Sentences with phrase «public consensus as»

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Throughout his public life, he's demonstrated an ability to collaborate and build consensus when needed, from the creation of a unified Conservative party to the long list of trade agreements signed during his time as prime minister.

«All our technical work is conducted openly, meaning on our public mailing lists, in our public issue tracker, on our public chat server, etc. «Control» over that development process is not based on a vendor or even a particular developer — it's based on a consensus process the individual developers use as maintainers on a project.

The public will have to make the decisions, as it often does, quite apart from any clear consensus among the people who know the technological aspects of the issue best.

Within five years of President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, however, the postwar internationalist consensus disintegrated, and isolationism reemerged as a powerful force in American public life: not an isolationism fearful of America becoming contaminated by the world but the isolationism of the New Left, convinced that America itself was poison in and for the world.

The growing use of the internet, especially in social networking, meant that through the debates of the US Bishops» Conference (commendably held in public session) the general Catholic public became increasingly aware of just what thinking was behind what was coming to be known by consensus as the «lame - duck translation», an expression popularised by Fr Zuhlsdorf who has spent many years analysing «What does the prayer really say?»

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.

Power in the national state rests on public opinion — or on «consensus» as one head of state prefers to call it.

Hartshorne refers to attempts to legally abolish abortion, an issue which lacks clear public consensus, as «tyranny» (CS21 45).

The mandate to discover and cultivate «consensus values» has extended to law and public policy as well.

The public consensus veers between sympathy for animal rights — although it is only some animals that are included, you do no hear much about the «rights» of insects and spiders, for example — and uncertainty about the moral boundaries surrounding human life and death — although, of course, outright murder is still regarded as a crime.

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.

NFL bettors who take advantage of sportsbook shading should be able to find even more value employing this strategy at public books as they typically shade even further off the market consensus.

Because the public is heavily taking Houston, Sports Interaction (SIA), which is known as a book that caters to public bettors (as opposed to sharp or professional bettors) has shaded the Texans to -3.5, instead of the -3 that is currently the market consensus.

While there is pediatric expert consensus and recognition that early obesity prevention is a public health concern, AAP experts wanted to know what parents, as day - to - day experts of their children, thought about early obesity prevention.

As these nutrition standards come before Congress to be reauthorized in September, the message from the public is loud and clear: 86 percent of Americans support the standards in their current form, a rare consensus in a nation often divided.

«Therefore, we wish to inform concerned Nigerians and the international community that there is a national and public consensus for this protest to hold as scheduled in all venues.

Such a shift, seen in countries such as Zambia and Congo Brazzaville, was designed to alleviate any ongoing concerns of refugee - hosting countries about implementing the Clause in order to ensure a public, political consensus for its eventual invocation, and end the politically damaging speculation surrounding conditions within Rwanda and the Government's true motivations in pushing for the Cessation Clause.

In Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent, Matthew Carr (2012: 120) describes the immigration - media nexus in the UK as a «mutually reinforcing consensus between governments, the media and the public that invariably depicts immigration as an endless crisis [and undocumented migrants as] dangerous and dehumanised invaders massing outside the nation's borders» (read Inez von Weitershausen's review of the book here).

The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].

«There was a strong consensus from the Meeting that it would be better to take some of the heat out of this public debate; this would entail taking forward a calmer internal party review of funding which would be more comprehensive and balanced (including importantly, addressing the Conservative multi-million pound donations at and between elections) and putting that forward as part of Labour's manifesto offer for party funding reforms.»

There would be no consensus, which ought to be on a major change in the nation's constitution, and the public sees the issue as low among its priorities.

Today Mr Reid told the cabinet he was «mindful of the need for balancing measures to reassure the public when introducing moves that could be perceived as an increase in arbitrary power», and of the need to secure cross-party consensus on any changes.

Wisconsin's fall legislative session will get off to a slow start, with Republicans in control of both the Senate and Assembly still searching for consensus on major issues such as toughening drunken driving laws and imposing new reporting requirements on public and choice schools.

In retrospect historians may look at the period before the economic crisis hit as one of consensus politics: where the Conservative opposition stuck to Labour's public spending plans.

They will need, as one sympathetic Labour backbencher put it last week, «to escape the cul - de-sacs of what might be called Old New Labour thinking» if the government is to find the right public language which can build a consensus for progressive reform.

When the need arises we meet as frequent as we should be meeting and at such meetings issues of concerns are brought to the fore for discussions, consensus is built around a lot of issues before they are rolled out to the public,» said Dzakpasu.

But a pair of astronomers are now putting the question of what defines a galaxy to a public vote, in the hope of reaching a consensus and avoiding the sort of controversy that surrounded Pluto being stripped of its status as a planet.

