless of one's zip code, there is a healthy amount of trepidation around middle school and the middle school years.

Achieving those results, however, will require the support of higher education not only throughout the development of theexams but also into their full implementation.As a first step toward encouraging higher education systems to endorse and base judgments aboutstudents» college readiness on the new assessments, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundationand Lumina Foundation requested the National Center for Higher Education ManagementSystems (NCHEMS) to identify the conditions that help build consensus between K - 12 andpostsecondary systems at a state level.

That leadership provided the model for the country and achieved considerable success, but it has become clear over the past several years that the consensus on which it was based has become fractured.

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.

Much depends on the few states that will be able to reach beyond the immediate challenges they face, forge a new consensus on broadly shared prosperity as their state goal, and redesign their whole education system so the vast majority of their students can reach the standards they will need to reach to achieve that goal.