Sentences with phrase «by lack of agreement»

This suggestion is «complicated not only by the lack of agreement in this country and abroad on what the common good is but also by our lack of commitment to serving the common good (however it may be defined).

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The author summarizes the agreements among scholars about the New Testament texts and the problems they face in trying to recover the historical Jesus — the lack of eyewitnesses and the fact that the Gospels were not written individually and probably not by the authors to which they were traditionally ascribed.

In addition to the lack of coordination among the bilateral and multilateral dialogues and to the problem of achieving, within the Churches, a binding reception of the results of dialogue, Raiser mentions one reason in particular that makes this reception of the results of dialogue difficult: «The paths thus far traveled «in the ecumenical movement have taken the separated Churches as their starting point and sought to overcome the division by convergence and formal agreement.»

Kuyper certainly wouldn't have been pleased by his followers» failure to evangelize, and pillarization needn't lead to a lack of outward strategy, but historically such power - sharing agreements place a premium on reaching a least - common - denominator form of consensus and toning down differences.

your discussions are mostly agreements, not discourses on the merits of the evidence (or lack of) presented by the nfl.

If approved by all government agencies involved, the contract would mark a breakthrough for the fair, which has been stalled for lack of an agreement with park officials over use of the Burnham Harbor - Soldier Field area.

The failure to publish was not due to the lack of availability of the statistics: As early as the summer of 2006, MANA was offering the statistics up through the previous year... but only to people vetted by MANA who were willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement promising not to let anyone else see the results.

«While we do not agree with all the proposals, and in particular are disappointed by the lack of increased spending limits, we recognise Sir Hayden's draft proposals as a sincere attempt to build cross-party agreement on a difficult issue.

Support for the main line project came just as Majority Leader John Flanagan was being pushed by a campaign launched by the business - backed Long Island Association and labor groups criticizing the lack of an agreement on the project.

A Cuomo spokesman Wednesday knocked by name Assemblyman James Skoufis, a sponsor of a free SUNY tuition bill in the chamber, for questioning the governor's tuition plan, and suggesting the lawmaker was motivated by the lack of a pay raise agreement last month.

Each side blamed the other for the lack of a final budget deal, which has remained elusive even though a so called conceptual agreement was announced by Cuomo and legislative leaders last Wednesday.

«Northern domination of science globally relevant to climate change policy and practice and lack of research led by Southern researchers in Southern countries may hinder development and implementation of bottom - up global agreements and nationally appropriate actions in Southern countries,» they write.

«Essentially we found that the marked lack of agreement observed among shelter staff members in categorizing the breeds of shelter dogs illustrates that reliable inclusion or exclusion of dogs as «pit bulls» is not possible, even by experts,» Levy said.

A strike in the spring of 1970 solidified UTLA, but the lack of a statewide collective bargaining law proved fatal to the first contract won by the educators, who sacrificed five weeks on the picket lines only to have the courts declare the agreement null and void.

Lack of agreements is why the iBookstore doesn't carry any Harlequin, Random House (One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare, His at Night by Sherry Thomas), Kensington titles because those three, among many other publishers, have not gone to the Agency Model and that is the only way that Apple will currently sell publishers» titles.

By putting the terms, agreements and interest rate in writing, it makes the loan official, keeps you accountable, and gives you the chance to borrow money if your lack of credit might get you turned down elsewhere.

Unavoidable reasons for lack of diversification can include owning a private business or being a key member of a company management team who is required to own company stock by an employment agreement with the company.

Environmental activists said a lack of concrete action may hinder the success of agreements made by...

For the pessimists Durban was another in a long string of disappointing international action on climate change: a new agreement won't be signed until 2015 and not implemented until 2020; there will be no obligatory cuts by most nations for another 9 years, only pledges; the Green Fund lacks a revenue source, meaning it's an idea without funding; and the REDD program meant to save forests saw little progress.

The lack of a «conceivable pathway to reducing CO2 concentrations... on the timescales put forth by the Paris Agreement» is not improved by said Agreement's permitting «developing countries» (responsible for about 65 % of global emissions) to prioritise «economic... development and poverty eradication» over CO2 reduction, merely encouraging them to «move over time towards... emission reduction or limitation targets»: https://judithcurry.com/2016/08/16/cop21-developing-countries/

The Trump administration's proposal to repeal the carbon - cutting Clean Power Plan likely won't have a big effect on the global carbon equation, but together with other pro-coal measures, as well as a lack of attention to energy conservation, could bump United States emissions beyond the limits targeted by the Paris climate agreement.

Richard Tol has an interesting new draft paper https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=wps-96-2016.pdf&site=24 that also draw attention to its lack of teeth: «The Paris Agreement discarded legally binding emission targets... the Paris Agreement obliges countries to have a climate policy — but the word «intended» signifies that climate policy is aspirational, while the words «nationally determined» specify that these aspirations are set by individual countries rather than through international negotiations.»

This is really the only reason I responded to you, to point out the real lack of will that exists to even take smaller steps (not by people here, but the general public); I'm in agreement with you about where we're headed and I don't see any other option, not because your plan isn't going to get us there, but that the will isn't there even to execute a fifth of your plan (let alone the required 90 % or so).