As the use of a footprint to gauge water use gains popularity, however, researchers are struggling to reach a consensus on how best to measure that footprint so the public understands its full impact.

As with perceptions of scientific consensus on other topics, public perceptions that scientists tend to agree about climate change tend to vary by education and age.

Unless and until the medical community can come to consensus, as you said, with regard to diet, the public will remain either confused, frustrated, apathetic, or any combination of those three.

Schwarzenegger had built consensus in a fractured legislature on such difficult issues as workers» compensation, prison reform, and the largest package of public - works bonds in the nation's history.

Many of these efforts (as well as a 1994 PDK / Gallup Poll and an October»94 Public Agenda survey) indicate that it is indeed possible to reach a consensus on such matters.

To address this inequity and level the playing field, Families Empowered acted as consensus builder, fundraiser, and project manager for ApplyHouston, a citywide application that allows families to apply simultaneously to more than 50 campuses within 5 public charter school networks.

Is there a push for approaches upon which there is far less consensus, such as vouchers and the injection of religion into public schools?

States and localities were permitted to decide for themselves whether vocational education should be provided in separate schools or within existing public schools, but they tended to the latter as a growing consensus emerged on the ideal of a comprehensive high school offering differentiated instruction to all students under the same roof.

«There is a consensus among the public and within our profession that declawing cats is an inhumane treatment and ethically unacceptable, similar to other outdated practices such as tail docking and ear cropping,» said CVBC CEO Luisa Hlus.

Thanks to a number of public works projects and the consensus desire among its citizens to be known for something other than drugs, Medellin has been re-branded as «the city of the eternal spring,» a title which certainly does fit its characteristics.

Through the opinions formed, a thoughtful consensus is given on the many struggles and controversies that the game industry has faced, including the games as art debate, gaming and it's alleged violent and addictive tendencies, and it's legitimacy as a creative medium in the general public eye.

Almost a decade ago, in his landmark text «An Archival Impulse,» Hal Foster persuasively argued that a consensus had emerged that «the museum has been ruined as a coherent system in a public space.»

According to a recent article in Eos (Doran and Zimmermann, «Examining the Scientific consensus on Climate Change `, Volume 90, Number 3, 2009; p. 22 - 23 — only available for AGU members — update: a public link to the article is here), about 58 % of the general public in the US thinks that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing the mean global temperature, as opposed to 97 % of specialists surveyed.

Generally, the public forms views by what it sees in the media and internet (not peer - reviewed journals, academia, scientific conferences, or the consensus from the major science academies) and what I see in the general media a pretty even mix, with many outlets covering contrarians exclusively (such as the WSJ op - ed columns to name one of many).

(You would really then need to go on to explain that consensus does tend to determine correct scientific practice, but explaining the principles of scientific reasoning and research to the public at large would make science articles about 10 times as long as they currently are.)

Mr. Cheney, as a policy - maker, has the perfect right to disagree with the «consensus» and to agree with the «deniers», and to exercise some control on what is said by people on the public payroll.

The scientific discussion is misframed in the press, in the public mind and in the policy sector, as being between the consensus position and the «skeptics» who are so confident that nothing of consequence is at stake in anthropogenic climate change that they feel comfortable advocating an essentially trivial policy repsonse to it.

We don't have a second America to use as a control group, but without the consensus messaging that's happened over the past decade, my guess is that the public would be even more misinformed about global warming than it is now.

Their efforts have been successful, as evidenced by the «consensus gap» whereby the public believe scientists are split on the cause of global warming; a stark contrast to the reality of the 97 percent consensus.

This brief history, as well as some «on the street» interviews with the public about what percentage of climate scientists they think agree on the cause of climate change, are described by Cook in a short video while his post at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists also discusses some motives for attacking the consensus.

For the IPCC both the MWP (Medieval Warm Period) and the LIA (Little Ice Age) existed before the «hockey stick,» so viewing the situation objectively — after the IPCC participated in the rewriting of history by showcasing the «hockey stick as a part of the Left's efforts to manufacture a supposed consensus about climate change — the IPCC condoned a fraud that federal climatists to this very day persist in perpetrating on the public.

Global warming believers need only to counter dry recitations of skeptic science material with assertions about the numbers of «IPCC scientists», declare this to be the settled consensus opinion, then claim there is leaked memo evidence proving skeptics are paid industry money to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other words.

In 2004 the secretariat was warned by the SBI on its role as an impartial actor (after the Executive Director attended an international energy conference to endorse renewable energy) when it formally «took note of the concern expressed that officials of the secretariat should take care in their public statements to reflect the views of parties held by consensus, and not to appear to support only one side or another on contentious issues.»