Sentences with phrase «defined by the consensus»

If morality is defined by the consensus it can never be the right thing to do if the consensus does not think it as such.

In America evil is defined by consensus of our elected leaders and validated by our court system, it is called illegal.

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At a high level, as defined by CBInsights, «Blockchain technology offers a way for untrusted parties to reach agreement (consensus) on a common digital history.

The beginning of his tenure has been defined by ramped up market volatility, a pickup in rates and the consensus that inflation is ticking higher after a prolonged period of price suppression.

Despite PEP's impressive TTM performance (improving margin, rising NOPAT), earnings expectations (as defined by «consensus EPS») have fallen from $ 5.72 to $ 5.58 over the past year.

Above and beyond the single denominations, it is characterized by a Protestant Christian consensus that is not defined in denominational terms but rather in association with its sense of a special religious mission toward the rest of the world.

By now the consensus was largely secular and most often defined by persons who were themselves secularistBy now the consensus was largely secular and most often defined by persons who were themselves secularistby persons who were themselves secularists.

The Eucharist is by ecumenical consensus the corporate act in which «the community of God's people is manifested,» and it is of crucial importance that the identity - defining rite of the Christian community is precisely a rite of remembrance, an act in which the many are united in a common turning in the Spirit to one in particular, to the Palestinian Jew Jesus, through whose life and in whose person the salvation of the God of Israel is confessed to have been conclusively bestowed on humankind.

The conditions, in a nutshell, are that the group and its purpose must be clearly defined; costs and benefits must be equally shared; decision - making must be by consensus; misconduct should be monitored; sanctions should start out mild and escalate only as needed; conflict resolution should be fast and fair; the group must have the authority to manage its affairs; and the relationship of the group with others must be appropriately structured.

The only point of consensus seems to be that a review is defined by what it doesn't contain: namely, original research and new results.

A consensus category was defined as the category assigned to an application by the majority of the coders.

Each term was defined by experts in the field, discussed and, if necessary, modified by the Working Group before reaching consensus approval.

While in Geneva, Dr. Modjarrad was charged with guiding Ebola vaccine policy by monitoring the science, building consensus among diverse stakeholders and outlining a broad scientific agenda to define critical clinical endpoints.

If awards are a snapshot, preserving the consensus thoughts about cinema at a given time for the sake of posterity, a report from a group of passionate lovers of film about what they believe is great in the present moment, then why should they define that snapshot by the parameters of an industry that views their efforts only in the crudest terms?

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.

A growing consensus of research points to chronic absence — defined by the national policy group Attendance Counts as missing 10 percent of school or more — as one of the strongest and most often overlooked indicators of a student's risk of becoming disengaged, failing courses, and eventually dropping out of school.

A November 2014 «Consensus Letter» signed by over 500 early childhood researchers attempted to define the research consensus on early childhood education.

As to the errors in the film, they are all points at which the film departs from the mainstream consensus, defined by the IPCC reports.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report stated a clear expert consensus that: «It is extremely likely [defined as 95 - 100 % certainty] that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic [human - caused] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.»

Rignot: The IPCC Report is a consensus and the projections are defined by numerical models.

There is a fairly clear consensus position on climate change among those who know something about climate, and that is summarized by the IPCC, which, contrary to our host's bluster, does list and evaluate outlying positions, but you can not define a minority position.

ie, earth has warmed, co2 a ghg, man contributes co2, warming caused in part due to man vs natural processes, for varying opinions of how big that part is) the activist have tried to label them otherwise, not believing earth has warmed (being ambiguous on cause), or not believeing co2 a ghg by never defining, the object of the consensus..

«Truth» is whatever advances the agenda toward the end goal, which is a better world as defined by a propagated societal consensus.

This latest report was made at the conclusion of these negotiations during which almost no progress was made in defining equity under UNFCCC by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform For Enhanced Action (ADP), a mechanism under the UNFCCC that seeks to achieve a adequate global climate agreement, despite a growing consensus among most observers of the UNFCCC negotiations that nations need to align their emissions reductions commitments to levels required of them by equity and justice if the world is going to prevent extremely dangerous climate change.

Over the last three years, I've had the opportunity to meet with scientists who occupy different positions on the climate spectrum: Some are out - and - out «skeptics»; some broadly agree with the so - called «consensus» but dislike its intolerance; others define themselves as «lukewarmers» or have only relatively modest disagreements with Mann & Co - yet even that can not be tolerated by the Big Climate enforcers.

Everyone agrees with the consensus as defined by Cook et al — even prominent contrarians accept it.

Those three foundation principles are: (1) operate independently from government; (2) serve the public interest (not government interest); and, (3) standards development procedures shall be based upon consensus — the achieving of consensus among all interested parties («consensus» as defined by the CAN - P - 1:2012 text, pp. 21 - 22).

Since philosophical cohesion is a prerequisite to effectuating a structure by which partners will agree to be bound, great care must be taken to: (1) determine what the partners want lawyer management to be / not to be, i.e., strong leadership, consensus builders, visionaries, functional managers, etc.; and (2) engage in extensive discussion about the partners» respective expectations for individual involvement in decision - making in defined areas, paying particular attention to those areas likely to challenge the natural independence of lawyers who have already successfully achieved partnership.

This maturation in conflict voice enables the actors to mutually reach contrition and forgiveness, by which capacity the actors are enabled to pursue the consensus goal of transforming the existing hyper - segregated hierarchical power regime, which defines their respective institutionalized power positions outside the mediation process, to sustainable democratized power structural arrangements embodying institutionalized inclusion and equity.

The consensus was that it was theoretically possible, just a lot harder because vertical planes like walls typically have less defining features that allow for easy plotting by a planar detection system.

A widespread cryptocurrency defined by the politics of community consensus, for better or worse.

Summary of Qualifications: * Motivated by the desire to make a difference in the business, to work with a highly talented set of peers, and promote client success * Outstanding work ethic high sense of urgency to resolve issues quickly and efficiently * Able to articulate issues, build consensus around recommendations, and define next steps * A high sense of responsibility to customers, business partners, colleagues to «do...

Collaboration is defined as working together or the act of working together with one or more people in order to achieve a common goal by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus.