Sentences with phrase «at a consensus opinion»

Asked by The Lens how the board arrived at a consensus opinion without meeting, LeCesne said the first version was drafted Monday and it «evolved.»

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THE mining industry is in a vicious cycle with little light at the end of the tunnel.This is the general consensus of opinion among leading mining companies and economic analysts.

In the Old Testament, however, the actual practice of worshiping ancestors had been so far overpassed that while one first rate scholar says, «There is a growing consensus of opinion that the Hebrews, like all other peoples at a certain stage of thought, worshipped these spirits,» (Henry Preserved Smith: The Religion of Israel, p. 25) another first - rate scholar says, «The alleged indications of Ancestor Worship are all exposed to more or less serious objections.»

That was the consensus opinion of four wine industry experts — W.R. Tish of Beverage Media Group, David Ransom of The Tasting Panel and The SOMM Journal, Gregg Glaser of Modern Distillery Age, and Felicity Carter of Meininger's Wine Business International — who recently gathered for a media panel at the 2016 USA Trade Testing Conference.

Probably the consensus medical opinion is that there's nothing structurally / physically to be done at this point and it's up to Kawhi to manage it.

They have also become adept at coalition building and careful not to move beyond or ahead of the consensus of «centrist» political opinion.

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.

Mike Bloomberg may well be, as consensus opinion has it, a strikingly effective problem - solving technocrat, but there's at least one area in which his administration has plainly, if quietly, failed: homelessness.

However, instead of consensus, a new study by an interdisciplinary research team at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) of psychologists and plant biologists found a wide range of different opinions among scientific experts about how to describe invasive plant species, and how severe their effects on the environment are.

We are at the point where for a variety of reasons I believe it has become necessary for us to restore and rebuild the consensus among Texans and particularly our opinion leaders that for over 25 years made Texas the national leader in standards and accountability - based education reform.

The cognitive principles of learning are based on reports from (a) the National Academy of Sciences, 1 (b) a practice guide for teachers by the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education on Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, 2 (c) and a joint initiative between the Association of Psychological Sciences and the American Psychological Association on Lifelong Learning at Work and at Home.3 The recommendations here reflect the wisdom of these reports, which are based on scientific evidence, rather than being consensus opinions of experts.

The U.S. News & World Report rankings compare cars on the basis of safety, reliability and a consensus of industry experts» opinions, along with value — which is measured by a combination of a vehicle's five - year total cost of ownership and the average price paid for the vehicle at the time the awards are published.

Momentum is now decidedly bullish and consensus opinion is that ten - year TNotes should yield 4.20 % at year - end.

A survey of gurus by Business Insider resulted in a consensus forecast of 1,949 for the S&P 500 by the end of 2014: the index closed the year at 2,060, higher than all but one expert's opinion.

At a recent investment competition that I attended, one of the judges asked the question to all teams, in a somewhat long - winded way, «How is your opinion different than the consensus?»

Great, but to wrap up some of people's base pay on whether or not the general consensus opinion on an extremely skewed scale of aggregation is at a certain mark just seems... prehistoric.

There is a general consensus of opinion among the older and more conservative French artists, a feeling also shared in England, that the effect of the war on foreign art will be to at least check and modify, if not destroy, some of the recent modern movements, such as «Futurism,» «Cubism,» «Pointellism,» etc..

Those who like to postulate that nothing serious is happening are often posed against the middle of the scientific consensus as if they were two poles of a debate, where in fact we are at best hearing from the moderate middle and the more Polyannish tail of informed opinion.

When this format is overused, it tends to highlight the opinions of people at the polarized edges of a debate instead of in the much grayer middle where consensus generally lies.

This idea was a spinoff of work I had presented at an unclassified session of the 2006 International Conference on Intelligence Analysis on my research in support of the US intelligence community for which a broad spectrum of opinion must be used to generate an actionable consensus with incomplete or conflicting information.

It is a consensus among those that understand what science is and know enough about the subject at hand to have a knowledgeable opinion.

Scientific consensus is not «mere mass opinion amongst scientists», at all.

What you're referring to is a condensed version of: Kendall Zimmerman, M. (2008), The consensus on the consensus: An opinion survey of Earth scientists on global climate change, 250 pp., Univ. of Ill. at Chicago.

