Sentences with phrase «in building consensus»

Combs also is a big believer in building consensus rather than forcing a decision on a group.

Expert in building consensus around winning strategies, and the associated goals and action plans.

True, there have been some contentious debates over the right path to expanding the renewable energy economy in North Carolina, but earlier this summer it appeared as though we had turned a corner in building consensus on prioritizing renewable energy as an economic driver in our state.

NSPRA is striving to be a sensible voice and a national leader in building consensus and moving forward.

He has proven skills in building consensus among diverse stake - holders and in identifying and resolving organizational roadblocks to success.

We would like to see how seriously the commission is taking it, in building consensus with civil society and the rest of Nigerians to deal with the issue.»

Senator Larkin believes in building consensus and working together to move our communities forward.

Not exact matches

Building consensus may work well in small companies, but not in large enterprises when multiple vice-presidents are involved.

«There» s an emerging consensus that we can't build a recovery on poverty wage jobs, and these are the fastest growing jobs in the economy,» says Paul Sonn, legal co-director for the National Employment Law Project.

In the months and weeks leading up to the congressional debate, she's met with dozens of lawmakers, conservative advocacy organizations, and business groups to build consensus and support for a plan that adopts parts of a 2015 proposal by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee.

A wealthy Republican lawyer and investment banker, Powell left the private equity world in 2010 to join the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, D.C, think tank, where he quietly lobbied Congress to raise the debt ceiling, building consensus during the politically charged standoff in 2011.

The IEA and other agencies like it need to become more publicly involved in getting out the message, building consensus and providing data that people can understand.

This is called consensus, which is built into the code, where a super-majority must come together to make changes in the code and it must be agreed upon.

We spoke with more than half a dozen current and former Twitter employees, and the general consensus is that there isn't anyone in the building ready to step up in a Noto - like role.

In effect, many of the basic economic and ideological conflicts of the country were built into the commission from the outset, and the process of writing a report inevitably became an effort at consensus building.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal KvislePublished in the Hill Times - December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how...

In his memoir «The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath,» Ben Bernanke illustrated frequent interaction and consensus building between the Fed Chair and Governors of the Board, as well as strong influences by the New York Fed President.

But instead of trying to build a national consensus in favour of projects like Keystone XL, the Conservative government demonized opposition to the pipelines in Canada.

Now I think that was helpful in building capital — personal capital — because at times during the crisis we had to act more quickly without taking the time to build consensus.

Trust could be built if the Ecumenical Patriarch were to show sensitivity to the ways in which different Orthodox cultures understand «consensus» — a concept that has been mentioned often in connection with the council.

And I expect to be able to help in this area over the coming months, so that we can achieve together this «consensus building» (Susan George) around the story.

And, we expect that this meeting will be able to build a consensus just as the men of Davos are doing on the other side in the neo-liberal domain.

In his book, Leading Change, John P. Kotter wrote, «You have to explain the reason for change, build consensus and develop the vision of the new.»

Gross was involved in the project, which helped «implement activities in support of the rule of law and human rights, political competition, and consensus building, and to strengthen civil society in support of just and democratic governance in Cuba,» according to a statement from DAI President and CEO Jim Boomgard at the time of Gross» arrest.

The present pluralism - in - isolation which characterizes much of evangelical thought must give way, as an initial step in the consensus - building process, to a pluralism - in - dialogue.22 Diversity must be faced openly and in love, as evangelicals together seek theological consensus.

-LSB-...] Global governance can be «described» as the new global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based NGOs.

As IIS often highlighted it, the UN consensus - building exercise of the 1990s, which set the framework in which global governance operates today, hijacked humanity's universal aspirations at the end of the Cold War.

In his address to the College of Cardinals in 2014, in numerous interviews since then, and in personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessoIn his address to the College of Cardinals in 2014, in numerous interviews since then, and in personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessoin 2014, in numerous interviews since then, and in personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessoin numerous interviews since then, and in personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessoin personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessor.

That is, will the faith - communities while keeping their separate identities be prepared in the present historical situation of pluralism, to interact with each other bringing their respective religious and / or ideological insights on the conception of the human so as to build something of a consensus of cultural and moral values on which to build a single larger secular community?

