Sentences with phrase «reach common ground on»

In Florida, if you and your spouse fail to reach common ground on the terms of your divorce, the matter is referred to as «contested.»

If the public and the legal profession can reach common ground on the utility of LSRs, they have the potential to increase access to justice by providing tailored and affordable assistance when needed.

County Commissioner Bill Donegan has led the committee of animal - control officers, Humane Society officials, breeders, veterinarians and animal - rights activists trying to reach common ground on

The panel members bring diverse perspective on the issues, but the common purpose of trying to reach common ground on how to resolve these issues and plug our students into learning.

Edwards said on Tuesday that she was trying to talk to subcommittee chairman Steve Palazzo (R - MS), the lead sponsor of the bill, and full committee chairman Lamar Smith (R - TX) to see if they can reach common ground on the cuts to earth science prior to markup.

The goal is to reach common ground on issues relating to the New York City Watershed.

«Asset limits are a good example of how states of different political colorations have reached some common ground on best practices in social policy,» remarked Skinner.

Not exact matches

DETROIT / SEOUL, April 13 - General Motors Co's president said common ground must be reached on a long - term financial restructuring of GM's South Korean auto unit by next Friday and if there was none, the operation would likely seek bankruptcy protection.

Greece's centre - left party is to take its turn in a final attempt at building a coalition on Thursday after failing to reach common ground in talks with the radical leftwing Syriza party.

As an attempt to reach out to the Pope and other Christian leaders in order to find common ground, made on behalf of all the main Islamic schools, this latest open letter is unique in the history of Islam.

This is what politicians are employed to do: give a little ground on all sides, reach a common ground so that projects don't grind to a halt the minute there is trouble.

As Tory MEP Daniel Hannan called on the party leadership to reach an agreement on «common ground» with Ukip, the party that forced the Tories into third place in the byelection, Eleanor Laing called on the prime minister to lead a «truly Conservative government».

At the Forests Asia Summit 2014, held in Jakarta on Monday and Tuesday, a high - profile lineup of government officials, business executives, environmentalists, community activists and scientists reached a surprising common ground on the need to address deforestation.

Many advocates on both sides of the diet debate — the low - fat and low - carb camps — have reached some common ground in recent years.

His attempts to reach out to the company and find some sort of common ground have met with little response on Apple's side.

In an ambitious attempt to somehow categorize his art as precisely as possible, we believe Bradford can be placed on a common ground of abstract and conceptual art as his work manages to reach the highest creative peaks of both these artistic methods without falling victim to any of the troublesome obstacles common to both conceptual art and abstraction.

But there's no indication that the two sides of the climate change debate will reach any common ground in the near future on what scientific evidence is showing, or what policy decisions should be adopted.

The Phase 1 collaboration of stakeholders reached an impasse when solar advocates and the Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO), the state's dominant electricity provider, failed to find common ground on how to revise net energy metering (NEM), the rate at which customers with solar panels are renumerated for the electricity they send to the grid.

The mediator provides assistance to both spouses in reaching common ground wherein the resolutions on certain issues are obtained.