Sentences with phrase «near unanimity on»

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However, there is near - unanimity on the ends to be achieved in this area of public policy, and intense, often bitter, debate on how to get there.

Though a governor, unlike a president or member of Congress, has virtually no influence on foreign affairs, the state's political class with near unanimity supports Israel in its armed conflicts.

• There was near unanimity among the task force members (myself excluded), the State Board of Education, and the California Department of Education that NCLB - era accountability systems were excessively punitive, and that the focus should instead be on «continuous improvement,» rather than «test - and - punish.»

It seems that the definition of «consensus» varies by field, just as the decision - making framework does, with unanimity or near unanimity expected from the scientific community, even including those scientists who in many cases have not really embedded themselves in the literature nor been required to put together a coherent assembly and analysis of scientific knowledge (and even including, somehow, CEI's [Competitive Enterprise Institute] lawyers with their ExxonMobil support, who are often quoted as the contrary view in papers on the science of climate change).

In an April 1, 2012 column in The New York Times, Prof. Richard H. Thaler of the U-Chicago Booth School of Business aptly summed up the near - unanimity among economists that carbon taxing is the optimal way to reduce CO2 emissions: «Consider a recent poll of a panel of economists conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I teach... [Forty - one] economists in [a poll conducted by the] University of Chicago... were asked whether they agreed with this statement: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles.»

The irony to me is we in this post appear to have near - unanimity on the inability to conclude anything (project with meaningful confidence) about the future from the GISS data alone.

The amendments relating to trading stock on a blockchain were added at the last minute to a host of amendments related to recognizing blockchain transactions, all of which were passed with near unanimity.