Sentences with phrase «against the consensus of»

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.

Domenech looks back wistfully on the way Hefner's magazine asserted, against the consensus of today's gender studies literati, that sexual differences matter.

• It helped foster Balls's belief that you should not fear taking a stand, as he did in FT leader writer meetings, against the consensus of the time.

«That, the NUT, Kaduna State Wing wrote a letter to you, appealing to your conscience to rescind the decision above, but as usual, you ignored the letter and went ahead with your avowed determination to impose your will against the consensus of bonafide stakeholders in the educational sector.

One solid victory was when the BBC announced they will no longer follow a pattern of false balance when dealing with science denial — putting a crank up against the consensus of scientific opinion as if they were equal.

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Margins, as discussed, are the critical consideration: Against the highly optimistic (in our view) consensus forecast for 2014 U.S. Net Income and EBIT Margins to reach unprecedented levels of 10.8 % and 15.7 % respectively... we conservatively assume 2014 S&P Net Income Margin will no more than maintain the 2012 - 2013 two year average (i.e., 9.3 %).

«The Chinese government is set to announce a revision of its currency policy in the coming days that will allow greater variation in the value of its currency, combined with a small but immediate jump in its value against the dollar, people with knowledge of the consensus emerging in Beijing said Thursday.»

The three main areas where my direct advice went unheeded were the following: (1) the need for large - scale financial assistance [29] for Russia, which I deemed (and still deem) to have been essential to molding a political consensus around reforms, and to bolstering the financial situation enough to achieve a modicum of success in the fight against hyperinflation; (2) the need for strong monetary and fiscal policy to achieve a rapid end to inflation [30]; and (3) the urgency of establishing a social safety net [31], especially in health care and pensions, to ensure an adequate social and political base for societal transformation and democratization.

With a couple notable exceptions, the consensus on the street appears to be that the single currency will rise to 1.25 or 1.30 against the greenback by the end of the year, supported by accelerating economic growth in the Eurozone and an end to the European Central Bank's (ECB) quantitative easing program.

Last week was not a crash, though a free - fall appears increasingly possible, as the reality of emerging recession (and all that it implies for fresh credit risks, sovereign defaults, fiscal imbalances, banking strains and other problems) will likely smash against the consensus view of economic expansion in next few months.

ETC was the creation of a portion of Ethereum community who were against the introduction of hard forks without proper consensus.

Gibraltar Industries Inc (NASDAQ: ROCK) reported an adjusted EPS and sales beat before the open Thursday, but released mixed first - quarter guidance, with a 23 - to -28-cent adjusted EPS expected versus a 30 - cent consensus estimate, and sales of $ 213 - 220 million against a $ 215.4 - million estimate...

«It is very remarkable the degree to which there is a consensus,» National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) official Galen Carey told the Times, which reports that «no prominent pastor» has spoken out against the immigration effort.

Participants in the conversation from all walks of life should seek to describe authentic human fulfillment and propose safeguards against the many opportunities for abuse, until a body of principles and a consensus about the best applications of genetic knowledge emerge.

Until now free speech claims have been safe against such erosions, by a virtual consensus of our legal culture that political speech needs most protection precisely when it offends.

Mathison might say that by such a refusal, I am placing myself as an individual above and against the Holy Spirit - guided consensus of the rest of the church, which therefore places me in the category of «heretic.»

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.

If the devil is real — and the general consensus of church history is that he is — then the battle being waged against him is an important one and the flashy demon possession tricks are a very minuscule part of it.

... Britain intervened directly to stop the international slave trade... set new standards in healthcare... stood against a Nazi tyranny... forg [ed] the post-war international consensus which... ushered in a hitherto unknown period of peace and prosperity in Europe... [and] helped give birth to a peaceful resolution of the conflict [in Northern Ireland]... Your Government and people are the shapers of ideas that still have an impact far beyond the British Isles...

