Sentences with phrase «more by consensus»

They make decisions more by consensus than by fiat.

Not exact matches

The consensus from psychologists is that the test — invented more than 50 years ago by mother - daughter duo Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers — is too rigid and fails to provide context or leave room for people to change.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

Julia Coronado, a former Fed economist and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, says Powell's greater familiarity with banking and finance than monetary policy makes him more likely to follow the consensus, often driven by staff forecasts, on interest rate policy.

The entire executive team, which makes decisions by consensus, has the same paycheck, and the total cash compensation paid to any employee in a calendar year is restricted to no more than 19 times the average annual wage, including bonuses, of all full - time employees.

First the good news: It's $ 242 million in revenues beat consensus estimates by about $ 22 million and it made a whopping 116 % more than it did the year before.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), formed more than half a century ago, has historically struggled with challenges facing the region because it works only by consensus and is reluctant to get involved in any matter deemed to be internal to any of its members.

But more than anyone, Mr. Schäuble has come to embody the consensus that has helped shape European economic policy for years: that the path to sustained economic recovery for financially troubled countries is to slash spending, raise taxes when necessary and win back the trust of bond markets and other investors by displaying commitment to fiscal prudence — even if that process imposes deep economic pain as it plays out.

With the emerging weakness in consumer and retail related securities, it's also a trap that suggests more economic weakness than expected by the consensus.

Gross margins were 37.9 percent during the quarter, slightly below the 38 percent expected by a StreetAccount consensus estimate — meaning Apple is selling products that are more expensive to make.

At the time the former seemed a more dangerous risk than the latter — although even then massive overinvestment was China's true vulnerability — but I think by now there is a rapidly developing consensus that investment, and the unsustainable concomitant increase in debt, is China's biggest problem.

Here's what you need to know: PROFIT FORECAST: Analysts expect Societe Generale's first - quarter net profit to grow by more than 8 % to 811.5 million euros ($ 972.6 million), according to a consensus forecast provided by FactSet.

The Wall Street consensus estimates for the iPhone appears to be that last quarter's sales will be up 2 %, and that revenue will be up by 13 %, with more to come...

With jittery public markets, growing interest by large healthcare systems and an increased appetite to make plays in the regulated space (which may demand more resources), the consensus is that we should see more strategic investments and acquisitions and potentially consolidation in the coming year.

The world's problems are driving investors to precious metals By Ellsworth Dickson The above headline sums up the consensus among the various speakers at the Money, Metals & Mining Symposium... Read more»

Despite consensus optimism, non-bank financial institutions» appetite for corporate debt is being cited as a source of risk by more prudent institutions.

Canada has also not moved to align itself with the growing international consensus that the term of copyright protection is more appropriately the life of the author (known as pma, or post mortem auctoris) plus 70 years, as adopted by the US, all EU countries and a number of others.

Revenue jumped by more than 5 % to $ 1.15 billion, beating the consensus forecast among those following the stock by more than $ 100 million.

Private sector consensus forecasts were off by even more.1

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If the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident — herein lies the real challenge for democracy.»

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Unlike the idea of culture as a consensus - forming social phenomenon that resists change, the postmodern spirit is more impressed by the lack of consensus in cultures and by the dynamics for social change that already exist in cultures.

The research continued, and in May 1982 the National Institute of Mental Health released the findings of a ten - year follow - up to the surgeon general's 1972 study: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

The more liberal Krishna Kanth, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, in his address to the Assembly of the National Council of Churches in 1991 and following it in a press interview with Neerge Choudhury (Indian Express 21 Oct. 1991) «called for an end to religious conversion in the country, not by law but by a voluntary consensus of religious leaders», because in his opinion, communal strife is closely linked to conversion.

17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

We believe that there are many Christians whose moral inclinations might persuade them to take the same view of current problems as our own, except for the fact that they are inhibited by religious presuppositions that they regard as more «purely» Christian than those represented by the consensus of the Church through all the ages.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

This methodology regards all theological «truths» as molded by circumstance and culture; it takes more seriously the pluralism of the modern world and the importance of democratic consensus in church government.

The louder the reaction, the more attention it gets, and a winner is determined by consensus.

