Sentences with phrase «consensus on whether»

The experts are far from reaching a consensus on whether Vancouver's market can continue on as it is now.

Thus, despite several decades of research, there is little consensus on whether childhood television viewing has beneficial, harmful, or negligible effects on educational achievement.10 This uncertainty is at least partly due to a lack of long - term follow - up data, particularly for school - age children.

The reason that Bitcoin Cash was created is that Bitcoin developers and users couldn't reach a consensus on whether or not increasing the block size was a good decision.

FOAM introduces a Proof of Location Protocol, which leverages long - range low - power radio networks, and incentive mechanisms, allowing network participants to arrive at consensus on whether an event or agent is verifiably at a particular point in time and space.

It also provides a Proof of Location Protocol, which leverages long - range low - power radio networks, and incentive mechanisms, allowing network participants to arrive at consensus on whether an event or agent is verifiably at a particular point in time and space.

The lack of consensus on whether to go on with the upgrade or not had led to a stalemate.

The next milestone for the international debate over autonomous weapons will be November 13, when states attending the annual meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons decide by consensus on whether to continue and deepen their talks on the topic.

The working group says there is no consensus on whether appeals should be allowed at all, even on questions of law.

«As our contributors highlight, there is no dominant consensus on whether LawTech or LegalTech should be used when referring to technology's use in the legal sector.

Unfortunately, there is no scientific consensus on whether this land use has caused overall global warming or cooling.

Harvey and his co-authors concluded that some climate - doubting bloggers, including many who cite Crockford, seek to cast doubt on all of climate science by discrediting the scientific consensus on whether polar bears are endangered.

I only commented here because I think it's funny that you quote skeptics with derision while conveniently pretending you are unaware that your consensus can't even reach a consensus on whether there is a «pause» in their own temperature products.

Bast and Spencer's beef, however, isn't with the scientific consensus on whether man - made climate change is happening (although you'd be forgiven for thinking so, being that a favorite tactic of those who oppose action on climate change is to simply deny, deny, deny).

JoeK @ 4, Cook et al did not test the consensus on whether or not AGW was dangerous.

A site like this is of value in providing a forum for such rebuttals — and developing a consensus on whether a formally published rebuttal is worth the effort.

We've yet to come to a consensus on whether or not we like the Cherokee's controversial, wedge - like front end, but self - proclaimed «Jeep guy» Migliore is in favor of it.

It's been six years since the Race to the Top Initiative, and there's still no consensus on whether the key ideas behind those reforms are producing progress.

There is no consensus on whether or not they are harmful, but the EPA warns «there is reason for concern» and recommends «prudent avoidance.»

But despite ENSO's massive influence, until recently there was no consensus on whether climate change would affect it.

As to which form of exercise to try first, there are not enough head - to - head comparisons to pick a winner, nor is there consensus on whether a specific form of exercise is a bad choice, per se.

However, the IOM panel was unable to reach a consensus on whether hepatitis C research in chimps should be allowed to go on.

Because oxygen is critical to many forms of life and geochemical processes, numerous models and indirect proxies for the oxygen content in the atmosphere have been developed over the years, but there was no consensus on whether oxygen concentrations were rising, falling or flat during the past million years (and before fossil fuel burning).

[76] She supported establishing a consensus on whether or not to have full tax devolution, but had «reservations» about the prospect of devolving further taxes to Holyrood.

(For the record, Agrafioti demurs about the potential automation of those positions, rightly noting that there is no industry consensus on whether AI can ever truly become as or more powerful than the human brain.)

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The development comes after the country's Ministry of Finance and central bank reportedly reached a consensus on the topic of whether digital asset trading should be allowed in general, or only in the context of ICOs.

In a recent Morgan Stanley Research report, Hornbach and his colleagues note that the consensus view on 10 - year Treasuries often misses the mark, whether in timing, direction or magnitude.

Hackers may attempt to interfere with the Purchaser's digital wallet, whether located on the Caviar Platform or otherwise, (Purchaser's Wallet), the Caviar Smart Contract or the availability of Caviar Tokens in any number of ways, including without limitation denial of service attacks, Sybil attacks, spoofing, smurfing, malware attacks, or consensus - based attacks.

Whether on social media or in our social circles, we often rise or fall based on consensus of the crowd.

We do not wish to play bit parts of it, as do, unfortunately, many invitees who are there to bring a bit of spirit to a demonstration which aims at something else, to provide a consensus of the elite on globalisation whether they be financiers, politicians or industrialists, and on the best way to change things so as not to change anything.

One of the most difficult factors for the layperson to deal with is the fact that there is very little consensus among the scientists themselves on whether the research should continue and, if so, under what conditions.

Whether such an analysis as the one I have offered harbingers the direction an evangelical consensus will take depends ultimately on its faithfulness to the Biblical record.

Protestants and Catholics will have to judge for themselves how well the declaration succeeds in stating «a consensus in basic truths,» and whether it makes the case that the 16th - century condemnations do not apply — even though they remain on the books as «salutary warnings,» to which teaching and preaching must attend.

In the last century that legend was reduced to just the one word, «Veritas,» and at Harvard there is obviously no consensus on what that truth might be or even on whether there is such a thing as truth.

We shouldn't HAVE to wonder if our potential leaders accept the scientific consensus on issues, but many of them DO N'T whether in truth or for political reasons.

The conversation drifts from the latest Costco finds, to whether Stitch Fix actually worked out for you, finding a consensus on favorite new books, and finally to everyone's thoughts on all - natural skincare.

There is little doubt that major party and procedural developments — for example, the rise of partisan polarization in the House and Senate will significantly determine whether the two parties, the two chambers, and Congress and the White House can achieve consensus on common objectives.

Republicans said on Monday there is a consensus among GOP lawmakers to keep Skelos, but Sen. John DeFrancisco is unsure whether Skelos will still hold the leader's post by next Monday.

Whether than focusing solely on criminal actions by users, the focus has been on treatment — a bipartisan consensus.

The expectation of a new region has manifested in series of meetings by the chiefs to reach a consensus on critical issues but, it is not clear whether the vexed issue of regional capital features in the meetings.

The consensus has been found on the «common ground» of One Nation Conservatism, whether this is confronting the «age of anxiety» (David Davis); the mending of a «broken society» (Liam Fox); tackling the «coarsening and vulgarising of society» (David Cameron) or the need to reverse Britain's «social decay» (David Willetts).

It is right to explore whether a consensus can be built on the most measured way to deal with this remaining risk.

Still, DeFrancisco insisted he was backing the «consensus» reached by the GOP conference to keep Skelos as leader, but hedged on whether anything would change in the coming days.

Whether this now prompts legal challenges or referendums, Andrew Cuomo will now be forever marked as the governor who politically forced a gay marriage law on the people of New York State without bothering to draw a more honest consensus from the population.

«Quite frankly, we didn't know up until a few days ago — I didn't know — whether we were going to have a broad consensus where we were going to agree on the parameters,» O'Toole told reporters after the meeting.

The photos had been previously coded based on a consensus opinion on whether the men «looked» gay or straight, which accurately matched to their real - life sexual orientations.

The unexpected consensus, cobbled together at the end of a 3 - week summit that concluded on 21 July, failed to address a competition between three countries to host the machine — and whether any of the governments would be willing to pay the lion's share.

FWS will convene a meeting of experts to try to come to consensus on the question of whether the red wolf is distinct species.

The paper has split scientists, with consensus on the need for a moratorium on clinical applications but disagreement about whether to support basic research on editing genes in human sperm, eggs, or embryos.

Interestingly, the results of our promoter analysis for all these genes revealed that 9 of 17 genes (COL13A1, CSF3, FSCN1, HG18, LTBP1, PELI1, PLOD2, SCNN1A, and TNFSF10) have perfectly matched consensus sequences of KLF4 binding site on the promoter regions, suggesting a potential possibility of controlling these genes by KLF4 although it is not clear whether these genes are cause or consequence of brain metastasis at this point.

The judge in the case did not, in his specific questions to the parties, ask if there was a consensus on the science, or whether climate change would present catastrophic risks.