Sentences with phrase «of real consensus»

«In the absence of any real consensus within the community on this important project, I would ask that the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation delay its June 7th vote,» Stringer wrote.

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The real reason we began mining, and still do, is to learn how the network works, how consensus works, how difficulty levels work,» says Stern, referring to aspects of the mining process, which involves a network of computers competing to solve complex math problems.

But they don't help foster team - or consensus - building, which, he argues, is the real purpose of a corporate retreat.

BofA - Merrill's view is for real GDP growth of 1.9 % in 2012 versus consensus expectations for 2.1 %, and for only 1.4 % real GDP growth in 2013 versus the consensus of 2.4 %.

I think this indicates a growing consensus that the neutral real short - term rate will not return anytime soon to its historical norm of 2 percent.

On the prospect of recession, I'm reasonably well - known as one of the only economists who correctly warned in real - time of oncoming recessions in October 2000 and again in November 2007 — both points where the consensus of economic forecasters indicated no expectation of oncoming trouble at all.

A real - time GDP tracker from the Atlanta Fed suggests that the economy only expanded at a 1 percent annualized rate in the third quarter, well below the current consensus estimate of 2.5 percent.

Creating millions of fake accounts and bots impersonating real people with real - sounding names and photos, fooling millions with the false impression of consensus.

This was slightly better than the consensus estimate of around 2 percent, even as real GDP eased from 2.9 percent growth in the fourth quarter data.

Pompeo said that among the allies there was «enormous consensus of the risk that it poses to the West (and) a real commitment to work together to mitigate to those risks and to deter them.»

If the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident — herein lies the real challenge for democracy.»

If the devil is real — and the general consensus of church history is that he is — then the battle being waged against him is an important one and the flashy demon possession tricks are a very minuscule part of it.

Would it not be that the West and the institutions of global governance, having closed themselves to transcendence, have stopped searching for what is real, true and good for humanity as a whole and for each individual person, and therefore prove unable to forge any genuine consensus?

1) Copenhagen demonstrated that global governance has overreached itself; 2) The crisis provokes a shift away from idealistic globalism, back to pragmatic concerns; 3) «Global consensus» established by «experts» is not and has never been genuine; 4) The institutions of global governance prove unable to resolve their identity crisis and to reform themselves; they are fragmented; 5) Global governance pays the bill for not taking into account non-western cultures and civilisations; 6) Displaying an incapacity to provide real leadership, produce a vision for the world, new ideas / ideologies, global governance opts for a survival approach.

The times are favourable to self - determination, a return to reality, de-hijacking the «global normative consensus» built not by real people, but by the enlightened despots of our global age.

The more manifest it becomes that the «global consensus» built after the end of the Cold War was hijacked and is therefore fake, the more de-hijacking becomes a real possibility.

My concern with Douthat's analysis is that it leaves no room for a «merely Catholic» center — for the possibility that younger generations of Catholics might finally get beyond the culture wars to a real Catholic consensus on orthodoxy, one that would still allow for political disagreement on less than fundamental matters.

What he said was of course familiar in non-Catholic circles for a long time; yet the way in which he said it, with the consequences of that pronouncement in his own communion, is an indication of a growing consensus about the right place and real significance of Scripture in the Christian tradition.

But the problem with which we began is that the historical quest for the real Jesus has itself produced variety, not consensus, and hardly provides the norm for measuring the images of Christ entertained by theologians or naïve believers.

But that kind of apologetics takes its cues from the scholarly consensus that serves as Levenson's real target.

The very fact that we have so many sects of Christianity (and just so many religions in general) should bring to light that there is a no real consensus as to a universal interpretation of religious text.

«The Senate Agriculture hearing reaffirmed the broad consensus among scientists and regulators that GMOs are safe and highlighted the real world negative impacts a patchwork of state labeling mandates will have on farmers, businesses and consumers,» said Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association.

Betting consensus data is comprised of «wishlist» bets: games that people have no real intention of betting but on which they simply must offer opinions.

You'll get consensus public sports betting trends on the number and the percentage of bets and the percentage of money placed.Our data comes from real wagers placed at the industry's largest and most trusted sports books.

Though Leicester are currently sat atop the Premier League table, the general consensus is that the Foxes title challenge will run out of steam sooner or later and that City are the only real challengers that could stop the Gunners from lifting the trophy.

The number of scientists and clinicians who have called over the last several years for more accurate reporting by the media on concussions and CTE, criticized the reporting of strongly presented causal assumptions relating to concussive and subconcussive brain impact exposure as «scientifically premature,» and highlighted the negative real world consequences to such one - sided reporting, has grown to consensus proportions, but have largely flown beneath the media's radar.

But the real challenge — and unprecedented opportunity — will be to develop a new consensus established around agreed goals of what constitutes a good society.»

«To create an overall plan that you're going to be able to get consensus on is not impossible, but it's a real slog and what I think is happening now with the Council is we are taking the temperature of members on the most important changes that need to happen to get broad support when this comes up for a vote.»

Will he work with us to develop cross-party consensus on a measure that will have minimal cash - flow impact on the Treasury and deliver real help to a vital sector of society?

«We look forward to a new prime minister and home secretary leading a cross-party non-party consensus that rejects blustering rhetoric for unity in bringing terror suspects to real British justice within the rule of law.»

The condo compromise was rumored to be a potential point of consensus between organized labor and the real estate industry while they were negotiating the terms of 421a before it expired a week ago.

The scientific consensus that the Flynn effect is real has not, however, translated into a legal consensus that corrections should be applied to the IQ scores of people sentenced to death.

Despite the frustrating lack of clarity, researchers are universally optimistic that, with time and the accretion of data, insight into the mechanism of violence will come, and with it, a greater consensus on the real risks of guns.

My husband's opinion and the general consensus on the Art of Manliness forums is that to get a real shave (if you are going to shave, which was a controversial topic over there) a man must use an old fashioned safety razor or straight razor and preferably a brush and mug soap rather than conventional shaving cream.

As far as specific food / macro recommendations go, the only real consensus that I've seen is that one should try to eat as many carbohydrates as possible within the allotted calories, even if it means eating lower protein (Peele recommends as low as.55 g / lb bodyweight of protein to fit as many carbs in as possible).

I have not seen any of his films post 1980, and the critical consensus is that only Love Rites (1987) is of real interest.

But that was the last time there was any real consensus, and one could argue the Return of the King number is a fluke, driven by three years of wonder at Peter Jackson's epic trilogy.

One of the actors is a famous one, played by Michael Cera, and simply referred to in the movie as Player X. Allow me to save you the Google search: The consensus is that Player X's real identity is Tobey Maguire.

A real impact of civic and intercultural education implies «moving away from a focus on individual (identity) difference / s towards a focus on finding, through principled intercultural discourse, consensus for social action to redress injustice and inequality in the multicultural society» (Ohana & Otten, 2012).

This Houston Chronicle series, telling the story how an obscure state memo limiting special education services had innumerable effects, has already led to real - world changes and seems to be the consensus pick for education coverage of the year.

As microtransactions and loot boxes became more of a necessity to improve teams and climb through the ranks of the Resistance or the Empire, the consensus was that some players were gaining an unfair advantage through the use of real money.

Promising a mature and conscientious Spider - Man that's a «real superhero,» and a flourishing universe filled with popular figures from the source material, the consensus is that Spider - Man for PS4 is rapidly shaping up to be a game worthy of the character where the last movie tie - in game from Activision (The Amazing Spider - Man 2) clearly was not.

Ultimately there's no real consensus on the issue at the moment, but as the line between «Early Access» and «Release» gets blurrier than the vision of a drunken uni student whose glasses are inexplicably covered in Vaseline, it's something we're likely to see a lot more debate on in the future...

They are made up of real things that the artist had reasons for choosing, yet the critical and curatorial consensus has always been to treat them effectively as more purely visual than they perhaps are.

In real world conditions, the consensus (including from Nissan's promotional materials), is that it should get 150 miles (240 km) of cruising range.

There are a variety of reasons why it's so darn easy for many members of the public to get jerked around by the reason - of - the - day: «global warming is not real», «it's inevitable anyhow», «there's nothing we can do about it», «it's the sun», «we'll just have to acclimate», «we should acclimate», «there's no consensus», «it's all the fault of Love Potion Number 9», or whatever.

I accept there is something approaching a scientific consensus that global warming is real and should be addressed urgently, but contributions wishing to radically change the figures do need to consider credibility issues of this kind.

And that may be the real reason why consensus messaging doesn't work: - everyone's bored of «global warming» and nobody cares any more.

Climatology could a priori be a bunch of hacks, or an immature science, or both, having no real substantive mathematical consensus.

At first I accepted the «consensus» and did have deep concerns about the effects of anthropogenic contributions to our atmosphere, but as more and more true scientists began to speak up, as more and more real facts became available and as the transgressions of the IPCC and its government consensus makers became exposed, I became more conscious of the complexity of the issues.