Sentences with phrase «by consensus rather»

With mediation, the parties will optimally settle their differences by consensus rather than by the decree of a hearing panel.

Most cases are decided by consensus rather than court adjudication:

But many parents find that they prefer to make decisions by consensus rather than by simple majority vote.

Not exact matches

Mr. Musk said on Twitter this week that the group of economic advisers planned to come to some sort of «consensus» on immigration, and to influence Mr. Trump by engaging directly with him rather than cutting off ties completely.

Above and beyond the single denominations, it is characterized by a Protestant Christian consensus that is not defined in denominational terms but rather in association with its sense of a special religious mission toward the rest of the world.

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

This consensus was that development should henceforth be led by investments by transnational corporations (TNCs) rather than by grants by governments and intergovernmental organizations.

The Orthodox way is to make decisions by consensus, with all bishops holding equal standing in the decision, rather than by top - down decision - making.

No one, least of all bishops, should allow themselves to be swept along by such an ideologically driven consensus rather than being guided by careful research.

Their advisers have once again allowed themselves to be influenced by a current «consensus» based on secular - liberal ideology rather than evidence and experience.

Rather it seems that the Sabbath day rest injunction was added by the Priestly writer many years after the simple Commandment «Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy» became a part of the Jewish consensus of the Ten Words.

But if our social media community is anything to go by, there was a rather overwhelming consensus of what our weaknesses and shortcomings were, and how they needed to be addressed.

«This is democracy at work,» he said, adding that he believed the decision not to prioritise Brexit for debate was motivated by «a feeling that there needs to be a bit more consensus - building, rather than dividing the party at the moment».

A speech to Bloomberg in August got Balls» confident approach to opposition - continuing to make the case against cuts, rather than conceding a consensus on their necessity - noticed by commentators all along the political spectrum.

Rather than winning a Nobel Prize for his discovery, Dr. Rife's lab and inventory were destroyed by the combined consensus of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the American Medical Association (AMA).

Martyr in a sense that it has been executed, almost by stoning, when one sees the almost disturbing consensus (with rather colorful words and accusation thrown at PJ) of reviews.

What we have not had is the dialogue and political pressure to get it adopted by our universities and colleges, whose curriculums are controlled by the parochial interests of their own faculties rather than by professional consensus.

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.

As evidenced by the U.S. Department of Education's recent move to allow states flexibility in using growth models to calculate average yearly progress, there is a growing consensus that indicators of teacher effectiveness should be based on student growth rather than on predetermined levels of performance.

The Artist Survey done by the Santa Barbara Foundation showed that a majority consensus that people want to avoid giving the Funk Zone a «State Street» look and rather maintain and embellish it's «funkiness».

Realism strives to hide the hand by refining mark - making in order to approach a consensus of resembling visual phenomenon - generating a series of marks, while constantly editing and shifting them until they collectively appear less like a series of choices made by one person, but rather a consensus - an image that may be called «objective».

Our best lab and field studies, as well as a wealth of relevant experience by people who are doing meaningful communciation rather than continuously fielding surveys that don't even measure the right thing, tell us why: «consensus messaging» is unresponsive to the actual dynamics driving the climate change controversy.

Rather, he simply claims (by attempting to co-opt null hypothesis terminology) that there is a consensus — that he and his colleagues have proven their case for AGW, and that this should be the working assumption for both science and policy going forward unless someone can affirmatively disprove AGW.

I found the «science community was shocked» comment by Rahmstorf to be very illuminating; that is what happens when you do «consensus» science rather than focusing on the uncertainties and challenging your science.

Totalitarian politics is done by consensus (or, rather, by the pretense of it).

JC comments:» I found the «science community was shocked» comment by Rahmstorf to be very illuminating; that is what happens when you do «consensus» science rather than focusing on the uncertainties and challenging your science.»

and b) the urban heat effect (see recent paper by McKitrick), the consensus on a warming trend would appear differently; add to that the fact that some analysis show that the 75 - 95 higher temperatures may be partly due to effectiveness of anti-pollution policies, and you may realise that a consensus on higher temperatures may be based on sand rather than anything else.

