Sentences with phrase «reached by consensus»

«There could be changes down the line but they are going to be reached by consensus, not by fiat,» he added.

They relied on resources like EdReports to ensure the materials teachers were choosing from were high - quality, but the ultimate decision was reached by consensus.

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At a high level, as defined by CBInsights, «Blockchain technology offers a way for untrusted parties to reach agreement (consensus) on a common digital history.

With recent uproar over drug price hikes by Valeant (vrx), Mylan (myl) and Martin Shkreli, healthcare experts have reached a consensus: The system as we know it is officially broken.

Due to the absence of West Coast Straussians and perhaps the silence of Mr. Ceaser, we've reached a kind of postmodern and conservative consensus that PART of progressivism — the part articulated by the Court in PLANNED PARENTHOOD v. CASEY and LAWRENCE v. TEXAS — is a kind of Lockean....

Due to the absence of West Coast Straussians and perhaps the silence of Mr. Ceaser, we've reached a kind of postmodern and conservative consensus that PART of progressivism — the part articulated by the Court in PLANNED PARENTHOOD v. CASEY and LAWRENCE v. TEXAS — is a kind of Lockean extremism.

Phillip Cary paraphrases point five of the preamble to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification when he states that the signatories reached a «theological consensus that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone need not be Church - dividing.»

In order to reach consensus with Cobb, Pannenberg would have to grant that future determination by God allows for «formal freedom» in the present, viz, that creatures «could have acted otherwise» (TWP 69).

It took a while, but by the late 1980s, educators started to reach consensus about how to teach religion.

Then a consensus reached by scholars of different confessional and theological viewpoints becomes the really significant thing.

Despite the general consensus on priorities reached by the conference delegates, some interesting disagreements preceded a final compromise.

Kuyper certainly wouldn't have been pleased by his followers» failure to evangelize, and pillarization needn't lead to a lack of outward strategy, but historically such power - sharing agreements place a premium on reaching a least - common - denominator form of consensus and toning down differences.

Giroud and Walcott are simply not good enough to lead the line, that consensus has been reached by the majority of Arsenal fans.

Terrence Ross, the number eight pick by Toronto, was considered a reach by NBA draft experts — and there seems to be a consensus there.

Rich — Some consensus that have been reached by fans on this forum, and in the media, particular by Danny Murphy.

Eventually, a consensus was reached, and the approved bill was signed into law by Mayor Bill de Blasio in October 2017.

Nick Clegg ruled out any additional state funding when he announced last week that he wanted to set up cross party talks about party funding and hopes to reach a consensus by Easter.

The expectation of a new region has manifested in series of meetings by the chiefs to reach a consensus on critical issues but, it is not clear whether the vexed issue of regional capital features in the meetings.

«The Legislature and the Executive should capitalize on this consensus by re-enacting the Revised 421 - a Law and not condition the tax exemption on REBNY and the Construction Trades reaching an agreement on wages — an issue that is distinct from the financing of affordable housing and should be addressed in a separate bill.»

Despite the increased tax revenue, the «consensus revenue» forecast prepared by Malloy's budget office and the legislature's nonpartisan fiscal office on Monday shows a growing state deficit that has reached $ 381.8 million for fiscal year 2018.

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

Still, DeFrancisco insisted he was backing the «consensus» reached by the GOP conference to keep Skelos as leader, but hedged on whether anything would change in the coming days.

House and Senate Republicans have reached an agreement, in principle, on a consensus tax bill, keeping the party on track for final votes next week with the aim of delivering a bill to President Trump's desk by Christmas.

While private pollsters have reached a broad near - consensus on many of the causes of error in the 2016 presidential election, their public counterparts — typically run by news outlets and colleges — have not changed much about their approach.

There is no opening and I am comfortable with the consensus reached by conference,» said Sen. DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse.

Although it's unclear why the decision — which was original supposed to be announced by Aug. 1 — hasn't been made yet, some speculate that the main decision - makers in the project, including the governor, the State Senate and the State Assembly, are simply unable to reach a consensus on which bidder they prefer.

But it added: «If the UK protests about a decision taken by the eurozone countries, it can demand a discussion at the European council, but if no consensus is reached the proposal can go ahead.»

Everything I've ever gotten done was done by reaching some kind of consensus.

Should the governor, Assembly and State Senate fail to reach a consensus by the month's end, control of the city education system would revert to the old community school boards — widely criticized for their uneven, inefficient and decentralized structure.

The IPCC was tasked by the governments of the world to deliver an encyclopedic consensus on the state of knowledge about one of the most far - reaching yet divisive questions of our time.

The consensus reached by Professors Dickinson and Hart and myself was that I was to pursue a collaborative project between Newcastle University and Brisbane, working as the investigator.

Scientists and diplomats review and edit their global warming proposal line by line to reach a consensus

The research may be confusing to a layperson, yet some consensus has been reached: Last November a panel sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) determined that there was at least «some concern» about BPA's effect on the fetal and infant brain.

But the two men's estimates of soot's impact are about twice as high as the consensus reached by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2007 report, which many scientists (including Shindell) still endorse.

No consensus was reached by the participants, primarily because they lacked any hard statistics on which to base new policy.

The Wall Street Journal editorial page has for years railed against these scientific findings on climate change, even as the global consensus has reached nearly 100 percent of the scientific community, including the reports commissioned by the skeptical Bush White House.

My beliefs are that human life should be respected in all its forms and, until we can reach consensus on the questions brought up by this article, we should take the conservative approach of non-action.

Each term was defined by experts in the field, discussed and, if necessary, modified by the Working Group before reaching consensus approval.

... There is a clear need to reach consensus on how to carry out LCAs on biofuels, driven by national and international legislation which include GHG emission reduction goals.

Opinions would have varied, but consensus could have been reached in the knowledge that his brand, Honest By, was operating on the very fringes of the fashion industry.

Researchers and policymakers may be continuing to debate solutions to the nation's reading woes, but many struggling schools appear to have reached a consensus on the subject, even if not by choice.

In other words, NAEP's concept of proficiency is not based on any objective criterion, but reflects a consensus on what should be known by students who have reached a certain educational stage.

Although GCE is well recognized as a key dimension of education for dealing with the challenges and opportunities posed by globalization, consensus about what global citizenship means, and consequently what GCE should promote, is yet to be reached.

That's a daunting challenge for any test maker, but it's further complicated by widespread fears of soaring failure rates and their political consequences, as well as by Arne Duncan's stipulation (in the federal grants that underwrite the assessment - development process) that the states belonging to each consortium must reach consensus on those passing scores (in government jargon, «common achievement standards»).

Please find the solutions that strengthen this new American education consensus by reaching for common ground.

Allow all family members to have input by inviting suggestions and reaching a mutual consensus on the pledge.

Help them reach a consensus on disputed aspects of design by writing down three top picks and taking a vote.

Washington, DC — The National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD) and our partners are disappointed by Secretary of the Department of Education (DOE) Betsy DeVos» decision to eliminate funding for the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities (ODEO) grant program — denying parents and students an opportunity to reach a community consensus on the best methods of socioeconomic integration in isolated, struggling schools.

«It was a compromise by consensus, which was reached after many months of long, tough conversations,» said Mary Loftus Levine, CEA executive director.

These three points connected by three lines are slippery; a triangulation unable to reach consensus.