Sentences with phrase «of achieving a consensus»

Balsillie and Lazaridis would push through ideas they felt strongly about, but the goal of achieving consensus nevertheless created confusion.

Energy minister Josh Frydenberg was confident of achieving a consensus to send the National Energy Guarantee to its next stage as energy min...

Energy minister Josh Frydenberg was confident of achieving a consensus to send the National Energy Guarantee to its next stage as energy min...

Last week Commons leader Harriet Harman said there would be a full day's debate on the 21 proposals, which she said would cover four «big ticket areas that we want to make change on» and which she believed MPs had a «good prospect of achieving a consensus».

Katharine Mach, who served as co-director of science on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will present her most recent findings on the trials and triumphs of achieving a consensus on climate science.

It stated: «We recognise the IPCC as the world's most reliable source of information on climate change and its causes, and we endorse its methods of achieving consensus.»

Beauchamp: That is often the price of achieving consensus.

Not exact matches

«What is striking at the moment is the lack of a broader consensus between policy makers about what monetary policy can achieve and what it should do in the current situation,» said Jan Bopp, asset allocation strategist at Bank J Safra Sarasin.

The three main areas where my direct advice went unheeded were the following: (1) the need for large - scale financial assistance [29] for Russia, which I deemed (and still deem) to have been essential to molding a political consensus around reforms, and to bolstering the financial situation enough to achieve a modicum of success in the fight against hyperinflation; (2) the need for strong monetary and fiscal policy to achieve a rapid end to inflation [30]; and (3) the urgency of establishing a social safety net [31], especially in health care and pensions, to ensure an adequate social and political base for societal transformation and democratization.

Austin: Sure, so I think when it started, cryptocurrency was more of a protocol for how you try to achieve consensus in a distributed fashion.

Using both will greatly improve the processing performance of the blockchain because it will achieve consensus of the main blockchain's decentralization.

There's another category of scalability - first projects that is even earlier and less proven than the projects listed above that seek to achieve consensus via mechanisms that lie outside the construct of a blockchain (gossip protocols, directed acyclic graphs, etc).

There may be sufficient consensus on the urgency of developing a sustainable society to achieve agreement on some elements of institutional reform for which only a few were ready in the seventies.

The former refers to an interior disposition emerging within the people of God — an inward awareness of the nature of the faith — while the latter refers to the consensus achieved as a result of this collective act of discernment.

It is no more likely in politics than it is in the institutional life of the Church that we shall achieve a Christian consensus.

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.

Instead of working to achieve consensus on contested theological and moral issues, legislatively driven agendas are designed to end debates by reducing the issue to two sides and then enacting one side into church policy and ecclesiastical law.

As I showed in my review, no appeal to consensus can achieve the aim that Collins and Walls have in mind, because there was broad consensus for at least a thousand years about the existence of an apostolic succession in the episcopate — a doctrine that the authors consider themselves free to reject.

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.

In this view, social change is gradual and evolutionary, and achieved on the basis of consensus.

Another difficulty in achieving a consensus on religion in public life is the fact that Will Herberg's tripartite description of American religious life as Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish no longer fits American religious reality.

CODEX is currently reviewing the definitions of food fraud in considerable detail and this work is expected to inform current efforts to achieve better consensus on the terminology around this issue.

There is a broad consensus that agroecology can be instrumental in achieving a wide range of policy, environmental and food security targets, from sustainability related goals to the reduction of rural poverty.The 2nd International... more

To achieve this advanced certification, a consensus of stakeholders had to affirm the positive contributions that the Cabazon factory has made on water balance and the quality of the catchment.

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.

There is little doubt that major party and procedural developments — for example, the rise of partisan polarization in the House and Senate will significantly determine whether the two parties, the two chambers, and Congress and the White House can achieve consensus on common objectives.

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.

These principles are the result of a background document that examined the feasibility to design adequate diets using locally available foods, and are based on consensus achieved during an informal meeting of experts held in Geneva in early 2004.

Or perhaps the frenzied speed of reform will ultimately prove a stumbling block, preventing consensus and raising passions to the point where little is achieved.

Achieving international consensus over the suitability of refugees returning to Rwanda was thus a potential way to refute accusations concerning human rights abuses within the country, and to exercise more control over possible critics.

«And as a Caucus of fifty - six Members from all across the State of New York, we must allow for information - sharing so that we can work to achieve a consensus among our membership that runs the spectrum.»

The efforts of the government on this issue will be directed in the coming months at achieving that greater degree of consensus so that a programme motion can be passed in the autumn sitting.

That is why the Whitehouse Consultancy has written to the leaders of all three main political parties urging them to work to achieve a political consensus on statutory regulation as soon as parliamentary time allows.

I thank our partners in government, including Governor Cuomo, Speaker Heastie and Independent Democrat Conference Leader Klein, for working together with the members of our conference to achieve consensus.

Coalition policy was to seek a consensus on House of Lords reform and I think it's pretty clear to anyone watching this debate that they failed to achieve a consensus.»

The wider campaign for a new relationship with the EU takes the form of the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for European Reform, which is open to all MPs, and which was set up in order to ensure that pro-reform voices from across the parties could be heard, and therefore a consensus on changing our position in Europe stands a better chance of being achieved.

Hopes of achieving cross-party consensus on party funding reform appeared less likely last night after heated scenes in the House of Commons.

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.

There's consensus at the Capitol on the need to provide property tax relief in the 2015 - 16 budget, but a difference of opinion on how to best achieve that goal.

The formation of the coalition has given the government a political majority in the Lords, reducing the need for cross-party consensus achieved through backroom talks.

But she also revealed that the liaison committee itself is split on one of the key proposals, the election of select committee chairman, suggesting consensus might be difficult to achieve.

Recently, participative forms of decision - making have been introduced with a view to making citizens «stakeholders» rather than passive users of services and, in turn, achieving consensus around innovative solutions to a range of development challenges.

The 2019 scenario is a crucial indicator of the prospects of achieving yet another «miraculously» amicable but longer lasting negotiated consensus and cooperation towards defusing the escalation of animosity and conflicts of interests in transiting to a post-Buhari northern presidency.

This evening, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gave a big boost to the plan, endorsing CB3's guidelines: «I want to commend the leadership and members of the Community Board 3 Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Committee for their effort to achieve, at long last, a true consensus about the future of Seward Park.

Eleven long years after the AU adopted the Ezelwini consensus, we are nowhere near achieving a more equitable reform of the UN Security Council.

«I want to commend the leadership and members of the Community Board 3 Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Committee for their effort to achieve, at long last, a true consensus about the future of Seward Park.

My long list of successful projects in both of these areas can be attributed to reaching across organizations in order to build consensus and achieve common goals.

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.

Highly motivated people openly cast doubt on well - established evidence — the theory of evolution, the human effects on climate change, the value of vaccines and other findings that have achieved an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community.