Sentences with phrase «consensus on important»

After dinner, the teams presented their ideas to each other and the adults to look for consensus on important items and issues, which would form a single presentation, or to determine whether the teams had enough diversity in their thinking to warrant several presentations.

As for his greatest weakness as governor, 30 percent said he doesn't achieve consensus on important issues, 22 percent said he jumps from issue to issue without a plan, 19 percent said he doesn't work well with others and 10 percent said he puts off making tough decisions.

«Although we often disagree on policy, the speaker has been respectful of those differences and willing to engage in open dialogue to reach consensus on important issues facing our State,» Kolb said.

The absence of consensus on important public issues means that the power of the churches to influence public policy tends to be proportional to the charisma and prestige of individual church leaders.

Not exact matches

Durkan echoed a growing consensus in describing Seattle's move as an «important step to right the wrongs [of] the failed war on drugs.»

In thus explaining and championing religious pluralism on affirmative theological grounds rather than on negative or concessionary ones, liberal Protestants could make one of the more important of their distinctive contributions to the moral coherence «and consensus that our sprawling society needs but has found it difficult to maintain.

The principle, Ijma, is based in part upon an important tradition to the effect that what Moslems agree upon is right — that is, the principle of consensus, «My people shall never agree on an error.»

The reason for this overwhelming consensus is clear: ordinary Catholics actually believe the teaching of the Church on the necessity of baptism for salvation, they therefore know that it is important for a child to be baptised and they also have an immediate perception that it is simply unjust for a child to be deprived of baptism and therefore of God's grace because of the spiritual defects of its parents.

But on the other, the lack of consensus regarding the content of this «good news» we're supposed to be sharing with the world makes me wonder if we're missing something important about the original meaning and purpose of the word «gospel.»

We are pleased to be presenting in this issue what we think is a consensus on some of the key points we emphasise, as well as some important warnings from our contributors.

On the latter, the Council's documents reveal, once again, important differences from the consensus understanding in the West.

It is important to note that the betting statistics found on the Sportsbook Insider live odds page are NOT «consensus» picks, wish lists, or public opinion polls.

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

The outcome of our counter-terrorism powers review will strike that balance, and it is this Government's sincere hope that it will form the basis of a lasting political consensus across the House on this fundamentally important issue.»

«To create an overall plan that you're going to be able to get consensus on is not impossible, but it's a real slog and what I think is happening now with the Council is we are taking the temperature of members on the most important changes that need to happen to get broad support when this comes up for a vote.»

«In the absence of any real consensus within the community on this important project, I would ask that the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation delay its June 7th vote,» Stringer wrote.

Fishers Island Justice Louisa Evans said residents are asking for someone who can gather information to give to the Island Community Board, which would then find a consensus on what issues are most important.

But here is an important development, building on the climate change bill, where the supposed consensus on the «end» is what the government is asking the Conservatives to sign up for.

It's a small but important silver lining in a year when even NSF's best friends in Congress have turned their backs on the Obama Administration's request for a 13 % increase for the basic research agency as part of the political consensus on reducing the federal deficit.

Without consensus on how, and when, to teach science, cognitive psychologists and education researchers differ regarding what aspects of the research are most important.

While such longitudinal studies are important, it's important to remember that the field is still young, with no consensus on the best tools to look for early signs of damage, said Michael Hutchison, a neuroscientist who directs a concussion program at the University of Toronto and consults for the National Hockey League Players» Association.

That is, consensus is a powerful descriptive social fact: it tells us about the number of people who agree on important issues (i.e., the norm within a community).

The consensus is that several factors are important: atmospheric composition (the concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane); changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun known as Milankovitch cycles (and possibly the Sun's orbit around the galaxy); the motion of tectonic plates resulting in changes in the relative location and amount of continental and oceanic crust on the Earth's surface, which could affect wind and ocean currents; variations in solar output; the orbital dynamics of the Earth - Moon system; and the impact of relatively large meteorites, and volcanism including eruptions of supervolcanoes.

Through the CIC program, the Cancer Research Institute conducts a number of important initiatives that seek among other things to build consensus across the field on key issues, to develop and implement new standards for carrying out and reporting immunological monitoring assays of therapeutic cancer vaccines, and to establish and promote the adoption of new criteria for evaluating the clinical impact of cancer immunotherapies.

