Sentences with phrase «at consensus because»

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«Canadians are tremendously good at planning and urban design because it is such a consultative, consensus - based activity,» he says.

Timmer: Yeah, so it's interesting because generally the earnings estimates, if you look at the aggregated consensus numbers, they tend to start high and drift lower.

Denise Morrison, CEO of Campbell Soup, candidly states that innovation was stifled at her company because leadership sought to drive organizational consensus (i.e., «something we can all agree on») instead of rewarding the courage to address the hard problems.

Now I think that was helpful in building capital — personal capital — because at times during the crisis we had to act more quickly without taking the time to build consensus.

These considerations are made even more relevant because of present United States commitments to international treaties on human rights, which could conceivably, at some time, put United States positive laws relating to abortion and the judges who implement them at variance with and in violation of a future international consensus on that issue.»

Because disagreements about the nature of the Christian faith are not at stake in the abortion controversy, this task could be undertaken ecumenically, aiming at transdenominational consensus.

The current division of theological studies into Bible, history, theology, ethics and practical theology reflects a very old Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology of the Word, of teaching office, of church and ministry, if not discredited, are at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this Theological Encyclopedia.

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.

Whatever is distinctive about Judaism has been left out of account either because it does not accord with the liberal consensus or because Jews lack a public philosophy of adequate complexity to mediate the values of their tradition to the culture at large.

I had a strategy once that was basically looking at stocks trading near their 52 - week low and how far away they were from their consensus price targets and it worked terribly (the issue partly was because analysts can be slow to update their PTs to fundamental changes).

A loan spell at West Ham United last season hasn't really resurrected the youngster's carrier, and the general consensus is that he will leave this summer — which would be a shame because, like Wilshere, the lad really plays for the shirt.

At the same time, they found an equally strong consensus that authoritarian, punitive, because - I - said - so - that's - why parenting also tends to fail.

«The consensus is that because kids are developing physically and mentally, they require more sleep at certain ages,» says Dr. Michael Breus, a sleep expert and clinical psychologist.

Because if he had actually succeeded in getting companies to set up their offerings so that they all came with filters on and you had to switch them off, the industry consensus is that while you'd stop some proportion of the technically illiterate from accessing porn, that would include few children — and it would also add massive impetus to the growing stampede towards the «Darknet» - a place quite beyond the ability of the authorities, at present, to police effectively.

«There was a consensus; at the end of the day, we care about the unity of the body because we want to work together,» he said.

On the meeting held at Premier Hotel, he said, «Many leaders boycotted the Premier Hotel peace meeting because that effort lacked wider consultation and consensus; the fundamentals were not agreed upon.

«There's a danger in overstating the extent of the ideological shift because the range of issues that we tackle at the municipal level are much narrower than those that are tackled at the state and federal level and I find that there's a broad based consensus on most of the subjects that come before the City Council,» he said.

And the White House opposes the measure because it «is contrary to the widely - accepted scientific consensus that GHGs are at increasingly dangerous concentrations... [and] would strip EPA of its authority to protect the public from GHG pollution.»

«There is consensus to treat subclinical hypothyroidism because it is generally believed that the potential benefits of treatment outweigh the potential risks of overtreatment,» said Tim Korevaar, MD, the study's lead investigator and a PhD student at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

(The United States was an observer at the talks because it still hasn't ratified the 1992 treaty, but wielded considerable influence because it was allied with five other countries and treaty issues must be decided by consensus).

Because decision - strategies that require widespread agreement lie at the very basis of the evolution of human cooperation, people may be biologically wired to pay attention to consensus - data.

Because, despite having this breadth of knowledge within its walls, and for many years after these climate science programs were run at Exxon, the company has spent years and millings of dollars funding climate deniers and think tanks who attack the scientific consensus, spreading doubt and uncertainty.

Last year was a good year to look at stats because we had a clear consensus frontrunner.

What to keep an eye out for with these awards is really what wins the «Comedy» category, not because of what might win editing at the Oscars, necessarily, but what has consensus heat to win Best Picture.

Prediction: Pixar didn't make the cut for Animated Feature this year, but «Piper,» the short Finding Dory came packaged with in theaters last summer, seems to be the consensus frontrunner here — maybe because its animation is state - of - the - art gorgeous, maybe because it won Best Animated Short at the Annies.

Just because we all thought a consensus was at play doesn't mean our assumptions will match the reality.

