Sentences with phrase «against a consensus so»

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So what: The fast - food chain, which also owns Qdoba Mexican Grill, roared past earnings estimates with an adjusted profit of $ 1.07 a share against the consensus of $ 0.87 and up from $ 0.76 a year ago.

The hubris has gotten so out of hand, in fact, that one prominent «presumption against war» advocate recently proposed that the Catechism be amended, so that a consensus of bishops, the faithful, and theologians (the last presumably shaping the judgment of the first two) be required for judging a given military action morally legitimate.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Most casual bettors struggle with the psychology of ignoring the so - called experts and consistently picking against the consensus.

This lack of consensus led Wilson to propose an «agreement to differ» so that government ministers could argue against European integration during the referendum campaign without having to resign.

High - stakes lawsuits, including ones filed by former players against the NFL, have added to the pressure to come up with methods for diagnosing and tracking the disorder in living people, but such efforts have just crossed the starting line, researchers said last week at a traumatic brain injury conference in Washington, D.C. Only in the past month or so have they arrived at a consensus about what CTE looks like in postmortem brain tissue, findings presented this week in Washington, D.C., at the American Academy of Neurology meeting.

The consensus is so strong that both the American Educational Research Association and the American Psychological Association have posted position statements against high stakes testing on their websites.»

Since coined by the Lettrist International in the 1950s, it has served various generations as a common strategy by which to subvert consensus visual language so as to turn the expressions of capitalist culture against themselves.

Those who are using him as an example of scientific consensus holding back scientific research are wrong and quite often represent the modern equivalent of the political and theological powers against which Galileo so indomitably fought.

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??

Or is Paul defending against the charge by making a numbers argument — the scientists in question are on the same side as the consensus, so to challenge any aspect of global warming science or politics is to make a statement about «the majority of scientists» (many of whom are in fact social scientists)?

I remember the Nurse documentary where he showed the same type of people demonstrating against GM foods and not trusting the scientific consensus were the same people that totally trusted the so called science consensus when it came to AGW.

We are, all of us, fortunate that it did so, for this has left the IWC well - positioned to further extend its commitment to protection for whales, and to honor the developing global consensus against the legitimacy of commercial whaling.

Note that in the abstract, the authors have completely avoided saying how many scientists are against the so - called consensus position.

The past few weeks have — without a doubt — seen the most dramatic acceleration of developments against the claims of a so - called «consensus.»

Rather than fighting against climate consensus, which is how we are so often portrayed, skeptics in fact have history and empirical data on our side.

Why is it so necessary to so vehemently defend the consensus against people that disagree with it, some of whom don't disagree with it all that much?

You ask «Why is it so necessary to so vehemently defend the consensus against people that disagree with it, some of whom don't disagree with it all that much?

Thank you — it is liberating to feel that the yoke of consensus enforcement * finally * lifting, if only a crack; congratulations and profound appreciation to all of us who have toiled so hard and so long against almost unimaginable levels of victimization.

That's why so many deniers — excuse me, rejectionists — like yourself fight so hard against the consensus argument.

So we encourage clients to try to understand how their business model might need to evolve to ensure they have the appropriate consensus in their organization to get behind such a solution, and that the solution doesn't cut against other goals.