But in practice «consensus - building» has proven to be a new, Western way of imposing a deconstruction agenda on all.

At this point, Palin will do anything to stay in the spotlight, even though she has lost all credibility as a woman of tolerance and intellect that can build consensus.

The convenient and specious separation of form and content in worship often lies at the heart of the broader Evangelical movement as a means of facilitating inter-church alliances and building consensus has, I suspect, spilled over into other Christian traditions too.

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In 2014, the 1st International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition provided an opportunity to share experiences and build the evidence base on agroecology, as well as reaching a consensus on the priorities for achieving more sustainable food systems through agroecology.

(20 March 2015) Building on the concept of Organic 3.0, IFOAM - Organics International and its partners in the Sustainable Organic Agriculture Action Network (SOAAN) continue broadening consensus that the organic sector must break out of its niche status.

So yes, there will be winners and losers in Indianapolis, but teams are now coming out of draft meetings with early boards set and consensus starting to come together within their building on who should fall where.

It seems to be general consensus that Mustafi has been a great buy for Arsenal, as he has been able to build a solid partnership with Laurent Koscielny and the Gunners have not lost a single league match that the former Valencia player has started in.

It looks like the general consensus is we want to be welcoming but remember that the focus of the party is for bloggers to build genuine online friends and increase their readership in a fun, organic way.

All stakeholder delegates were engaged in this consensus - building process.

This recognition of the Quartet's efforts might encourage political rivals in other countries in the region to set aside their disagreements and look for possible common space to engage together in a similar process of consensus - building.

Sturgeon has launched what she describes as «the biggest listening exercise in our party's history»: a three - month consultation with more than two million Scots from September to 30 November — St Andrew's Day — to try and build a consensus view on Scotland's post-Brexit vote future.

Cristina, while gradually building up her own reputation in executive - level leadership (some praise her on policy but condemn her on personality, criticizing her for being confrontational, autocratic and unwilling to seek consensus and consult others) portrayed herself as merely continuing and expanding the policies that her husband started.

The unilateral nature of the action puts it on more shaky ground, but a missile strike on a base is not going to remove Assad, in and of itself, and is not in conjunction with the seizing of any territory, so the claim that it threatens the «territorial integrity or political independence» would be difficult to build a consensus around.

In this quadrant the agenda is negotiable by all participants and participation is intended to build consensus or mutual understanding.

«In their mutual distrust, unions and government are missing the opportunity to build a progressive consensus in the workplace, to address questions of low pay and equal pay, income inequality, working time and flexibility, training and skills, anti-discrimination and the role of worker - voice institutions,» he saiIn their mutual distrust, unions and government are missing the opportunity to build a progressive consensus in the workplace, to address questions of low pay and equal pay, income inequality, working time and flexibility, training and skills, anti-discrimination and the role of worker - voice institutions,» he saiin the workplace, to address questions of low pay and equal pay, income inequality, working time and flexibility, training and skills, anti-discrimination and the role of worker - voice institutions,» he said.

It also strengthens political parties in general, providing an intermediary between the state and the voters which can build pre-election coalitions which are important to developing a consensus among the people in support of a coherent set of policies.

In the preceding years, a strong movement calling for this had built up in opposition to the ruling Conservative governments, which many opponents claimed had undermined the social and economic consensus that had prevailed until then - particularly in respect of labour rightIn the preceding years, a strong movement calling for this had built up in opposition to the ruling Conservative governments, which many opponents claimed had undermined the social and economic consensus that had prevailed until then - particularly in respect of labour rightin opposition to the ruling Conservative governments, which many opponents claimed had undermined the social and economic consensus that had prevailed until then - particularly in respect of labour rightin respect of labour rights.

«District Attorney Rice is exactly what we need in government today: tough, progressive, thoughtful and able to build consensus across the state in order to solve everyday problems,» Bishop said in a statement released by Rice's campaign.

«As the IDC has long believed, the best way to govern is by building consensus, working across the aisle, and advancing common sense proposals that move New York forward,» Klein said in a statement.