There is a consensus within the profession that SRE should be statutory at all key stages because of the benefits for children and young people.

«She sat on that board for as long as she did because she was really good at building consensus across different parties and factions within the education community.

Licensure assessments for those entering teaching reflect this uncertainty; virtually all measure some aspects of candidates» personal content knowledge but few test their knowledge at a standard adequate for teaching it, and even fewer require evidence of performance ability — in part because there is no professional consensus around what a new teacher should be able to do.

During C - SAIL interviews, one California educator described losing as a «blessing in disguise» because it allowed California to move at its own pace and create a consensus through implementation.

I am considering starting to pull money out of IRA's early because I was fired at 65 (yes, it was called a lay - off, but I know that was only to allow me to pull unemployment, since it was immediate, and I and the CFO had come to loggerheads with respect to his business plan that contained ridiculous revenue and some incorrect numbers - I refused to agree to it, and CEO and I had discussion - he wanted staff consensus, which I could not agree to), and we have significant medical bills.

Here's part of the problem: Scientists are human, just like you and me, and they occasionally defend wrong ideas because they propagated in a time where some novel but wrong papers / books were written, and seemed right at the time, and the consensus accepted them, because it agreed with their biases.

For me this conversation was not surprising at all, because the general consensus is that the markets can't be beat and we should buy and hold forever, especially if it's a large, «solid» company with good fundamentals.

While the general consensus is that investing only in stocks is too risky, Derek is sticking with dividend stocks because at age 40 + he has other income streams from his books and speaking engagements.

That seems to be the general consensus at Big Publisher Incorporated, because yet another revamp appears to be on the cards.

The obvious answer (from someone who is indeed receptive to arguments for lower - than - consensus climate sensitivities) is that it was on a par with recent hot years because temperatures at US latitudes of the globe really weren't as much cooler in the 1930s / 1940s (compared to the present) than GISS / Hadley's best estimates (from often sketchy global coverage) suggest.

Instead, we find the «net being an ever more polarizing influence, and having negative effects on public policy because it's so much harder to arrive at a consensus.

«The reason «consensus» has not appeared to work in society at large to date isn't because it's ineffective — it's because there is a well - funded countermovement out there that takes every opportunity to mislead the public into thinking that there isn't a consensus,» Lewandowsky told me, in response to this argument.

If I look at the consensus more than the sceptical fringe it is because the consensus is larger by orders of magnitude (at least in Europe)

We only need to take a consensus of atmospheric scientists in the first place because the science is so nascent that pretty much no inarguable conclusions are at all apparent.

That is not a consensus at all in science... Roy and I have both made the statement that we are in the 97 percent because we believe in some (man - made) effect.»

I can not find the reference at the moment, but as I recall Naomi Oreskes noted that as a scientific consensus grows the explicit mention of that consensus declines - because, again, there's no need to repeatedly tell your audience that water is wet, or that a clear sky is blue...

Therefore while presumable some respondents answering «unknown» do not agree with the consensus, it is problematic including the «unknown» figures because doing so assumes that all who so answered disagreed with the consensus which is not at all certain.

Obama's disingenuous Tweet, whether it be «dangerous», «catastrophic» or «apocalyptic» — and he did use the word dangerous — is disingenuous because there is no such consensus on the dangers of climate change, only that climate is changing and it is likely caused, at least in part, by humans.

«If a consensus arose that we had to limit or curtail the use of hydrocarbons because of their impact on climate, the implications would be enormous,» Dr. Carroll L. Wilson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, warned at EEI's Annual Convention in 1971.

Copenhagen failed because the political tide had turned against the consensus, and is continuing to, in the U.S. at least.

But that's I think because the public is uninformed about specifics, and even when an equally carefully worded phrase is used, where 98 % of scientists know it's not consensus, the same 50/50 split among the public will come up, and all that means is they don't know scientific language and the specifics of the issue well and otherwise it says a lot less than you might think at first glance it says.

This warming can not have been caused by the sun, you see, because as numerous «consensus» scientists have noted, solar activity was not going up over this period, but only persisted at a high level (whether extraordinarily high, as Usoskin estimates, or merely high, as Muscheler estimates).

Clearly, existing GMST estimates at «climate scale» are not long enough because they still show ENSO, AMO and PDO «oscillations», as witnessed by consensus explanations (note plural and speculative) of the pause.

The so - called IPCC consensus has come apart at the seams because it was always based in 4 scientific mistakes.