Sentences with phrase «not at a consensus»

Lawmakers have discussed these issues but «at the moment, we're not at a consensus on anything,» said Steve Brown, spokesman for House Speaker Michael Madigan, D - Chicago.

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But it's not at all clear how they do, and regulators have failed to come to a consensus on that issue.

It may not always have been the way things were, but at least there was a consensus about how things were supposed to be.

Partners can't come to consensus at critical strategic turning points.

At Business Insider's panel at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, there was a consensus that the majority of investors don't care about much else beyond quarterly earningAt Business Insider's panel at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, there was a consensus that the majority of investors don't care about much else beyond quarterly earningat the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, there was a consensus that the majority of investors don't care about much else beyond quarterly earnings.

But when you ask what to do about it, that consensus quickly devolves into finger - pointing — at recycling companies like Waste Management for failing to innovate, at the American public for their lazy recycling habits, at producers for creating plastic packaging that is increasingly difficult to recycle, and even at the federal government for not passing strong legislation that encourages better practices.

Industry consensus at the time was that you couldn't sell food for infants and for 10 - year - olds under the same brand name: «No significant baby brand had ever successfully extended beyond the toddler market,» says Jon Owsley, a partner at Catterton.

Even without these factors, experience teaches that recessions are almost never forecast or even rapidly recognised by the Fed or the professional consensus forecast, but there is at least a 20 per cent or so chance that if the economy is not in recession, it will be so within a year.

While it decided not to, the Fed did say it expected «further gradual» rate increases would be justified — and there's broad consensus that it will raise rates (which can affect the amount banks charge borrowers, as well as interest paid on bonds) at least three times this year.

«First quarter results are disappointing across all divisions except investment banking and we do not expect consensus to upgrade but potentially see risks of downgrades,» Kian Abouhossein, an analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co. said in a note to clients.

For much of my career I pretty much accepted the consensus, but as I started to think more seriously about the components of the balance of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the transfer of international status from Britain to the US.

Of course, a new consensus that Canada's productivity is actually better than previously estimated shouldn't discourage the adoption of measures in government and industry targeted at improving productivity growth.

But the general consensus is that the downward trend won't last much longer — at least not through the end of 2015.

«Money being reinvested into a business is, by definition, not immediately accreting to shareholders, which we think may be a problem given high consensus earnings growth expectations,» says Castagno, adding that the companies most at risk, based on elevated expectations and likelihood of reinvestment, are those in Consumer Staples, Financials, Health Care, and Industrials.

«Although the consensus acknowledges the arrival of the millennial generation (those born 1981 - 2000) into the workforce, few appreciate the sheer size of this wave, which is estimated at 83 million and doesn't really tail off even as we enter «Generation Z,»» says Shalett.

Almost everyone with at least a high - school education believes that the world is round, but that consensus does not mean that the world must be flat.

Payrolls expanded by 228,000, ahead of consensus expectations, to leave 2017's average monthly jobs gain at 174,000, not far off the 187,000 pace seen in 2016.

Belshe concedes «it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade at this time.

Called proof - of - stake, or «consensus by vote,» the idea has been implemented, however, not at the scale intended by ethereum.

Error, the Big Bang is not validated it is simply the consensus at the moment in the scientific community.

One of the fundamental mistakes that Mr. Colson makes is his assumption that one can not confront our culture's crumbling moral consensus while at the same time advocating criminal justice reform of the kind I favor.

What you refer to as facts are only fact by consensus at the moment as things often are not as they appear.

We do not wish to play bit parts of it, as do, unfortunately, many invitees who are there to bring a bit of spirit to a demonstration which aims at something else, to provide a consensus of the elite on globalisation whether they be financiers, politicians or industrialists, and on the best way to change things so as not to change anything.

Referring to the 1999 Joint Declaration of the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation, Phillip Cary («Luther at 500,» November) optimistically notes its «theological consensus that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone need not be Church - dividing.»

Because disagreements about the nature of the Christian faith are not at stake in the abortion controversy, this task could be undertaken ecumenically, aiming at transdenominational consensus.

At the moment, I do not see any kind of consensus emerging; I am not even sure that these efforts have the stature of a separate mode of inquiry.

An attempt at consensus - building regarding social ethics is one of contemporary evangelicalism's most critical tasks, but it will not prove an easy one to accomplish.

