Sentences with phrase «general agreement on»

While other psychologists have proposed schemes that vary from this one theory, there is general agreement on its broad outlines.

Despite general agreement on these points, universities sometimes sell to patent assertion entities like mega-troll Intellectual Ventures or dietary supplement troll ThermoLife.

It is necessary to point out that member countries enjoy exceptions, which are stipulated in the General Agreement on Customs Tariffs and Trade and in the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

Non-discrimination in international trade is fundamental and predates the WTO, going back to what is technically the WTO's predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

Note on Applicability: These principles also apply to trade in services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the Agreement on Trade - Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

• Canadian Bar Association, Submission the General Agreement on Trade in Services and the Legal Profession: The Accountancy Disciplines as a Model for the Legal Profession (Aug. 2000)

There is now general agreement on the law that, «in determining whether the offer to settle ought reasonably have been accepted the court does not consider the final result... The reasonableness of a decision not to accept an offer must be assessed... [by] the circumstances existing when the offer was open to acceptance:» [Ward at para. 36].

Of course, the U.S. patent owner could also have his cause taken up by U.S. diplomats who could press his cause, either unilaterally in trade or other negotiations, or before General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or World Trade Organization arbitration panels who could hear the case and decree a remedy that might or might not benefit the individual patent owner.

For example, discussions are ongoing about legal services falling under GATT, the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs.

The application of the principle of proportionality may be observed in a variety of international law settings, including cases in which the proportionality of countermeasures taken in trade disputes is challenged before a WTO Panel under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade («GATT»).

The cases for more complex chemical and aerosol effects were becoming clear, but the scientific community was unable at the time to reach general agreement on the existence, scale and magnitude of these indirect effects.

GATT (1994), United States - Restrictions on Imports of Tuna, Report of the Panel DS29 / R, June 16, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Geneva.

While there is general agreement on how solar forcing varied during the last several hundred years — all reconstructions are proportional to the solar activity — there is scientific controversy on the magnitude of solar forcing.

I'm guessing Latitude, who made the claim, is in the 2 - 5 epistemological category; what I got from reading the level 1 - 2 epistemological reports is general agreement on (2.3 + / -0.5) x10 ^ -4 parts of unity CO2 for the half - million years or more before 1750 AD.

It now seems we are in general agreement on the basics which is a good start.

The site says very clearly, there is general agreement on savings of» ~ 0.07 °C by the year 2050».

Earlier on this site, National Journal's energy blog, and MasterResource.Org, I opined that Markey's proposal would violate U.S. treaty obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Border adjustments could reduce the loss of competitiveness and make the costs of U.S. producers more similar to those of producers in countries that do not impose comparable policies, but such adjustments could be difficult to implement and to defend if challenged as being inconsistent with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), one of the component agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

For one thing, as explained on this site and MasterResource.Org, an export ban would violate U.S. treaty obligations under both the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

An alternative would be to structure an open - ended agreement modeled on the iterative negotiation process of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

A General Agreement on Climate Change (GACC) would consist of core agreements on allowable national contributions to global warming over time and would enable a wide range of other agreements on technology transfer, funding mechanisms and other issues as needed to accommodate the interests of nations.

There seems to be general agreement on this point.

I'd say we are in general agreement on the many buttons.

(In 1991, I wrote a piece in Nature calling for a General Agreement on Climate Change that was in part naïve and in part on the right track).

While it does not appear to publish this information on its website anywhere, there is general agreement on the forums that you need to have earned 1,000,000 base points during your membership.

In the General Agreement on Tariffs in Services (GATS), the annex on air transport explicitly limits coverage of air services to only aircraft repair and maintenance, computer reservation systems, and selling and marketing of air transportation.

The Tennessee Republican says there's general agreement on some changes, like setting realistic goals.

While we have general agreement on the importance of an annual test to measure whether students are learning to read and do math on grade level, we still often find too much test prep in our schools.

At Deans for Impact, an organization composed of leaders of programs that prepare new teachers, we believe that part of what distinguishes members of a profession is general agreement on a body of domain - specific knowledge that is relevant to practice.

Despite general agreement on the need for federal intervention to improve the quality and supply of child care, speakers disagreed over the severity of the problem and how to resolve it.

Prof. Joost Pauwelyn, a law professor at Duke University subsequently published U.S. Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns: The Limits and Options of International Trade Law, which holds out strong hope that border tax adjustments could pass muster under WTO and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs & Trades) rules.

The incoming government will be faced, besides much else, by many significant problems relating to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

They also fear that approval of the convention would have undermined their government's tough stance on intellectual property rights in the latest round of negotiations for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

It might be possible to impose some kind of fee on imported tar sands oil (though that would have to be done in such a way as to not trigger problems with GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]-RRB-.

If Cable were serious on the economy, he would have called for rallying round Europe, rebutting Tory eurozone attacks (a unique role for the Lib Dems) to save ourselves and the world economy, the UK, the US, the Swiss — and all others who need to stand together and contribute to a global emergency fund, and a general agreement on universal stimulus and growth, or we're all lost.

A civilised society should have a system which encourages competition to raise animal welfare standards, not competition to lower them and we should not jeopardise our farming industry simply because of some arbitrary rules set down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

The WTO was created in 1995 to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the multilateral trade framework established in 1948 as an interim measure on the way to a proposed International Trade Organisation operating alongside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

«The Greater Manchester [combined authority] arrangement at the moment is we have Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour authorities and the fact that the combined authority works, and we hardly ever have a vote, is because there is general agreement on the way forward.

We were a founding member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt), the WTO's predecessor, and we're a founding member of the WTO.

The incorporation of development logic in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was a slow process.

While the document revealed important disagreements about the role of journalism, there was a general agreement on a few crucial points: journalists must report relentlessly, get outside of the bubble, call a lie a lie, follow the money and don't get distracted by Twitter!

There is not a general agreement on what normal weight gain for a baby is.

While there's some general agreement on most teams between the two sportsbooks, the biggest discrepancies appear to be on the Astros, Royals, Twins, and Reds.

On the other hand there is no general agreement on the subject, and many scholars prefer to accept the disarrangements of the present gospel order as due to some other cause, i.e. the use of sources, the dictation of the gospel in a number of stages, or the carelessness of the author.

Global trade, and therefore the global economy, is governed by a set of rules known as GATT, that is, General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs.

After World War II the institutions that rose to dominance were economic ones: The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

Globally the United States pushed the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

The successive rounds of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade had been pushing for the reduction of barriers to trade from soon after World War II.

This pressure has been intensified by the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the subsequent creation of the World Trade Organization.

With the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the new World Trade Organization, they can no longer protect their financial and service institutions from competition with transnational corporations.