As far as cardio before or after, there's no real consensus — it depends on which goals are most important to you: endurance and fat loss (cardio) or body composition, strength AND fat loss (strength training).

He called the Committee's attention to three important developments in the past decade: the emerging consensus that evidenced - based medicine should direct policy; the emerging consensus that evidence - based medicine should focus on health outcomes; and the Data Quality Act, which requires that data, used as the basis for recommendations, should be replicable, and should meet certain quality standards.

An important case in point is a recent consensus statements by a panel of 10 distinguished researchers on what can be concluded from research on large scale pre-K programs:

What would - be reformers should remember is that their efforts are likely to be hampered by lack of robust consensus among educators on many important issues of teaching and learning.

Once they have each completed this process, the team begins to build consensus on which standards they can agree are the most important.

Puzzling it Out: The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects: A Consensus Statement lists six consensus statements on what we know about the effects of pre-k and highlights the importance of gathering further evidence to answer three important questions: What features of pre-k programs, specifically, put children on a positive developmental trajectory?

While there is industry consensus on certain aspects of editing, it's important to remember that every editor uses their own system when it comes to defining their services.

It depends on the instrument's volatility and the market consensus of important psychological levels.

Going down this path, you'll quickly find yourself in a debate on discounting and the time value of action / resources, which will take you deep into discussions of subjects such as environmental ethics, future / present generations, the foundational assumtions of the discipline of economics, etc. — all very important and interesting subjects, but ones on which there is unlikely to be forged a new consensus on meaningful time scales related to climate change.

The U.S. position is expected to hold sway here not only because the United States plays such an important role on the world stage, but because negotiators are fashioning a consensus document that needs to be approved unanimously by the nearly 190 participating countries.

In retrospect, it seems amazing that a mathematician, however prominent, would consider himself qualified to judge the consensus of the biomedical community on such an important issue with such assurance.

oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question: in an earlier version, a CP.15 - decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes • democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??

I'm paid handsomely by the «consensus police» to distract you and your fellow «skeptics» from your important work of posting the same comments based on the same fallacious reasoning in thread after thread, day after day.

When Hulme queries the value of consensus on human - caused global warming in the peer - reviewed literature, he has it backwards in two important ways.

October 23, 2010 at 11:24 am Over and above what may have been won and lost specifically in the climate debate, an important development is surely the critical influence of the blogosphere on the idea of elite scientific «consensus».

And, while most scientists agree solar power will be an important part of the future energy mix, there's no clear consensus on when it will be able to compete on a large scale.

But it is very important to the pro-AGW to claim 97 % consensus on their whole package.

However, the concept of consensus in science is an important foundation on which to build and move forward.

Showing that a consensus amongst experts exists would enable society to more swiftly move on to the important conversation on what to do about it.

Since the thrust of your report is about the fight over cap - and - trade, isn't it more important to assess the fairness, albeit admittedly more difficult, of coverage on that issue — e.g., exaggerated alarmism over potential energy price spikes, etc. — than whether consensus science was reflected?

The part where I disagree with Hulme is where he argues that showing the existence of a scientific consensus on the above (it is warming; it's due to us; it's bad news) somehow stands in the way of getting society to discuss that most important question.

«The authors write that North Pacific Decadal Variability (NPDV) «is a key component in predictability studies of both regional and global climate change,»... they emphasize that given the links between both the PDO and the NPGO with global climate, the accurate characterization and the degree of predictability of these two modes in coupled climate models is an important «open question in climate dynamics» that needs to be addressed... report that model - derived «temporal and spatial statistics of the North Pacific Ocean modes exhibit significant discrepancies from observations in their twentieth - century climate... conclude that «for implications on future climate change, the coupled climate models show no consensus on projected future changes in frequency of either the first or second leading pattern of North Pacific SST anomalies,» and they say that «the lack of a consensus in changes in either mode also affects confidence in projected changes in the overlying atmospheric circulation.»»

You acknowledge that there is no consensus on the most important aspects of the issue of potential climate change when you write:

The three lead NIPCC authors — Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer — reveal how no survey or study shows a «consensus» on the most important scientific issues in the climate change debate, and how most scientists do not support the alarmist claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It is important that policymakers understand the historical context of the global warming debate, what the data does — and does not — tell us about global warming, where there is consensus in the scientific community and where there is not, and what impacts global warming regulations can realistically be expected to have on the environment.

Previous research has identified public perceptions of the scientific consensus on climate change as an important gateway belief.