Sentences with phrase «little agreement on»

But there was little agreement on what group or system might step into such a role.

There is little agreement on absolutes, zero points and saturation thresholds with the possible exception of a lower - level threshold described as a «zero - level» or «survival with nil need satisfaction» by Drewnowski (1974), which is associated with a sub-human level of existence.

But there is little agreement on just how that change arises.

There is little agreement on what the impacts of the warming will be, how much warming we will experience due to our actions or what actions we should take to change the course of the climate trajectory.»

(ref) That is why there is so little agreement on exact figures and procedures.

There's still little agreement on what caused the May 6 market meltdown, but the experience has a few lessons for small investors, whose fortunes were batted around along with the investments of major Wall Street players.

Sector rotation is a common trading and investment theme, but there is little agreement on what it really means.

«Some of the feedback from these conversations included that testing would be difficult since there is little agreement on action levels,» she wrote.

There also is little agreement on how many criteria need to be rated during an observation to determine if a teacher is effective and which criterion is most important.

There's little agreement on this key point.

«It is well known that certain diets, such as the ketogenic diet, have effects on seizures, but there is little agreement on the mechanism behind this diet,» said Dr. Kuebler, «This technique allows us to better address this question.»

«It is remarkable that there's so little agreement on what time is or even how to investigate a solution.»

There is substantial political stasis in the coming years with little agreement on internal or external policies.

The nearly quantum leap in campaign spending over recent decades, propelled especially by the use of television, has provoked a growing sense that something should be done, even if there is little agreement on what this something might be.

Different versions of blockchain are in development, and there's little agreement on what's the best or purest version to deploy.

Not exact matches

Signed with little ado in October, we take a closer look at the Canadian / European Union trade agreement that is focused on creating new opportunity for Canadian businesses.

U.S. financial markets were little moved by Thursday's data, with attention focused on details of a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine and a surprise interest rate cut and bond purchasing program announced by Sweden's central bank.

Canadians tentative about trade with China; more bullish on the EU, UK September 7, 2017 — As negotiators for Canada, the United States, and Mexico revealed this week they've made little progress on revising the North American Free Trade Agreement

Battalions of negotiators for Canada, Mexico and the United States have been working at a breakneck pace trying to reach agreement on a revamped North American free trade pact by the end of the year but so far they have little to show for it.

But joining the TPP also meant effectively renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with the United States under onerous terms of entry that put Canada's other traditional defensive areas on the negotiating table (including Canadian content in media, intellectual property regime preferences, telecommunications ownership policies, and remaining investment restrictions), with little prospect of any valuable concessions from the United States.

A little more than half of small and medium - size businesses believe the talks will eventually lead to a successful renegotiation of the trade deal or continue to linger on with ultimately little effect to the terms of the agreement.

But if one studies the anthropologies that have appeared in the various disciplines, one finds that this agreement has little affect on what transpires.

Despite consensus on the nature of the problem, there's little agreement about how to handle it.

With so many different and conditional views on the prospects for democracy in China, there is little agreement but significant areas of overlap between them.

• It went on for too long and achieved too little: after nine years and seven agreements, 82 percent of the West Bank is still under Israeli occupation, while 1.4 million Palestinians are denied access to nearly 40 percent of the Gaza Strip, where Israeli troops protect the luxurious lifestyle of 6,000 settlers.

A little later my dad came in and sat down on the edge of the bed and said quietly that we should have a conversation about Sunday Mass, and probably I was now old enough to make my own decisions about attending Mass, that he and my mother did not think it right or fair to force that decision on us children, that we needed to find our own ways spiritually, and that while he and our mother very much hoped that we would walk in the many rewarding paths of the Church, the final decision there would be ours alone, each obeying his own conscience; that was only right and fair, and to decree attendance now would perhaps actually force us away from the very thing that he and my mother found to be the most nutritious spiritual food; so perhaps you and I and your mother can sit and discuss this later this afternoon, he said, and come to some amicable agreement.

I have a fun little agreement with my husband that on Sundays, I will make him whatever dish that he wants, no healthy food.

But while focusing on getting the business up and running, many give little thought to the backbone of the successful partnership: the franchise agreement.

The contractual talks between Ozil, Alexis and Arsenal seem to have been going on for some time now, without little to show that an agreement is near.