During the first nine months of 2009, at least 93 percent of all news and opinion articles published by the five news outlets reflected the consensus view that climate change is real and that humans are a cause.

Across the two periods, at The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN.com, approximately nine out of 10 news and opinion articles reflected the consensus view on climate change.

As an average tendency across articles, the opinion pages at the Washington Post — with few exceptions — consistently portrayed (i.e. in 9 out of 10 opinion page articles) the scientific consensus views on the reality and causes of climate change.

Across the two - year period, at least eight out of 10 news articles at the paper reflected the consensus view, but at the opinion pages, less than half of articles asserted that climate change was real and that humans were a cause.

Yet this criticism and broad - brush critique of the Post focuses on a handful of columns by Will and op - eds by a few others, and overlooks the many other editorials, op - eds, columns, and letters - to - the - editor at the Post opinion pages that assert the consensus views on climate science.

Despite the common perception that opinions vary across different parts of the country, survey data analyzed by Jon Krosnick at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment establishes that the vast majority of Americans are in agreement with the scientific consensus on global warming.

Claims that a scientific consensus on climate doesn't exist despite multiple studies or even cursory looks at the literature, or that expert opinions are meaningless, are really just efforts in denial, and attempts to halt reality - driven public policies.

Integrity is an issue of particular importance at the science - policy interface, particularly when the scientific case is represented by a consensus that is largely based on expert opinion.

1 a: general agreement: unanimity < the consensus of their opinion, based on reports... from the border — John Hersey > b: the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned < the consensus was to go ahead > 2: group solidarity in sentiment and belief merriam-webster.com/dictionary / consensus

Perhaps the options are basically, either continual squabbling and differences of opinion at taxpayers» expense (because the climate research centres are usually government funded), or a tacitly understood agreement that a consensus of opinion is the best approach in order to maintain funding for the research centres and to provide effective advice to governments that at least gives the governments a chance of initiating effective action to reduce CO2 emissions.

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Three - quarters (rounded up to 97.1 %) of all commenters expressing an opinion on my recent post about Dana Nuccitelli's attempt at ex-post-facto justification of the false assertion in the lamentable Cook et al. paper of a non-existent 97.1 % «scientific consensus» that turned out on peer - reviewed inspection to be 0.3 %, enjoyed the...

Look at other consensus objections: as with creationism, anti-vaccines, the entire tobacco industry campaign, ozone, acid rain, and now anthropogenic global warming - a repeating pattern of minority opinions trying to convince the public that the experts are not in agreement (when they actually are).

At one level, our results are entirely unsurprising: In light of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, most dissenting opinions are merely political and rhetorical tools aimed at trying to forestall mitigative actioAt one level, our results are entirely unsurprising: In light of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, most dissenting opinions are merely political and rhetorical tools aimed at trying to forestall mitigative actioat trying to forestall mitigative action.

A quick visit — and it needs to be quick because I suspect this feature will disappear very soon — to the «borehole» at RC will confirm to any interested party that there is a «consensus» of scientific opinion at odds with the «team» in various regards.

While opinions differ among scientists over the specific changes global warming will effect, the general consensus is that temperatures will rise 3 - 10 °F statewide by century's end, potentially leading to a drop in rainfall across Southern California; this would put at great risk a variety of animal and plant species that live in the deserts east of Los Angeles.

If the whole system of coming to a consensus that leads to meaningful actions is looked at from a chaos theory perspective, I think this so called «bump» may lead to a more chaotic and unpredictable state of affairs for a while longer... i.e., we can't predict what is «likely» to happen in the court of public / policy maker opinion for a more extended period before settling down.

At the time of Booker, the consensus was that the Breyer remedial opinion had all but gutted the effect of the Stevens merits opinion.

Given the block halving arriving in July, and the fact that network delays are already being experienced on the network, my opinion is that it would be irresponsible and dangerous to follow the scaling roadmap proposed in the Hong Kong consensus at this point, which includes Segregated Witness.

Scalability challenges exist due to an increased quantity of actors participating in decentralized networks as they grow, bringing diverse opinions on future changes to core codebase, combined with a lack of formal governance structure that makes it difficult to arrive at consensus in an efficient way.