Sentences with phrase «reaching a consensus about»

Our panelists, who worked independently, reached no consensus about the best bill - paying service.

He lamented that society has, in the past decade, been less apt to reach consensus about major universal challenges that require solutions.

Cardano uses a new algorithm for proof of stake called Ouroboros, which determines how individual nodes reach consensus about the network.

The state of all accounts is the state of the Ethereum network which is updated with every block and which the network really needs to reach a consensus about.

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

Although nutritionists have not yet reached a consensus about whether organic food offers more nutrients than conventional food, there is evidence that enhanced nutrition is associated with organic dairy products.

In early February, the Greenport Village code committee opened a 90 - day public comment period when they were unable to reach a consensus about how to manage short - term rentals.

To see if the insects reached a consensus about where to gather (an indicator of group personality), they tallied how many insects were beneath each disk at the end of the experiment.

It could not reach consensus about the testing of hepatitis C vaccines.

Even experts can't reach a consensus about whether eggs are healthy.

The NCATE standards document declares, «The profession has reached a consensus about the knowledge and skills a teacher needs to help P - 12 students learn.

Anchorage staff reported that through grappling with the meaning of the standards and reaching consensus about what they wanted students to learn, everyone involved felt a greater stake in the success of the program.

But it only took commonsense comments from thousands of teachers for PEAC to reach consensus about new flexibility in the implementation of the new evaluation and support system, and to relieve the significant demands and pressures on teachers and administrators who simultaneously must also implement the Common Core State Standards.

Then the practitioners can work to reach a consensus about postoperative pain control and IV catheter placement.

There is nothing strange or wrong about scientists reaching a consensus about a scientific topic; it is very much part of the scientific process.

It should not be difficult, in a firm of say 10 to 50 partners, to reach a consensus about which partners should be the firm's elected representatives.

Also, it may be difficult for partners to reach a consensus about what should be the firm's objectives and the strategies for achieving these goals.

Compensation: Partners must define the current compensation system and reach a consensus about whether it (a) reflects the defined culture and goals of the firm, (b) motivates and incentivizes partners to buy - in and to play their roles after the planning sessions, (c) will achieve group and personal reinforcement of expected behaviors, (d) will reward successful participation in implementing the firm's strategic plan and (e) will achieve results.

Send them off to a secluded place outside of Banff with a box of notepads, whiteboards, markers and a case or two of good wine, and tell them to keep at it until they reach a consensus about a completely new model of family justice.

Once enough players have reached a consensus about the possibility of an exoplanet, the data will be sent to scientists at the University of Geneva.

This Monash University study aims to explore and reach consensus about peer support and education for young people in families where a parent has a mental illness.

By giving both sides an opportunity to speak their minds and reach a consensus about the various aspects of their divorce, mediated divorce can provide a wide range of benefits, including:

The September Agency Summit is being held with the hope that CREA and the provincial associations can reach a consensus about a national response.

Not exact matches

In effect, Quorum has two layers of consensus on a single blockchain, meaning two ways of reaching agreement about its transaction records, both stored on one distributed database, or blockchain.

The panel's failure to reach a consensus raises further concerns about when the FAA will issue issue new commercial drone regulations.

Despite technical progress over the past year, the industry's main players have yet to reach a greater consensus, and many questions remain about a mainstream implementation of the Blockchain.

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

It is much more difficult to reach a consensus, or even a compromise, when the difference is not just about WHAT we think but HOW we think.

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.»

Different theologies of scripture exist not because the Christian tradition is inherently contentious and can not reach a consensus, but because each moment, era, and epoch raises different questions about the nature, authority, and interpretation of scripture, and about how scripture relates to tradition, reason, and experience.

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.

Citing credibility issues and conflicting statements, the committee said it was «unable to reach a consensus» about whether Ms. Wozniak had broken the Assembly's rule against sexual harassment.

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.

Yesterday both the UFT and Mayor Bloomberg held separate press conferences within about 30 minutes of one another, and each blamed the other side for their inability to reach consensus.

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.

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.»

«The APC has a history of conducting free and fair primaries whenever consensus about any candidacy is not reached.

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.

But participants reached a state of confusion, rather than consensus, so the decision about the leap - second's fate has been deferred to 2015.

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.

The study indicates that doctors in the United States appear to have reached an unexpected consensus about which medication to prescribe for their pediatric patients.

Despite wide acknowledgement that gun violence levels are too high, little consensus has been reached about what gun policies should be adopted widely.

It's all about reaching a consensus.

In theory, if the SLT reached a consensus, it could make major decisions about school practices that the principal was then required to carry out.

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.

Educators, opinion leaders, and political officials have reached «a near consensus» about the need for change, Scott D. Thomson, the executive secretary of the National Policy Board for Educational Administration, which published the book, writes in its preface.

While we appreciate the state superintendent's desire to involve the community in the decision - making, we would caution him against being overly optimistic about a consensus being reached.

In my experience, teams engaged in this process reach a new level of collaboration — they gain collective clarity about what students should know, and build consensus about the way they will gauge student learning.

The Michigan State Board of Education proved unable to reach a consensus on recommendations to give to the state legislature about new legislation that will lift the cap on the number of charter schools.