The phrase
"national consensus" means when a country's people or leaders agree on a particular decision or course of action. It shows that the majority of the nation is unified and supports a common idea or goal.
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The school's continuing students in a drama show called for
national consensus on the successful implementation of the free SHS policy.
For those of you who are familiar with the work of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), I think that the NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, articulated in 2000, would have been a better starting place
for national consensus than CCSSM.
The lack
of national consensus on NASA's most publicly visible human spaceflight goal along with budget uncertainty has undermined the agency's ability to guide program planning and allocate funding.»
«Overall, I think there is a strong
national consensus in the lead public health community that distributing swabs as an outreach or community giveaway is a very dangerous idea unless done in close partnership with appropriately - educated health, housing or community staff to provide interpretation of the results,» Katrina Korfmacher, associate professor for the Department of Environmental Medicine at University of Rochester Medical Center, wrote in a March 4 email.
Domestically, ANSI provides a forum where the private and public sectors can cooperatively work together toward the development of voluntary
national consensus standards.
It reflects an
emerging national consensus on the importance of studying teachers» work before giving job security or raises, said Timothy Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit group that published a report last year calling attention to weaknesses in teacher evaluation systems.
4 Days in France not only
maps national consensus, but as it explores different characters (from a lonely, risky 20 - year - old to a middle - aged veteran libertine), it also charts an alternative history of French philosophy.
This group served as the national coordinator of the standards - development process as well as an impartial organization to
approve national consensus standards and halt user confusion on acceptability.
National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them;
endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.
«Price Plus» is the way we can create the
necessary national consensus that climate change mitigation is one of the major priorities for the U.S..
The Chilean left withstood the temptation to spend its copper bounty and worked hard to
build national consensus for fiscal responsibility.
The act is a product
of national consensus and has both executive and legislative approvals,» MP for Ajumako - Enyan - Essiam and a former Deputy Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson stated while addressing a press conference in parliament.
4 Days in France not only
maps national consensus, but as it explores different characters (from a lonely, risky 20 - year - old to a middle - aged veteran libertine), it also charts an alternative history of French philosophy through a pageant of female characters.
Don't forget that you may have to get a demo permit in many areas, «This section highlights OSHA standards, standard interpretations (official letters of interpretation of the standards), and
national consensus standards related to demolition.
But without
a national consensus that both conventional pollution and greenhouse gas pollution have to be reduced, their engineering will founder in the boardroom.
Jacobs: We've started to see the conversation around criminal justice change from what it had been forever, but do you think that change needs to happen on the local and state level first before we get to
a national consensus?
Do we have
a national consensus to reduce this economic sector?
Amid mounting criticism leveled by retailers, analysts and leading developers of battery storage, few signs of
a national consensus on the proposed NEG are emerging.
The national consensus on the need to reduce federal and provincial deficits and to establish a more competitive fiscal framework;
This is a national issue which requires
a national consensus,» Mr. Tanrikulu mentioned.
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.
As Calabresi noted, the court's decision failed to produce
a national consensus.
We will have a better immigration policy when we have
a national consensus — expressed through elections — about what that better immigration policy should look like.
He differed from Governor Cuomo, however, in suggesting that there existed
a national consensus against abortion except in the cases of incest and rape — and where the mother's life was seriously at stake — which had been overlooked by the Supreme Court.
That did not happen, and as a result precious little mind was given by the controlling white population to Negro rights and needs until, finally, after another war sufficient black leadership and
national consensus emerged to listen to grievances and construct a better way.
In April 2010, Ortega wrote in Palabra Nueva (New Word), the magazine of the Havana Archdiocese, that Cubans had reached
a national consensus, and that postponing reforms was sure to produce «impatience and uneasiness» among people already suffering hardships.
«In most states, on the other hand, it will be possible to enact legislation that brings a state's law into closer conformity with what survey research consistently shows to be
the national consensus: That abortion should not be a form of contraception, and that it should be available only for serious reasons that must increase in gravity as pregnancy advances.
That's far more fruitful than trying to ban it entirely because, apart from the obvious constitutional issue, there is
no national consensus about the moral status of the early embryo.
The right to dissent is fundamental to our democracy, and alternative voices are necessary when the push for
a national consensus is so strong.
«The Family Online Safety Institute is proud to be partnering with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the Kingdom of Bahrain in its efforts to find
a national consensus for online safety,» said David Miles, FOSI Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
No national consensus exists.
As he has in the past, he said several times that there is
a national consensus around the Common Core standards — that 45 states have adopted them.
As such, efforts to build
a national consensus and long - term plan must also take the mode of a journey.
«In 1999 when the then President Obasanjo was elected on
a national consensus on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), there were a lot of expectations from Nigerians, haven come out of a dictatorship from the hands of the military.
She said: «I want to establish
a national consensus that building more homes - including more social and affordable housing - is the right thing to do.
«If the government is genuinely concerned to build
a national consensus on counter-terrorism policy, it should drop this ill - conceived proposal and work with us and others to identify better ways of ensuring terrorism suspects are successfully prosecuted,» Mr Dismore added.
«I hope this time we can achieve
a national consensus that puts national security above party politics,» he said.
They helped get Governor Pataki elected through a disciplined anti-tax campaign, which coincided with
a national consensus that raising them was political suicide.
«Today, there is no doubt that there is
a national consensus that Nigeria is overdue for restructuring.»