(a) the agreement is expressed by the words or conduct of a person other than the complainant; (b) the complainant is incapable of consenting to the activity; (c) the accused induces the complainant to engage in the activity by abusing a position of trust, power or authority; (d) the complainant expresses, by words or conduct, a lack of agreement to engage in the activity; or (e) the complainant, having consented to engage in sexual activity, expresses, by words or conduct, a lack of agreement to continue to engage in the activity.

These insurance companies take advantage of an individual's lack of experience and knowledge in the field by providing low - ball offers on a settlement agreement.

Mind you, that's not nearly as harsh as one recent comment by a (B.C.) corporate lawyer, who described the Quebec Court of Appeal decision as «poorly reasoned, spectacularly wrong in its conclusions and generally reflect [ing] a lack of understanding of both corporate law principles and commercial realities», adding that «parties to sophisticated business agreements will be far better served by agreeing to adjudicate their disputes in Ontario, where the courts generally have much greater commercial sophistication.»

And where there is a lack of agreement, the court will determine the non-agreed parts by «making revisions».

The lack of professionalism displayed by your staff, as well as the lack of follow - through on the initial elements of our agreement have led me to believe that going ahead with this agreement would only lead to difficulties for both of our firms.

In applying the criteria laid out by the Court, the AG pays little attention to the fact that the tribunals are set up by an international agreement rather than through domestic law, to the ad - hoc nature of ISDS, and to the long - held criticism that ISDS arbitrators lack the basic judicial safeguards for judicial independence.

On a more policy, rather than personality / leadership basis, of some concern, is the lack of agreement by the DUP and SF on when policing and justice powers will be devolved to the Assembly and Executive.

(e) the complainant, having consented to engage in sexual activity, expresses, by words or conduct, a lack of agreement to continue to engage in the activity.

35 (1) If the City and another municipality having joint jurisdiction over a boundary line highway enter into an agreement under which each municipality agrees to keep any part of the highway in repair for its whole width and to indemnify the other municipality from any loss or damage arising from the lack of repair for that part, the agreement and a copy of the by - law authorizing the agreement may be registered in the proper land registry office for the area in which the highway is located.

Essentially, they can be appealed if no true enforceable agreement existed; absent evidence of such lack of consent, leave to appeal should not be granted by a court.

If the courts are reluctant to enforce arbitration agreements or awards, or quick to second - guess arbitrator's decisions, on the basis that the arbitration process lacks some of the procedural protections offered by those courts, then arbitration will inevitably come to look more and more like litigation.

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Is this because these agreements have not been implemented as they should by the ratifying parties, or for lack of oversight?

E-mails disclosed by the sons in the subsequent litigation showed that, by expressing concern that Richard was being unduly influenced or lacking in capacity, they were able to obtain details of Richard's affairs, while securing agreement that their communications would be kept a secret from Richard.

Notwithstanding the lack of certainty, a sign the UK remains strong is shown by the agreement in July 2016 by AMC Theatres, the US cinema chain owned by China's richest man Wang Jianlin, to buy the UK - based Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group in a deal worth # 921m.

The claimant alleged that he was entitled by an oral agreement to a share of a Russian company known as «Rusal», that English law and jurisdiction had been orally agreed, and that it would not be possible to bring his claim in Russia since he would face assassination, arrest on trumped - up charges and the lack of a fair trial.

On the basis that in this case, the wife was challenging the consent order because there was no true consent, either because that had been withdrawn (by the wife's letter of 13 April 2012) or that she lacked capacity (because she had been mentally ill when agreement was reached), Mostyn J felt that the final sentence of Practice Direction 30A did not apply in this case.

By putting the terms, agreements and interest rate in writing, it makes the loan official, keeps you accountable, and gives you the chance to borrow money if your lack of credit might get you turned down elsewhere.

The comments by Baddagun about a lack of follow - up from government perhaps reflect a common concern among many Aboriginal communities and organisations that have entered into SRAs, that these agreements had raised expectations within the community, including longer term aspirations, which in the end are unfulfilled.

Provider participants in this study attributed part of parenting difficulties to the way these children were raised by grandparents in China and a lack of agreement between Chinese parents and the grandparents on child discipline issues.

In determining joint custody, courts consider any parental agreement (or lack of agreement) about custody decisions, any unreasonable disagreement made by a parent, the ability of the parents to cooperate, and the logical possibility of joint custody.

If more involvement of the attorneys is needed by the clients (who perhaps need more support due to a power imbalance or lack of trust), they can enter into a collaborative agreement with their attorneys.

SageGroup Associates v. Dominion Textile (USA)(244 A.D. 2d 281)-- the «able» prong of the ready, willing and able test refers to the prospective subtenant's financial ability; although broker established he procured a prospective subtenant ready, willing and able to sublet on terms set by the prospective sublessor, the parties» disagreement as to the terms of their oral agreement raised triable issues of fact precluding summary judgment in favor of either party; no cause of action exists in quantum meruit, unjust enrichment and account stated where there is an express contract governing the broker's right to a commission; broker lacks standing to claim tortious interference with contract against landlord for refusal to grant tenant permission to sublease because broker is neither a party to nor an intended beneficiary of the sublease rejected by the landlord.