Sentences with phrase «not achieve consensus»

The Practice Direction (supra) in para 7, provides that if parties can not achieve consensus they must inform all parties in writing with reasons within 10 business days or not less than five of an Interim Report Hearing.

Although a similar crime of aggression was agreed upon at the Rome Conference, a definition of the crime and how it should be investigated did not achieve consensus and was only included in the statute on the last day of the 1998 conference.

As for his greatest weakness as governor, 30 percent said he doesn't achieve consensus on important issues, 22 percent said he jumps from issue to issue without a plan, 19 percent said he doesn't work well with others and 10 percent said he puts off making tough decisions.

Meanwhile, 30 percent of voters believe the governor doesn't achieve consensus on key issues, while 22 percent believe he jumps from issue to issue without a plan.

The Court went on to caution that «when considering the theory of expert testimony... it is vitally important to avoid the confusion engendered by reference to syndromes... At the present time experts have not achieved consensus on the existence of a psychological syndrome... use of the word syndrome leads only to confusion, and to unwarranted and unworkable comparisons to battered child syndrome.»

Not exact matches

The current consensus is that Canada's real estate market has achieved a «soft» landing and that prices will flat line but not decline substantially over the next several years.

In the historical sciences, we can not, as in the natural sciences, achieve the clarity of observation that will enable all observers to describe the same phenomenon in the same way, but we can enter into debate with one another with regard to our findings and so strive for a consensus that will take us all further forward.

Also a few of the 50 States, that are not yet the majority needed to achieve the consensus for a C O N S T I T U T I O N A L amendment.

But the consensus, when it is predicted, does not arrive; or if it is achieved, it does not last.

It should be amended only when a favorable consensus can be achieved, and if that consensus is not forthcoming, then the constitution remains as it is.

Don't get me wrong, there is something cathartic about the venting process but the benefits are short - lived and ultimately solves little unless some sort of consensus can be achieved.

From what we have seen from the Arsenal team so far it is going to take a significant turnaround in form to achieve two wins from the next two Premier League encounters, but we know that the Gunners can blow hot and cold and so I would not be at all surprised if Arsene Wenger and the players confound the general consensus of the football pundits and do it.

She uses reason, power, and shaping by regime and reinforcement to achieve her objectives, and does not base her decisions on group consensus or the individual child's desires.

Frederique Ries (ALDE Belgium), Rapporteur of the Report, said while she had some sympathy for the new amendments, she did not want to upset the consensus that was achieved when her report was adopted in the Environment Committee in 29th April.

Brown can not achieve a progessive consensus if he is only prepared to say things with which nobody could disagree.

The roundtable did not attempt to address what should be taught, but it was clear from the questions and discussion that much debate would be required to achieve consensus on the tools and skills required of the new workforce.

«The difficult part is not to have consensus on having common standards,» he observed, «but on how to work on the political process to achieve them.»

Achieving those results, however, will require the support of higher education not only throughout the development of theexams but also into their full implementation.As a first step toward encouraging higher education systems to endorse and base judgments aboutstudents» college readiness on the new assessments, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundationand Lumina Foundation requested the National Center for Higher Education ManagementSystems (NCHEMS) to identify the conditions that help build consensus between K - 12 andpostsecondary systems at a state level.

When educators can achieve consensus not only about learning priorities but also about how such priorities are measured and what criteria define successful work, students can stop fixating on the personality at the front of the room and start focusing on the task at hand.

District - level reform can not achieve its potential without a consensus around the reform strategy from the district leadership, the school board, the teachers» union, and a large majority of principals and teachers in a system, as well as activist parents.

Just because we don't understand the system fully and have to ignore portions of it to achieve consensus science doesn't automatically mean those portions aren't important and significant.

To achieve consensus, the text of the SPM was made vaguer in many places, and its content diluted to the extent that in some places not much substance remained.»

Climate knowledge is growing rapidly now and while there still remain some interesting challenges to the status quo on certain points (for example, exactly how it is that CO ₂ and CH ₄ started rising some 5000 years ago, if not by human impacts, or how it is that humans overwhelmed expected gradual declines and added enough to achieve those rises that far back) that need further research... the very conservative consensus, which must be conservative by its nature since it takes time for consensus to develop as further research helps to close gaps and remove or improve assumptions, is always playing catch - up it seems.

