Sentences with phrase «consensus around best»

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The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

This was slightly better than the consensus estimate of around 2 percent, even as real GDP eased from 2.9 percent growth in the fourth quarter data.

Analysts welcomed the better than expected result, which beat consensus forecasts by around $ 10 million, and suggested that the full year guidance could be conservative given that the first tranche of cost savings will be weighted towards the second half.

There's a consensus around the industry that this was a year in which the smart manufacturing delivered on many if its promises of «good things».

CODEX is currently reviewing the definitions of food fraud in considerable detail and this work is expected to inform current efforts to achieve better consensus on the terminology around this issue.

But usually, when players wait around for days at the draft, they're not consensus five - star recruits who were good in college.

While the squad still has a couple of viable options (namely playing Babel in the striker role, or Kuyt in an attacking role to the outside flanking Torres), there seems to be a growing consensus around Merseyside that the club is better off without a second strike option.

While the previous recommendation was to begin solids at 4 - 6 months, the general consensus in the medical community is that the best time to introduce solids is around 6 months.

But we've also heard consensus about the challenges: Around funding, around how to procure locally grown food, around how to ensure food safety standards are met, and how to incorporate better salad bars in schools in a way that counts for reimbursable Around funding, around how to procure locally grown food, around how to ensure food safety standards are met, and how to incorporate better salad bars in schools in a way that counts for reimbursable around how to procure locally grown food, around how to ensure food safety standards are met, and how to incorporate better salad bars in schools in a way that counts for reimbursable around how to ensure food safety standards are met, and how to incorporate better salad bars in schools in a way that counts for reimbursable meals.

A consensus document that has been recognized as an important model for improving the healthcare and well being of children beginning at birth, the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative has been translated into several languages and is gaining support around the world.

If you ask around at the end of the season, a general consensus of your friends will say one of their best family vacations was camping.

But the real challenge — and unprecedented opportunity — will be to develop a new consensus established around agreed goals of what constitutes a good society.»

The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, attacked what he called the «doom mongers» and said mainstream political consensus around the need for public spending restraint meant councils would have to «make extra effort» to find savings well into the future.

An academic feud swirls around how best or even whether to express the scientific consensus around climate change

It's a given that an organized and well - funded campaign has led efforts to confuse the public regarding the consensus around anthropogenic climate change.

The superhero movie genre is one of the biggest and most popular around, but finding a consensus on the very best superhero movies ever made is tough.

Cannes is a notoriously tricky (and often well - nigh impossible) contest to predict: partly because the voting body is an ever - changing template, but largely because there's been no time ahead of the festival for any kind of critical or popular consensus to build around the mostly unseen films on the shortlist.

In a strange way, as there was such consensus around Toni Erdmann (pictured above), it's possibly better that it did not get some minor consolation prize like a shared director's award.

As current trends in contemporary society demand new educational responses, and traditional systems of learning are substantially challenged and reshaped, consensus is building around the importance of developing learners well prepared to meet the demands that current and future global trends make on individuals and societies, particularly in the area of civic and social participation, and ethical behavior in a world increasingly marked by difference.

CD: The first thing to do is to arrive at consensus around what is good teaching... Having a shared and common understanding about what is good teaching is important.

«Oiling the wheels» to making apprenticeships work best for employers was clearly needed, Mr Way explained: «We need to focus on specific opportunities, such as ensuring the levy works for employers, using the political consensus around apprenticeships to secure stability in the skills system and defining a role for the new Institute for Apprenticeships that will provide everyone with confidence that apprenticeships are achieving their ambitions for productivity growth and social mobility.

There is a good deal of consensus around standards for teaching and learning and the core set of skills needed for academic success in the 21 st century.

Opinions about the worst developments in 2010 — as viewed by those who voted in the Ednext poll — were sharply defined, while little consensus formed around the good that happened last year.

Around the globe, and throughout history, leaders have worked to improve education as well as debated its aim, yet one area of growing consensus is in the education of the whole child.

There should be a much clearer consensus around the target, and then much more flexibility for educators at the school level to innovate towards better outcomes.

There is a political consensus around putting children into sets according to their ability: that politicians believe they know what is best for schools.

District - level reform can not achieve its potential without a consensus around the reform strategy from the district leadership, the school board, the teachers» union, and a large majority of principals and teachers in a system, as well as activist parents.

The department, despite «great strides toward employment equity,» as the bureaucrats liked to phrase it, was still a bastion of male chauvinism, and the general consensus around the place was that Lise Delorme was too — well, too something for her job.

I've seen various numbers thrown around, so I won't try to quote one, but well less than 10 % on the high side seems to be consensus.

Well, the political gridlock in Washington has led to a game of brinkmanship around the debt ceiling (which needs to be acted on in the next two weeks), a failure to pass a solid budget, and no consensus whatsoever about how to start reducing the deficit by either cutting spending or raising taxes.

I agree that there is not a good consensus around the data.

While the professionals around the table were not acting officially on behalf of the organizations with which they worked, — The AVMA, AAHA, AAFP, The Winn Feline Foundation, the Catalyst Council, the Association of Shelter Vets (ASV), the International Cat Associaton and the Cat Fanciers» Association, they were focused on creating a consensus document as a step towards a best practice initiative.

I thought general consensus on N4G was that getting exclusive content was just thowing money around and not a good thing for the industry?

If evidence suggests the consensus should be overturned, a new consensus usually forms around a new proposition that is better supported by the evidence.

For instance, US Senator James Imhofe of Kansas called climate change «the greatest hoax ever» (Johnson, 2011) To claim that climate change science is the greatest hoax ever is at minimum, if not a lie, reckless disregard for the truth given the number of prestigious scientific organizations that have publicly supported the consensus view, the undeniable science supporting the conclusion that if greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere some warming should be expected, the clear link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and increases in fossil fuel use around the world, as well undeniable increases in warming being that have been experienced at the global scale.

Now, it doesn't go in the direction it sounds like you prefer, the long series of discussions on the science end up endorsing much of the core of the modern scientific consensus around the physics of greenhouse and global warming (though pointing out places where public media frequently argues well beyond the science).

That may be the source of the confusion; the «consensus» (for lack of a better term) lingo revolves around CO2 being the cause of everything, therefore «forcing» isn't forcing unless it responds to CO2.

We can go back 34 + years with UAH's global surface temperature and find that the trend is around 1.4 degrees C per century, well below the low end of the consensus.

So while there appears to be a robust political consensus around the importance of climate change, it is a silent consensus — which from the point of view of public engagement, may as well not be a consensus at all.

(05/27/2013) A new consensus statement by 520 scientists from around the world warns that global environmental harm is putting at risk the happiness and well - being of this and future generations.

Tax records show that the Mercers have given a little over $ 19 million to a variety of conservative groups, including at least three that reject the scientific consensus around fossil fuel - driven climate change: the Heartland Institute in Illinois, as well as the CO2 Alliance and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.

To start, there's hardly any consensus around how best to issue takedown notices when, say, copyrighted work is illegally used and shared online.

But from what I've read around the web, the general consensus for the best place for advice regarding going solo is Carolyn Elefant's book, Solo By Choice (and her accompanying website, myshingle.com).

Basically, there's no consensus among brands, or even within them, about whether it's a good idea to ditch the jack — but I implore hardware makers to keep it around, for all that is holy and good in the world.

Paris says there is no consensus about whether one therapy is any better than the others, though DBT has been around the longest and is widely taught.