Forged by US gender feminists in the 1970s against the backdrop of May» 68, the postmodern notion of gender became the object of an alleged «global consensus» at the 1995 UN Beijing conference on women.

this blog is not working with me... I'll have to catch you guys on another post... it will not accept long post... This is my main point against the scientific method argument; it is consensus in the scientific community that most of our Universe is unseen.

Wounded as it has been by the absolutist claims of 20th - century totalitarianism, contemporary consensus demotes truth — on the one hand to something purely subjective (signifying fidelity solely to one's own sentiments and often offending against the principle of non-contradiction), on the other to the merely convenient (namely, to «what works»).

The Holy Father alludes to «those crimes against humanity of which our century has had such sad experience» - and he points out that the crimes would be no less horrific if approved by popular consensus.

Above all, the coercive power of our legal system, already stretched thin, must be used with caution and chiefly against evils about which there is something like universal consensus.

My thoughts: I was pleasantly surprised by the growing acceptance of female pastors and what appears to be a consensus against the prosperity gospel.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

The consensus is that Brandon Weeden's 4th quarter interception on Sunday afternoon against the Lions is one of the worst in NFL history.

The consensus is that Brandon Weeden's 4th quarter interception on Sunday afternoon against the Lions is one of the worst in...

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

Every World Cup there's a consensus «Group of Death» where there are 3 or 4 really strong teams all pitted against each other in the opening

The new requirement is one of many changes that were recently made, which also saw Free Schools become unable to teach against the scientific consensus, and also a check placed on plans for faith groups to take over Academies without a religious character.

The prime minister faces a building consensus against the government's austerity programme, ahead of a crucial World Economic Forum meeting next week.

The connotations of the term, however, are more dangerous than what it actually means because it implies a consensus without accountability and a solidarity either in support of or against something.

Voicing the importance of young people utilising their vote could be seen as going against a growing celebrity consensus.

When asked to weigh Spitzer's previous salacious actions against those of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, there is little consensus about whose actions are considered to be more offensive.

There are a lot of people on both sides of the aisle that are questioning the events leading to Trump's election win, mainly the overwhelming consensus in the intelligence community that the Russian government carried out cyber warfare against a major political party with the intent (cont)

The general consensus, as championed by renowned human rights lawyer Femi Falana SAN, seems to be that the decision represents a significant setback for the effective and fair administration of justice in the country, and President Muhammadu Buhari administration's approach to the «campaign against corruption.»

With widespread consensus about the necessity of workplace pensions, the Mayor risks going against the grain by removing access for Assembly members.»

A statement issued Tuesday by the school said a lack of consensus by members of the school's Students Representative Council (SRC) on a decision to invite the NPP vice presidential candidate to speak at a forum forced management of the school to advise against bringing him.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said, «The Methodist Church has in the past been an advocate of more inclusive schools, including being part of the consensus against compulsory Christian worship in schools.

The need for a robust pan-Nigerian political consensus with the potency and credibility of a doctrine of necessity should not be underrated in moderating the process for the desired objectives to be attained against the background of potential geo - ethnic tensions and tribulations tragically triggered in the past by deviations from agreed power - sharing schedules and denials of entitlements to presidential tenures.

The obstacles Cuomo has thrown up in recent days to obstruct the proposed medical marijuana bill goes against the vast consensus of medical and scientific opinion.

Following a number of funding allegations against all parties, there is general consensus that a cap on donations is needed.

The main trends I argued against in that essay were the liberal consensus, the persistence of class and the permanence of monopoly and oligopoly.

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.

What he went on to explain was that in the past, the Lib Dems and Labour teamed up against the Conservatives: now the Lib Dems are fighting against the «conservative consensus» of Labour and the Conservatives.»

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 Wall Street Journal editorial page has for years railed against these scientific findings on climate change, even as the global consensus has reached nearly 100 percent of the scientific community, including the reports commissioned by the skeptical Bush White House.

Crucial role of interferon consensus sequence binding protein, but neither of interferon regulatory factor 1 nor of nitric oxide synthesis for protection against murine listeriosis.