It remains to be seen how long it will take greenhouse warming to achieve a clear public consensus; one hopes it will not take another century.»

Indeed, there is a good argument, whether or not «climate change is happening», that a consensus was sought on climate change precisely because of its political utility, other consensuses in society being so hard to achieve in the current political environment.

It's not like we have achieved any kind of cultural consensus on right and wrong, even in our own societies.

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Though scientific consensus must always be open to responsible skepticism given: (a) the strength of the consensus on this topic, (b) the enormity of the harms predicted by the consensus view, (c) an approximately 30 year delay in taking action that has transpired since a serious climate change debate began in the United States in the early 1980s, (d) a delay that has made the problem worse while making it more difficult to achieve ghg emissions reductions necessary to prevent dangerous climate change because of the steepness of reductions now needed, no politician can ethically justify his or her refusal to support action on climate change based upon a personal opinion that is not supported by strong scientific evidence that has been reviewed by scientific organizations with a wide breadth of interdisciplinary scientific expertise.

So the problem is not that science achieves consensus at times, the problem is when there is a drive to promote a false consensus.

I won't digress into «weak» consenus or anything like that, because I think more importantly is the fact that in order to achieve consensus you have to first draw the circle of «rational debate.»

Sacrificing ambition in order to achieve consensus should not be tolerated when the stakes are so high.

Those three foundation principles are: (1) operate independently from government; (2) serve the public interest (not government interest); and, (3) standards development procedures shall be based upon consensus — the achieving of consensus among all interested parties («consensus» as defined by the CAN - P - 1:2012 text, pp. 21 - 22).

Unfortunately, there is widespread consensus that imprisonment has not been successful in achieving some of these goals.

Since philosophical cohesion is a prerequisite to effectuating a structure by which partners will agree to be bound, great care must be taken to: (1) determine what the partners want lawyer management to be / not to be, i.e., strong leadership, consensus builders, visionaries, functional managers, etc.; and (2) engage in extensive discussion about the partners» respective expectations for individual involvement in decision - making in defined areas, paying particular attention to those areas likely to challenge the natural independence of lawyers who have already successfully achieved partnership.

Although, it might seem quite easy to resolve at first, major and costly litigation can follow if a mutually agreeable consensus can not be achieved.

Constitutional Law: Senate Reform Senate Reference (Order in Council P.C. 2013 - 70, Feb. 1, 2013)(35203) Apr. 25, 2014 Parliament can not unilaterally achieve most of the proposed changes to the Senate, requiring the consent of at least seven provinces representing, in the aggregate, at least half of the population of all the provinces; abolition requires consent of all of the provinces and can only be done with unanimous federal - provincial consensus.

The broad sense of relief that SegWit2x had failed to achieve consensus meanwhile appears not to have affected everyone.

So the rules can be changed, as long as you achieve majority consensus (another myth is that the limit of 21 million bitcoins can not be changed.

While Bitcoin blockchain's «proof - of - work» validation approach is fascinating, one of the basic premises for InterChainZ was to focus on exploring «non-blockchain consensus or identity» MDLs, i.e. what benefits could be achieved when not using currencies or tokens.

Right now, for Bitcoin and Ethereum, we do not have a clear governance model, so it's hard to make decisions and achieve consensus when some emergency things happen.

Rechner clarifies that this proposal is not likely to be merged into Bitcoin Core in the immediate future, but if community consensus for the proposal is successfully achieved, this BIP might be included in the future network updates.

Then we were told that we were not able to achieve consensus.

The models used in NSW differ from those established in other states in that, the participants actually sit in a circle, it is not usually held in a formal court setting, the circle attempts to achieve consensus on the sentence and the circle reconvenes, a few months later, to review the progress of the offender or status of the sentence.

Plus, a consensus will never be achieved in this format for many reasons; one being that we all get caught up arguing with people like «Hardworking Realtor», or those using names that aren't even names.