Sentences with phrase «reached consensus as»

The principals work with each client to reach a consensus as to who will be a client's potential match and potential soulmate.

Developers need to reach consensus as Bitcoin is open source, however, it does mean that moving forward with a topic such as scalability can take a bit of time to get agreement.

Not exact matches

«That's what brought 43 members together as a block of the Problem Solvers Caucus,» said Reed, who noted that each of these provisions managed to reach consensus among at least 75 % of the group — the threshold necessary to be included in the collective proposal.

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.

Among some symbolic gestures, such as formally ending the Korean War, one of Moon's priorities will be to reach a consensus on denuclearization.

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.

Margins, as discussed, are the critical consideration: Against the highly optimistic (in our view) consensus forecast for 2014 U.S. Net Income and EBIT Margins to reach unprecedented levels of 10.8 % and 15.7 % respectively... we conservatively assume 2014 S&P Net Income Margin will no more than maintain the 2012 - 2013 two year average (i.e., 9.3 %).

Using such insights as a guide, the group then reaches a consensus on where the company wants to be in five years.

Moreover, the Senate recently reached bipartisan consensus on a bill to broaden and intensify current U.S. sanctions on select Russian entities and individuals, as well as provide Congress with additional powers to block the president from loosening sanctions in the future.

Today the Ethereum community reached a consensus and implemented a successful «hard fork» of the Ethereum blockchain, which provides for the return of funds that were previously lost as a result of the exploitation of the DAO.

But the panel of airline and advocacy experts was unable to reach a consensus on narrowing the definition of what qualifies as a comfort animal.

It raises serious questions about the Yellen Fed's commitment to transparency as well as its struggle to reach policy consensus.

The last Scaling Bitcoin conference drove down the price of bitcoin as the trading community saw a lack of progress in reaching consensus on the block size debate.

[180] The network reached consensus and continued to operate as normal a few hours after the split.

On August 1st, due to the fact that consensus was not reached throughout the network, a hard fork took place, thus separating the bitcoin network as we know it, into two separate versions: Bitcoin Cash and BTC.

Separately, the Hill adds that the GOP now says the bill will be released on Thursday as lawmakers scramble to reach a consensus on how to restructure the nation's tax laws.

As the years passed, Eliot grew increasingly pessimistic about the possibility of reaching a Christian consensus in the West, resigning himself to the prospect of «centuries of barbarism.»

More important, as I have written, «In trying to reach a consensus of the faithful, the key to bringing persons together is in sharing opinions, ideas, dreams, hopes, doubts, feelings of despair or joy, and those normal human expressions that make us who we are.»

As a whole society is reaching the consensus that love is love, regardless of gender.

In 2014, the 1st International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition provided an opportunity to share experiences and build the evidence base on agroecology, as well as reaching a consensus on the priorities for achieving more sustainable food systems through agroecology.

It is working to reach a consensus with the food industry over the harmful effects of a high salt diet, and bring about a reduction in the amount of salt in processed foods as well as salt added to cooking, and the table.

Just four years later, a group of concussion experts meeting in Zurich, adopted the minority position of the Prague experts, reaching a new consensus, one which considers concussions in sport as a single entity with a range of «modifying factors» instead of being classified as «simple» or «complex.»

Instead, as the saying goes in diplomatic circles when a consensus can't be reached, what took place was, at its best, a «full and frank discussion» of the issues.

Someone with the power to ask rude questions and elicit answers ought to look into «the list» that legislative leaders compile in the final days of each annual session to reach a consensus on which bills will pass and which ones will die as the clock ticks to the mandatory adjournment.

Several asked out and reported they were deadlocked as recently as two days before the conviction, but they ultimately reached a consensus regarding Percoco.

I assume that mental health assessment is harder to be objectively performed, as opposed to physical one, which deals with clear intervals of normality, but I think that many aspects reached scientific consensus and can be used.

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.

There will be a few long term issues such as pensions or the funding of social care where a cross party consensus will need to be reached.

Can we park the constitutional question and reach consensus on a shared future for Northern Ireland itself; and in so doing agree a programme for government which addresses here and - now socio / economic realities, as opposed to each side merely identifying and promoting their own agenda and self interests?

I can announce to this House that having a small glass of water, without the biscuits, with the Chief Whip has allowed us to reach agreement; as our manifesto demanded, a consensus on this thorny issue has been reached.

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.

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 at previous population conferences in 1974 and 1984, national delegates will spend the best part of ten days trying to reach consensus on a programme of action to improve access to contraception for women in developing countries and Eastern Europe.

«When so many leaders in this field can reach a consensus around key priorities, it suggests that the limitations we face affect the entire research community, reinforcing the need to address them as quickly as possible,» said Dr. Weinstock.

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.

An example would be that the restriction on coal production at 3.9 billion metric tons in the period 2011 to 2015 was set after the China National Coal Association, which comprises state coal producers such as Shenhua Group, Datong Coal Mine Group and Yanzhou Mining Group, reached consensus.

Smaller bodies of water such as lakes might make ranching more feasible and small communities could find it easier to reach a consensus, he says.

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.

\ n I know it may be a long time before we reach consensus on the morality of the embryonic stem cell question as well as the closely related questions of abortion and IVF.

Some researchers have suggested a repeating, pulsed heat source, such as lightning bolts, but no consensus has been reached on the feasibility of generating lightning in the solar nebula.141

The general consensus among scientists is that the young Earth's atmosphere contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and / or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the lesser amount of solar energy reaching the planet.

I know that is what the mainstream nutrition field will tell you, but the nutritional scientific community as a whole is far from having reached a consensus on the issue regarding polyunsaturated fats.

Eventually, the board reached a consensus on many issues, including how to draw up petitions and verify signatures, satisfying groups as diverse as Parent Revolution and the California Teachers Association.

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»).

So, as the debate rages on, a consensus on ability grouping and tracking is difficult to reach.

Our experience has been that our states have little difficulty in reaching consensus when we are deliberative and remain open and transparent as policy decisions develop.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) negotiated rulemaking committee completed its third and final session today coming to consensus on the assessment (testing) issues but failing to reach agreement on supplement, not supplant (ESSA provisions requiring that federal Title I funds be used in addition to state and local education investments and not as a substitute for such).

As more nations reach consensus on what skills are essential for success in the 21st century, we can expect yet another chapter to unfold in the extended discussion about good assessment.