Sentences with phrase «establish a consensus on»

We are trying to establish a consensus on a legal framework that adapts to evolving responses — such as targeted killing - to restrict the ever - expanding hand of the state.

[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.

They're right, of course: The «97 percent» statistic was never meant to establish a consensus on the dangers of climate change.

Part II of the Conference will be action - oriented, building on the discussions at Part I and seeking to establish a consensus on the national coordination of civil justice reform.

Establishing consensus on regional MLS ownership, governance, money flow, product and service mix, leadership and staffing, and other aspects of what the new or evolving organization could look like as quickly as possible is a key part of the process.

Not exact matches

The national consensus on the need to reduce federal and provincial deficits and to establish a more competitive fiscal framework;

To bring clarity and order with a rules - based system that is anchored on community consensus, the GBX intends to establish an international forum with representatives from cross-sections of the community to form the GBX Alliance.

Professor Woo, President of the newly established Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, talks about the watershed moment in the country's recent economic history and argues for a bi-partisan consensus around «an inclusive national development» plan as the only way forward.

Thus papal absolutism contradicts much in the historical Catholic tradition that defends these more pluralistic sources of truth that engage in dialogue and make official definitions only when a broad consensus has been established on a particular issue.

Postnatal external constraint is by far the most common cause, although the incidence is not fully established because of the lack of consensus on the criteria to be used in making the diagnosis.

It is not «As - Mad - as - Snakes - in - a-Sack», it may involve talking with many strands from the civil society but a consensus on protective measures can soon be established as the basis for UN-sanctioned action or even EU / Nato if game - playing strangles the will of the former to be of use.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

This week Mr Blair is visiting a number of the new member states to try to establish a «consensus» on the EU budget.

But then we had to find a consensus on the «big questions» which weren't part of our core issues but were the main differences between the established parties.

16 July 2003: Responding to the report by the joint committee on Lords reform, the government says that there is no consensus in parliament for introducing any elected element into the second chamber, only for removing the remaining 92 hereditary peers and establishing a new independent appointments commission.

A commission, modelled on the Browne review on university tuition fees, could be established to build a consensus.

By 2001 this Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) managed to establish a consensus, phrased so cautiously that scarcely any expert or government representative dissented.

By the summer of 1999, the recommendations for change had been distributed to all principal investigators, administrative officers, and postdoctoral fellows and a consensus was established on details of implementation of the recommendations.

At a hearing before the House of Representatives Science Committee last week, John Doolittle, a Republican from California, said that research implicating CFCs in the destruction of ozone is «very much open to debate», and there is «no established consensus» on the role of CFCs.

However... the scientific consensus is that it can not be established that the recession of snows on Mt Kilimanjaro is mainly attributable to human - induced climate change.

Highly motivated people openly cast doubt on well - established evidence — the theory of evolution, the human effects on climate change, the value of vaccines and other findings that have achieved an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community.

Led by Jessica S. Merlin, M.D., visiting associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the study pinpointed the common concerning behaviors, identified management strategies and established areas of consensus on the importance of each strategy.

* By denying the impacts of AGW on polar bears, bloggers aim to cast doubt on other established ecological consequences of AGW, aggravating the consensus gap.

As to the participation of New Member countries in the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), a general consensus has been established in Item 4 of Article 4 of the Statutes of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), as follows: «On the basis of the principle that the opportunity to become a Management Supporting Party (MSP) be open to all interested countries, the Board of Trustees (BOT) decides on the acceptance of new Management Supporting Parties after considering such factors as: 1) the country's scientific capacity in basic research in the research areas of the Program; and 2) the degree of support for the Program.&raquOn the basis of the principle that the opportunity to become a Management Supporting Party (MSP) be open to all interested countries, the Board of Trustees (BOT) decides on the acceptance of new Management Supporting Parties after considering such factors as: 1) the country's scientific capacity in basic research in the research areas of the Program; and 2) the degree of support for the Program.&raquon the acceptance of new Management Supporting Parties after considering such factors as: 1) the country's scientific capacity in basic research in the research areas of the Program; and 2) the degree of support for the Program.»

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.