Rather than imposing scientific principles on IPCC, United Nations allowed IPCC to be governed by: — the unscientific principle of a mission to support an established view (§ 1)-- the unscientific principle of consensus (§ 10)-- an approval process and organization principle which must, by it's nature, diminish dissenting views.

imo, innovations and discoveries are characterized by individual efforts rather than collective or consensus efforts.»

The current consensus ie that GH gases are responsible for most of the current global warming and will be responsible fore even more warming in the future, can only be replaced by a new one if a coherent case, rather than a whole collection of mutually incompatible objections, is made.

In terms of your request for something substantial, I responded to your original claim that «the theory relies on computer models» with a link to a RealClimate post that shows this claim is not correct — rather than computer models, the foundations of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change are built upon our understanding of how the atmosphere works and how we are changing it by emitting greenhouse gases.

Rather than imposing sound scientific principles on IPCC, United Nations allowed IPCC to be governed by: — the unscientific principle to: «concentrate its activities on the tasks allotted to it by the relevant WMO Executive Council and UNEP Governing Council resolutions and decisions as well as on actions in support of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change process» (§ 1)-- the unscientific principle to: «In taking decisions, and approving, adopting and accepting reports, the Panel, its Working Groups and any Task Forces shall use all best endeavours to reach consensus.»

For example, there appears to be general consensus in the scientific community that the Kilimanjaro glacier retreat has not been caused by CO2 - induced GW but rather by human deforestation of the area.

In regards to consensus vs. science - the consensus is not the science, but rather is driven by the science, by the available evidence and data.

likeithot - If you are in agreement with Lindzen, are you arguing that the consensus is unimportant, that attribution is impossible, or that scientists are wholly motivated by money and status rather than facts?

«Climate change can only be understood from a position of dis - census, rather than artificially solved by creating consensus,» he says.

Because politics is precisely what they are very quick to say the IPCC is not influenced by should anyone suggest that it overstates evidence, or that «the consensus» is rather less scientific than they would have us believe.

but rather, because he needs us to agree with his misanthropic policy wish list — by convincing us, somehow, that because there is only one «scientific consensus» there is therefore (and here the «fraud» happens) only one answer — his and his ilk's — which, however he parses, means an attack on the present development and therefore well being of the developed and the underdeveloped of this world.

Why would you jump to the conclusion that the physics textbooks are wrong on a very fundamental and basic matter of physics and that the scientific consensus is wrong in using equations that have been tested by scientists and engineers and used to build all sorts of technology rather than acknowledge that your own knowledge may be what is limited here?

I did not say science operated by consensus but rather that consensus is the loosely accepted idea that it's a waste of time to rehash areas where agreement is broadly reached.

Rather the meaningful consensus is not among the scientists but within the science: the overwhelming predominance of evidence for greenhouse - driven global warming that can not easily be overturned even by a few contrary studies.

The consensus seems to be rather that letting any countervailing obligations under another agreement prevail over those of the Charter, including and especially the implementation of resolutions adopted by the Security Council under Chapter VII, would be in violation of Article 103.

In other words a digital asset is created, a value determined — and by consensus reached by investment, value is settled by a network of participants rather than by a central authority or government.

The Stellar platform is a distributed ledger, which is maintained by a consensus algorithm rather than mining.

The implications of a «pervasively deterministic» blockchain are rather profound, as it allows for a bitcoin - ledger class of auditability to be extended deep into the consensus layer by chaining together multiple layers of cryptographic trust.

While the resulting video or editorial doesn't affect the «official» Pocketnow review score, we hope it provides added context by showcasing an editor's personal opinion, rather than a team - wide consensus.

First discussed in September 2015, Bitcoin Unlimited is a proposal whereby every individual node operator and miner would be able to choose a block size that they prefer rather than having to stick to the 1 MB limit enforced by bitcoin's consensus rules.

There isn't always a need for the entire ledger to be agreed upon by all participants, and consensus could be at the level of the individual piece of data, such as a trade, rather than at the level of the whole network.

The key attribute is that these contracts are not enforced by human entities and organizations, but rather by consensus and mathematics.

Both the larger platform and the Stratis token are actually based on bitcoin, with some modifications and additions such as implementing a proof - of - stake consensus model rather than the proof - of - work model used by bitcoin.