Sentences with phrase «points of agreement rather»

It's one thing to cave to a wave of naysaying climate rhetoric and build a new American energy conversation on points of agreement rather than clear ideological flash points like global warming.

Not exact matches

The agreement finally reached on the local government pension scheme after the government made significant concessions has rather less to do with official generosity than fear about the consequences if the scheme were so eviscerated that hundreds of thousands of local government workers might decide there was no point in continuing to contribute to it since, if they walked away, they would still get the same amount of money in retirement from means - tested income support.

Rather, the 10 - Q simply sets out the estimated maximum gross exposure without its connection to the Agreement, and only separately points out that the Agreement requires each party to reimburse the other in the event of a tax benefit arising from a tax dispute.

This is due in part to the fact that published normals vary by as much as 100 points on hepatic enzymes, indicating that little agreement exists as to what is indeed «normal» for a rabbit.1 This inexactitude is precisely what the HRS Rabbit Health Database is trying to rectify by accumulating the results of bloodwork on house rabbits (rather than lab rabbits, which have relatively short, abnormal lives) from across the country.

Rather than focusing on divisions — or on India's longstanding insistence that countries» actions be weighed on a per - capita basis — he focused on points of agreement.

«Overall, the findings suggest that if there was closer attention to the social consequences of policies, rather than continuing with seemingly intractable debates on the reality of AGW, then we might get to a point where there could be agreement on some action.»

Lewandowsky has a habit of raising fundamental truths1 and asking pertinent questions, yet then for the climate change domain turning psychology (and according to analyses his data and ethics too) on its head in order to ensure an agreement with his über - orthodox viewpoint on risk2, rather than embrace outcomes that the fundamentals and questions actually point to.

There is also the challenge of political will: President Trump has announced that rather than work with the rest of the world to reduce the risks of climate change, the US will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement, and other researchers have repeatedly pointed out that the Paris accord is itself not enough, and is not being acted upon with sufficient vigour, anywhere.

«What is particularly concerning is the uncontested fact that Alberta and AUPE had come to meaningful agreements on certain issues during collective bargaining, but rather than respecting those points of common ground Alberta has by legislation «wiped the slate clean» when it unilaterally imposed all terms from the 2011 Collective Agreement,» the judge said.

Rather, Justice Kane noted, the cases of Wright v. Young and Rubicam Group of Companies (Wunderman), 2011 ONSC 4720 and Stevens v. Sifton Properties, 2012 ONSC 5508, both of which have previously been considered by this blog on exactly this point, see: Poorly Drafted Employment Agreement Proves Costly and No Termination Agreement Without Benefits, were directly on point.

At some point the bargaining power of the lawyer or firm is going to be sufficiently small that it better to lose their custom rather than tweak the agreement.

The goal of this skill is not to come to agreement or hash out your disagreement, but rather to emphatically reflect your partner's point of view.

There is widespread agreement, among both liberals and conservatives, that the best point of intervention with these young couples would have been prior to their child's conception, rather than after the child's birth.