Sentences with phrase «do unanimity»

Not exact matches

That said, if one partner feels strongly about an investment that the others question, «we don't want to force unanimity,» says Lonsdale.

For the Arabs who make up most of the Antiochian Patriarchate, there is hardly a word for «consensus» in Arabic that doesn't essentially mean «unanimity.»

But while Antioch did have problems with one of the documents, and while it is also concerned that the council not take any measures that would break pan-Orthodox unanimity, the key to its non-participation is the fact that the Patriarchate of Antioch is currently not in communion with another ancient apostolic Orthodox see, that of Jerusalem.

Brunner's stanch adherence to Personalism in spite of what he takes to be philosophical unanimity against it does not involve him in irrationalism.

Last week there was unanimity on one point: Batesville had its best shot in three years of winning the New Castle regional, god willing the creeks don't rise and 6» 5» forward Aaron Ertel gets his stroke back.

I was talking to some friends yesterday, and we all were in unanimity that, at least to the extent of top teams or exciting football, Week 12 didn't have much to offer.

It's true that other countries do require unanimity.

Last night, the House of Commons did a remarkable thing: on a contentious and vital issue, it found virtual unanimity.

• The fate of Atlantic Yards now rests with State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, who controls one of three votes on the Public Authorities Control Board, which requires unanimity to pass a project — and he boasts an impressive megaproject kill ratio, having already done in the West Side stadium and put the brakes on Moynihan Station.

«The President says it is quite unfortunate and inconceivable that the forces of evil do not relent on their activities, but expresses confidence that with the unanimity of purpose from all forces around the world, the workers and perpetrators of these evil acts will not prevail.

To peels of applause, she turned down Bolivian objections, saying «consensus does not mean unanimity, nor does it mean one delegation has the right to impose a veto.»

Of course, it is very difficult to find unanimity in research findings — and if we did, we might question the results — but the overwhelming number of research studies continue to support Grutter's findings regarding 1) the educational benefits of diversity and 2) the need to continue to consider race in a limited manner to achieve these benefits.

Although the IPCC claims near unanimity for its conclusions, 11 there remain a significant number of skeptics who do not agree.

I don't think it's likely that you could get 97 % of any particular group to have near unanimity in opinions about anything terribly complex.

It seems that the definition of «consensus» varies by field, just as the decision - making framework does, with unanimity or near unanimity expected from the scientific community, even including those scientists who in many cases have not really embedded themselves in the literature nor been required to put together a coherent assembly and analysis of scientific knowledge (and even including, somehow, CEI's [Competitive Enterprise Institute] lawyers with their ExxonMobil support, who are often quoted as the contrary view in papers on the science of climate change).

2 This response, Brulle wrote, doesn't reflect «the near unanimity of the scientific community about anthropogenic [i.e., man - made] climate change.»

Consensus does not mean unanimity.

Nonetheless, in a nod toward the unanimity of the scientific community, he added: «This report does provide us with enough evidence to move forward in a responsible, reasonable and achievable way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

If the balance is very lopsided, does this raise confidence instead, or is unanimity required?

Indeed, the court's decision acknowledges a plain interpretation of the statute does suggest the need for unanimity.

Chief Justices bang heads, twist arms, and break legs in order to get their courts to produce more of it, but they don't always succeed, and unanimity remains at least somewhat scarce on the U.S. and Canadian Supreme Courts (although more on the former than on the latter, which has been unanimous in judgment in between two thirds and three quarters of its decisions rendered since 2010).

But how much do we really know about the economics of unanimity?

My speculation is that the Court did not make a decision on remedy because it was divided on that question, and could not achieve unanimity if it did so.