Sentences with phrase «decided by consensus»

Most cases are decided by consensus rather than court adjudication:

The application may adapt its protocol in response to proposed improvements but all changes must be decided by consensus of its users / miners (in this case we do not take into consideration those tokens which can't be mined / staked).

Science has never been decided by consensus.

(The United States was an observer at the talks because it still hasn't ratified the 1992 treaty, but wielded considerable influence because it was allied with five other countries and treaty issues must be decided by consensus).

After an emotional and tense debate, member states decided by consensus to leave the question of the disputed territory of Western Sahara for another day, and resolve it with Morocco «back...

Of course this can not be the case if morals are subjective and decided by consensus.

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.

Not exact matches

In the U.K., the nine - member Monetary Policy Committee decides a course of action by consensus, with each member having a single vote.

ETC firmly believes that once the blockchain began to run, its developing direction will not be decided by any centralized team, but by the consensus of the entire network participants and the consensus of the whole network computing power.

I would say that morality isn't decided by any one individual, but by the consensus of society as a whole.

Park Board members decided Nov. 15 by consensus to discontinue exploring the option of the shared facility.

Park Board members decided Nov. 15 by consensus to discontinue...

The Senate has a threadbare majority and an utter lack of consensus brought about by the voters of this state deciding to vote for who they wanted where without regard to party or who needs enough votes to pass bills.

Most had avoided speaking publicly after a closed door three - hour meeting Monday night, where the Republicans said they decided by a «strong consensus» to keep Skelos as leader of the Senate.

This advice was not decided by scientific consensus.

It will be decided by what film stands apart from the others and unites the consensus.

So why would an education administration that claims to care only about the interests of kids decide to use a reading program, Month - by - Month Phonics, that does not meet the standard for effectiveness established by a broad consensus of scientists?

This is a very vague definition, not least because there is no clear consensus as to WHO decides whether an artist is ahead of his time, or WHAT is meant by being ahead.

With UNFCCC decision - making by consensus, the possibility of all nations deciding to trust all other nations and agree to forgo verification is near zero, and without official accreditation BECDCS is of zero diplomatic value to governments.

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??

Hulme also suggested that, in reference to a paper by John Cook, «merely enumerating the strength of consensus around the fact that humans cause climate change is largely irrelevant to the more important business of deciding what to do about it.»

Waiting for political types to decide, who by their very nature are clueless and indecisive, depending as they do on negotiation and consultation and consensus building are the wrong people to be making these decisions.

«my aim is to show that if you decide to dismiss the overwhelming consensus of experts about climate change, but don't want to bother doing the work to become truly informed, it's very likely that you will be fooled by whatever arguments tend to confirm your biases.»

Unfortunately «consensus science,» «standard models,» «settled science,» etc. have recently been decided by the flow of public funds instead.

No of course, but what's erroneous (or not) is decided by observation and experiment, not by consensus and opinions.

Much different than an individual who signs with an all powerful organisation to protect the secrecy of its internal workings, and then decides that there is an inevitable corruption of the collected workings by the powerful ellective that can write a policy document to override the consensus and misrepresent the dissent within the collective writings and the science.

This is why many of the best medical doctors eschew «evidence based medicine» that is driven by consensus meetings of physicians that decide what treatments and medications are insurable for specific symptoms / illnesses (largely pressured by the pharmaceutical industry).

Also hugely important is the fact that in Scotland, jurors decide a case by majority vote (like a civil trial in the U.S.); hence, there are no hung juries and they don't need a consensus.

At UrtheCast, Bowles said the approach is by consensus at the executive level when it comes to deciding what fruit they are going to pick.

At their next annual meeting on November 14, the 117 states parties to the Convention on Conventional Weapons will decide — by consensus — on the mandate for moving forward.

When SegWit was ultimately locked in by voter consensus, supporters of big blocks decided to fork Bitcoin and create Bitcoin Cash instead.

Voting at meetings will be by majority consensus or, if equal, by a deciding vote from the presiding member (see ss22 - 25).