Hence, I can not proceed to list other areas of agreement, although I believe the congeniality between what I have been writing as a constructive postmodernist and the general consensus at Porto Alegre goes much further.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

«I think it shows that Christianity can easily become just a set of social protocols for being nice to each other that we agree by consensus and not at its heart submission to God and putting him first.»

Let us now turn back the pages of time and visit another kind of challenge to the theistic consensus that has accompanied what we have just been observing, as a concomitant undercurrent — namely, that the God of unqualified and opposable omnipotence is, in fact, not the living God of scripture at all but is, for all...

Let us now turn back the pages of time and visit another kind of challenge to the theistic consensus that has accompanied what we have just been observing, as a concomitant undercurrent — namely, that the God of unqualified and opposable omnipotence is, in fact, not the living God of scripture at all but is, for all intents and purposes, no less than dead.

Denise, I think the consensus is here — if consensus is allowed in terms of being on their own journeys, even NP is leery of all beliefs — anyways, the consensus arrived at by Contextual epistemology, not Foundational, as it can not be seen as a given, is that Jesus did not even exist, so hence he can not even be a failed apocalyptic prophet.

The current division of theological studies into Bible, history, theology, ethics and practical theology reflects a very old Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology of the Word, of teaching office, of church and ministry, if not discredited, are at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this Theological Encyclopedia.

The bad news for believers, if there is any, is surely the failure of the more sober scholars to reach a consensus on the historical Jesus: if they agree on anything at all, it is that the Gospels can not be taken for historical or biographical accounts of what the Jesus of history said, did and suffered.

I mean look at mormons and scientologists, there's seems to be a consensus from all of our species that our ancestors knew something we did not.

Old Testament theology does not aim at consensus, but rather at an ongoing conversation, situated in a variety of changing contexts, about the character and activity of God.

His norms in the present case, while thoroughly orthodox in relation to the general consensus, were also in some ways not far from the same German mysticism which was at work among the visionaries themselves, typical as they were of a chronic spontaneous eruption of apocalyptic and individualistic reaction to the directive legalisms of the official Church.

Finally, Luther makes all clear, summing up in masterly fashion at the end of the Explanations what was in so many minds throughout Europe there must be a Reformation, and please God it should come from a general consensus: «The Church needs a reformation which is not the work of one man, namely the Pope, nor of many men, namely the Cardinals [such as the recent 5th Lateran Council],... but the work of the whole world, indeed... the work of God alone.

Whatever is distinctive about Judaism has been left out of account either because it does not accord with the liberal consensus or because Jews lack a public philosophy of adequate complexity to mediate the values of their tradition to the culture at large.

The consensus at breakfast yesterday was that they should be called Cinnamon Breakfast Brownies from now on (though the texture is cake - like, not dense like a brownie — I think they just liked the sound of the two B's together).

«And during those games, you'll not only get to hear announcers try every Jake Butt pun imaginable, you'll see Jabrill Peppers play at least a dozen positions, a defensive line that is completely capable of dismantling QBs (including consensus No. 1 2016 recruit Rashan Gary), and Harbaugh turning a QB you've never heard of into the next elite NFL thrower.

Not only did Wenger suggest that the negative attitude of the home crowd was a factor in the failure of yet another title challenge, his view of how the team has performed this season is at odds with the general consensus and actually at odds with the facts.

Auburn coach Pat Dye's list of concerns for spring practice seemed normal enough: 1) Find a quarterback to run his read - and - react wishbone attack; 2) Replace placekicker Al Del Greco; 3) Hope that consensus All - America halfback Bo Jackson (page 134), who had skipped spring football to take a run at making the Olympic track team, didn't catch terminal tetanus from a cinder burn.

But usually, when players wait around for days at the draft, they're not consensus five - star recruits who were good in college.

The general consensus about Rich Rodriguez at Arizona was fairly bullish, but a Pac - 12 South title was not predicted by many before the season.

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.

That's not to say that he won't be drafted at 40, but based on the consensus of the people who put together these draft boards, he's a reach at 40.

A loan spell at West Ham United last season hasn't really resurrected the youngster's carrier, and the general consensus is that he will leave this summer — which would be a shame because, like Wilshere, the lad really plays for the shirt.

The only Gunner that Roy Hodgson did take was Jack Wilshere and the consensus is that he really was not match fit and probably should have stayed at home anyway.