Her experience is varied and includes developing and implementing training programs for dog owners and veterinary professionals; working as a research assistant on several canine behavioral genetics projects at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; serving as editor for a scientific working group tasked with establishing consensus - based best practices for the use of canine / handler detection teams and setting standards for their certification; serving as the first editorial assistant for the Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research; co-authoring more than 10 peer - reviewed publications and owning and operating a home - based editing business.

Now that the scientific consensus on climate change has been established by the IPCC, perhaps the time has come to reasonably and sensibly address the ominously looming threats to human wellbeing, biodiversity and environmental health that are posed by global warming.

«His effort will focus on providing curriculum that shows that the topic of climate change is a well established consensus and certain — two key points that are effective at persuading teachers to teach the science.»

The charts in question are among the best known in the portfolio of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the established curators of the scientific consensus on global warming and the UN's chief scientific advisors to climate treaty negotiators.

Given that climate is governed by well established (by consensus) laws on transfer and conservation of energy, and we can measure most of the key flows and modifying factors, it seems unlikely.

Yet once they are established, if that can be managed, what is to stop them being eroded again when new contentious science prompts culture behaviors writ large (e.g. like the climate change domain) or small (e.g. like the consensus on saturated fats)?

Rather than imposing scientific principles on IPCC, United Nations allowed IPCC to be governed by: — the unscientific principle of a mission to support an established view (§ 1)-- the unscientific principle of consensus (§ 10)-- an approval process and organization principle which must, by it's nature, diminish dissenting views.

The concept of «sustainability» was an established part of the international agenda long before the IPCC produced an «unequivocal» consensus on climate; the IPCC was established to create a consensus for political ends.

The idea of there being scientists on the one hand, opposed by irrational sceptics on the other has been established so concretely that few editors, peer - reviewers or journalists even bother to ask questions about the content of the consensus, much less about how it is contradicted by the substance of climate sceptics» arguments.

The committee will help develop a consensus but its main role is to establish a mechanism for putting a price on carbon.

The Earth has warmed 0.85 °C from 1880 (preindustrial times) to 2012, according to the latest consensus science reported in September by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific body established by the United Nations to inform governments of climate risks.

Despite the common perception that opinions vary across different parts of the country, survey data analyzed by Jon Krosnick at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment establishes that the vast majority of Americans are in agreement with the scientific consensus on global warming.

In terms of establishing consensus however, the difference between a consensus of 91 % and 97 % is negligible in terms of items to action on.

The cross-party consensus on climate has allowed its parties to establish political power and technocracies above the institutions of national democracy, and excused themselves from having to debate it.

On the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate changOn the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate changon our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate change.

The lopsided consensus of working (i.e. publishing in peer - reviewed specialist venues) climate scientists for AGW is justified by the established methods of the Earth Sciences, on a firm foundation of basic Physics.

«51 % vulnerability:» Blockchain «relies on the distributed consensus mechanism to establish mutual trust.However, the consensus mechanism itself has 51 % vulnerability, which can be exploited by attackers to control the entire blockchain.

The consensus reads,» A Quiet Place artfully plays on elemental fears with a ruthlessly intelligent creature feature that's as original as it is scary — and establishes director John Krasinski as a rising talent.»

nChain also supports the formation of a neutral organization to ensure community consensus on the future direction of Bitcoin protocol and technical standards, i.e. ensuring that Bitcoin Core adherents such as Greg Maxwell, Adam Back and their established banking industry backers can't hijack the technology for their personal enrichment.

«If we prove that consensus by known people can be an economic model for blockchains, we will open the opportunity for many businesses to establish networks based on this approach,» said Barinov, co-founder and project manager of Oracles Network.

Second, it is more difficult to reduce excessive weight in adolescents and adults once it becomes established; therefore, it may be helpful to initiate obesity prevention interventions during early childhood.16 There is a growing consensus that the appropriate period to target obesity prevention interventions is the early years in a child's life.17 The aim of the present review was, therefore, to examine the evidence for environmental influences on dietary determinants of obesity, focusing on younger children (birth to 8 years).

A panel of experts used a consensus process to analyse and discuss the data, and to grade the level of evidence and strength of recommendations according to established methods of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.

The models used in NSW differ from those established in other states in that, the participants actually sit in a circle, it is not usually held in a formal court setting, the circle attempts to achieve consensus on the sentence and the circle reconvenes, a few months later, to review the progress of the offender or status of the sentence.