However, by consistently seeking «to restrict immigration, renegotiate trade deals, and transgress our current foreign policy consensus,» as promised in his campaign, Trump has displayed «more integrity than many politicians.»

But research continued, and in May of 1982, the National Institute for Mental Health released the findings of a 10 - year follow up on the Surgeon General «s 1972 Study entitled Television and Behavior: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

The consensus is that the underclassmen (led by Haley Jones and Karisma Osborne) are even more talented.

In the process of transfer, the money is settled by two club consensus, the More...

The number of scientists and clinicians who have called over the last several years for more accurate reporting by the media on concussions and CTE, criticized the reporting of strongly presented causal assumptions relating to concussive and subconcussive brain impact exposure as «scientifically premature,» and highlighted the negative real world consequences to such one - sided reporting, has grown to consensus proportions, but have largely flown beneath the media's radar.

The ACSM consensus statement appears to reject earlier guidelines (Colorado and AAN) that focused heavily on loss of consciousness and retrograde amnesia (RGA) and to endorse the retrospective approach of the Cantu revised and Prague guidelines in viewing an approach to the return - to - play decision that considered «RGA, PTA, as well as the number and duration of additional signs and symptoms» as «more accurate in predicting severity and outcome ¡ -[and hence] more useful,» and by endorsing an individualized RTP decision, not one «based on a rigid timeline» [like the Colorado, AAN and Cantu Revised Guidelines)

Although the Australian work of McIntosh (2010) found that infants under two who spent one night or more a week and toddlers who spend 10 days a month of overnight time in their non-primary caregiver's care are more irritable, more severely distressed and insecure in their relationships with their primary parent, less persistent at tasks, and more physically and emotionally stressed, this study has been largely discredited by a recently published consensus report endorsed by 110 child development experts (Warshak, 2013), which found that McIntosh drew unwarranted conclusions from her unrepresentative and flawed data.

«I am so grateful to receive the endorsement of the New York State Democratic Committee in my campaign for DNC Vice Chair, and even more excited by the unified consensus behind my #LeadershipForTomorrow vision,» Blake said.

In Labour, key binding decisions were crafted by consenting comrades in compositing cabals, the Liberals braved the perilous political fringes to challenge the timid and brain - comatose, while the Tories orgied in flag - waving Nuremberg Rally - induced hysteria — all no more, drowned in the syrup sea of consensus.

The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].

These political choices can be explained not only by its willingness to preserve its founding principles, but also, more practically, to maintain its underlying electoral consensus.

«This is democracy at work,» he said, adding that he believed the decision not to prioritise Brexit for debate was motivated by «a feeling that there needs to be a bit more consensus - building, rather than dividing the party at the moment».

While much is made of the continuity between Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Diana Abbott and others with the legacy projects of the Labour left, and the absurd attempts by self - proclaimed «moderates» to conjure up the ghost of the early 1980s; the far more significant phenomenon is the discontinuity with the establishment consensus about austerity economics, and the development of economic policies by John McDonnell and his team which commit a future Labour government to calibrated state intervention for a capitalist economy that works.

Indeed, one of the reasons why so many voters feel betrayed by Nick Clegg is that, even on the actual result this year, it could be argued that the true consensus was to cut public spending more slowly.

But the Senate is controlled by Republicans, and the Assembly by Democrats, making a consensus candidate more difficult.

The role of Speaker at one level is confined to chairing debates in the Commons, but in the current crisis caused by the expenses row, there is a consensus that the position is more public and will require driving a reform agenda that sees the executive brought under control.

«We hope that the consensus among plant scientists presented here is heard by policymakers, the business community, and, more importantly, the general public and initiates a new conversation on how best to implement GM tools to improve crops for sustainable agriculture.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

The court adopted the growing consensus that drastic reductions in CO2 emissions are necessary to prevent a temperature rise of more than 2 °C — starting with a reduction between 25 % and 40 % by 2020.

In the consensus statement endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published in the December Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and Nutrition in Clinical Practice, the two organizations say: «The universal use of a single set of diagnostic parameters will expedite the recognition of pediatric undernutrition, lead to the development of more accurate estimates of its prevalence and incidence, direct interventions and promote improved outcomes.»