Sentences with phrase «reaching consensus among»

One of the more difficult aspects of developing a power center is reaching consensus among the big - box users (box stores) as to what they are entitled to sell and what they are prohibited from selling...

We may be efficient in the use of natural resources, or in the generation of a law - abiding public, or in reaching consensus among antagonistic groups, or in moving toward a more egalitarian society.

«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.

In a policy office, much of the work revolves around identifying a problem and working to reach consensus among departments and agencies within the federal government and relevant stakeholders outside the government.

Similarly, variations in research practices around the world need to be studied so that efforts to help reach consensus among the scientific communities can be encouraged.

Theirs views represent a large majority of the school's, but this is a debate which has definitely not reached a consensus among the students,» Gideonse said.

Special thanks go to the wonderful people who made this task a continuing seminar in the underlying values of family mediation and how to reach consensus among thoughtful, decent citizens of their communities.

Not exact matches

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

For Muslim legislators, consensus is the agreement reached among qualified religious leaders in one place at one time.

Based on research findings, mental health professionals have also reached a consensus that the quality of relationships among significant adults in a child's or adolescent's life is associated with adjustment.

In April 2010, Ortega wrote in Palabra Nueva (New Word), the magazine of the Havana Archdiocese, that Cubans had reached a national consensus, and that postponing reforms was sure to produce «impatience and uneasiness» among people already suffering hardships.

«The NIFA board is currently deliberating and will comment further once a consensus is reached among the directors,» board spokesman David Chauvin said Tuesday.

When we can't reach a consensus on some issue, it is put on pause and stays like that until there is a consensus among the actors and this may take a very long time sometimes.

Since then, Democrats, Republicans and Malloy have been unable to reach a consensus on taxes, aid to municipalities, school funding, support for UConn and cuts in state services, among other things.

[60] However, in his account of Labour's negotiations with the Liberal Democrats, Andrew Adonis — who participated in the talks — writes that the general consensus among members of Gordon Brown's cabinet was that talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats would reach an impasse.»

However, aides were unable to add details to how Corbyn might be able to reach a consensus, while MPs opposing him said there was no substance in the Sunday Mirror article, and called on him to show leadership and respond to the overwhelming vote of no confidence among MPs last week.

Last fall, scientists reached a consensus at a meeting in Grenoble for stricter evaluations, fewer rules, and more money, among other reforms.

In the Parliament, decisions are reached through a consensus among parties, and research is an area where members of Parliament (MEPs) are remarkably united across the political spectrum.

Among those experts, the consensus was that while nanotechnology, which in cancer treatment uses vanishingly minuscule particles to launch sneak attacks on tumors, may have promise for the future, that future has always felt just out of reach.

Choosing among the many places to visit within a constrained budget is a task left to the NRC and its decadal survey process wherein the relevant science community reaches consensus after significant debate on the top scientific priorities for a given 10 - year period (a decade, hence the term «decadal survey»).

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.

Although reaching scientific consensus needs to be encouraged, the interpretation of scientific data among nations might be difficult.

NSCS instills in its 21st century learners personal habits important in the work place: accepting responsibility for personal decisions and actions; honesty, courage, and integrity; leadership; a healthy lifestyle; empathy, courtesy, and respect for differences among people; reflection; self - confidence; concentration and perseverance; responsible time management; assuming a fair share of the work load; and working cooperatively with others to reach group consensus.

Ahart and Wilbanks were among more than two dozen people the Education Department tasked with reaching consensus on key regulations related to the new education law, part of a typical process after new laws pass.

One: Academic research has reached an overwhelming consensus that investors have better long - term outcomes when they diversify widely among asset classes, industries, company sizes, and orientation between value stocks and growth stocks.

Although there are some climate change ethical issues about which reasonable ethical principles would reach different conclusions about what ethics requires, the following are conclusions about which there is a strong overlapping consensus among ethical theories.

«Opening up a krill fishery in this region would have to be based on scientific evidence and consensus reached among all CCAMLR members — this is highly unlikely,» Belchier and Hill said.

The government wants to reach a consensus on these matters among all legislators.

The real question, therefore, is whether a potential hard fork can reach consensus - support among Bitcoin's user base.

Perhaps foremost among these, Bitcoin Atom uses a hybrid consensus model that combines Proof of Work (POW) and Proof of Stake (POS), two different types of algorithms for reaching consensus, or agreement, on whether or not a transaction is valid before it is added to the blockchain.

As shown by the comments, the idea comes at a time when interest among network users in exploratory ways to reach consensus on changes to the network rules remains high.

As there isn't an efficient means of governance, issues like the block size debate can get contentious and even lead to hard forks when a consensus isn't reached among the community.