@ jo jo i am in total agreement with you as i expected today almost everyone is going on about how bad we are ect i just watched the highlights again to make sure i wasnt watching another game we out played the spuds for over 30 mins in the first half lioris had to make 4 good saves and all were shoots from distance wilshire was very good as with ramsey we then dominated again in the second half with more good shoots and saves buy the spud keeper yes its disapointing but we were much the better team maybe you all listened to phill neville but you should know by now we have to have an amazing game to be given any credit by pundits and talk of chelski scoring 8 against us when they beat villa 3 — 0 have some respect for your club lads we need to do better but i think its coming have a little faith

Usually we could tell you who is going to go first overall, but this is one of those drafts where it's a little unclear even if basically everyone is in agreement on who the top talent is.

While Arsenal appear to have brokered an agreement with the Chile Football Federation to delay Sanchez's departure to his homeland, Wenger accepts should La Roja progress through the championships which culminate at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, then there would be little option but to give one of their star men some extra recovery time ahead of the new domestic campaign which kicks off on August 8.

But for all the discussion of noncognitive factors in recent years, there has been little conclusive agreement on how best to help young people develop them.

The agreement would have included reducing the number of retention basins to five from eight, decreasing water storage around a Little League concession area, providing for more underground storm - water storage and restoring the fields on the park's southwest side.

Yet today's maternity care climate is highly technical and extremely complex, and there is little agreement even among the experts on which of the many available options are most suitable for a particular woman.

My basic argument is we should be trying to find a way of accommodating public concern over migration and to do it while remaining in the European Union... I still believe with a little bit of pragmatism on both sides it would be possible to reach [an agreement].»

The survey also showed cross-party agreement on the degree of priority given to LEPs but the picture is a little more complicated when it comes to the Northern Powerhouse, the series of policies to support economic growth in Northern cities.

Klein voiced agreement with the governor on the comptroller issue, but was a little bit vague on who should be doing the contract oversight.

Moira Kelly, chair of the CIOT Scottish Technical Committee, said: «The agreement between the UK and Scottish Governments on the continued operation of pensions relief and Marriage Allowance are both practical and pragmatic and give taxpayers and advisers much needed certainty a little over two weeks before the start of the new tax year.

Wright and his fellow Democrats met late Thursday behind closed doors, but emerged without agreement on the housing programs and with little appetite to trade stronger rent control for a tax credit offsetting education donations, a linkage that Capital reported Monday and Cuomo confirmed in a Thursday interview with the New York Times.

First, however, lawmakers must come to agreements on a long list of issues, including many policy proposals that have little to do with state finances.

Outside parliament, protestors had little sympathy for MPs planning on abstaining - a move allowed for in the coalition agreement.

An agreement both Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio agree on may be unlikely — the two have agreed on very little over the last several months, and Mr. Cuomo has repeatedly and publicly criticized Mr. de Blasio's handling of the homelessness issue, particularly hitting him on the condition of the city's shelters.

Agreements on the highest - priority issues are frequently reached on or after the last scheduled meeting, so lawmakers dedicate their gatherings to passing one - house bills that stand little chance of becoming law in the immediate future and plowing through hundreds of completely uncontroversial pieces of legislation that rename bridges or create new license plate designs.

ALBANY — While nobody can say the Legislature had an unproductive Wednesday, lawmakers went home having made little progress on most of the big - ticket items awaiting agreement.

Cuomo personally traveled to Western New York to announce a repowering agreement for a coal - burning facility in Dunkirk that would switch it to natural gas and keep the town's revenue base intact, largely by forcing utility ratepayers o pay a little extra on their monthly bills.

The formal agreement to acquire the former Republic Steel property on South Park Avenue comes a little more than three months after New York State agreed to the basic terms of the land acquisition and clears a key hurdle in the Buffalo Billion initiative to jump - start the long - sagging Buffalo Niagara economy with fast - growing, technology - based businesses.

However, what was said on tax in the agreement was a little enigmatic, so we will have to listen carefully to pick up more of the detail — including, especially, when changes will take effect.

With little progress on an international climate change agreement, state and municipal governments worldwide are coming together to address the issue.

Although Erie County has no control over any of these little governments, we can play a part in helping to reduce the tax burden they place on residents by developing cooperative agreements with them to cut the cost of duplicative services.