Sentences with word «unanimity»

The «Uniting for Peace» doctrine, invoked in November 1950 via its resolution 377A (V), allows the UN General Assembly to recommend collective action when the Security Council, because of lack of unanimity of the permanent members, fails to exercise its responsibility in a matter.

What I personally found most interesting was the degree of unanimity in the view that the biggest gap in the way in which we educate lawyers isn't connected with the substance of law.

If climate change, with near unanimity among environmental scientists that it's at least partially mankind - enabled, still encounters resistance and intractability among the public, it's hard to see how one crummy little study in an obscure journal about rocks will persuade a state court that fracking and earthquakes are indisputably linked.

If an intermediary court were to be established between the superior and court appeal in Quebec, would it require unanimity of all governments to allow judges of that court to be appointed?

In fact, among actively publishing climate scientists — the ones who are specially trained to observe and analyze climate data, and who have dedicated their professional lives to doing so — there is near unanimity on the matter: 97 percent of them believe that climate change is real and that human activity is the cause.

Yet there's no such unanimity about what workplace democracy should look like.

Despite virtual unanimity among scientists that climate change is real, and that it is caused by human activities, people who cast doubt on climate science continue to dominate the debate.

But, as the Council acts by unanimity, I can say that its position will be determined by whichever member state is both most hostile to Scotland's proposals and prepared to threaten a veto.

It is a testament to the rough rollout of the Common Core agenda in New York, and perhaps even more so to the poor marketing of it, that there should be such unanimity of political opinion about it.

One is the meeting of the entire IPCC, in which unanimity is sought among government representatives.

A legal writing professor's examination of U.S. Supreme Court decisions shows the justices usually achieve unanimity on most matters of style.

The EU can not make any laws on town and country planning at all without unanimity (including UK agreement) in the Council, under article 192 (2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU.

Britain can choose to opt out of the measures wholesale without requiring unanimity from the EU's 27 member states.

This means that the apparent unanimity of views expressed in the reports is a false consensus.

Because many Christians exist within a bubble that reverberates our own positions and ideas, they take their imagined unanimity as confirmation that they're right.

Even today there's by no means unanimity in the medical community that fibromyalgia is a legitimate condition.

Without necessarily reaching unanimity at every point, this consensus has been reached and stated again and again in pronouncements of the World Council of Churches, the Federal and National councils, and the various denominational bodies.

Zorita believes that man - made global warming is real, and a serious problem, but he has spoken out about the pressure amongst the climate science community to downplay the uncertainties in the science and to create a public perception of unanimity amongst climate scientists.

While unanimity on central matters of faith is rarely possible, they are not faithfully dealt with by forced - choice majority voting.

For example, the local council and the bishops» council of the Russian Orthodox Church require a quorum of two - thirds of members, not total unanimity.

We may assert today that there is almost complete unanimity among scientists regarding the central position of Life in the Universe, and of Man in Life.

As you will appreciate, this low form of judiciary can spend a couple of hours on attempting to achieve unanimity over whether to partake of herbal or breakfast tea.

When a group gets together to accomplish a task within a finite amount of time, they must limit the arguments (dissent), believe they are moral, hold off competitors, and ultimately, create the illusion of unanimity within its stakeholders.»

However, it must be clear that the higher is the number of members, greater are the difficulties for the EU to act effectively, especially in areas where unanimity is required.

Though a governor, unlike a president or member of Congress, has virtually no influence on foreign affairs, the state's political class with near unanimity supports Israel in its armed conflicts.

There was less unanimity among German Protestant leaders, many of whom saw Bonhoeffer as too overtly political and divisive a figure.

Consensus implies general agreement, though not necessarily unanimity.»

Good point about Jury unanimity.

He believes there was «consensus and even unanimity around most businesses that were transacted in the house» except for a few occasions that parliamentarians, «disagreed.»

All excellent games, although I know Sonic didn't do unanimity among critics and customers alike, but Sonic games are always loved and hated at the same time.

Of course, it is very difficult to find unanimity in research findings — and if we did, we might question the results — but the overwhelming number of research studies continue to support Grutter's findings regarding 1) the educational benefits of diversity and 2) the need to continue to consider race in a limited manner to achieve these benefits.

80) A substantial number of the panel of 2,500 climate scientists on the United Nation's International Panel on Climate Change, which created a statement on scientific unanimity on climate change and man - made global warming, were found to have serious concerns.

«That requires unanimity between us and the EU27 altogether.

In fact, religious confusion and division are more rampant than ever, and unanimity seems farther away than ever.

It was also enough to ensure that the nightmare of bloody combat must vanish in the light of some form of growing unanimity.

In the meantime, the presence of the spirit of Christ and the «Christian phylum» (Teilhard) in this history make history, as such, always influenced by the partial realization of atonement, and the vision of fully realized divine - human unanimity which history approaches as a limit.

The commission, large and diverse, is dealing with complex subjects and has robust debates, as it should, but acts as a whole and reaches full unanimity in all strategic decisions.»

«Prime Minister Cameron is free to propose whatever he wants with colleagues, to colleagues, because we need unanimity to change basic rules in the European Union.

The implication is that no single nation can boycott the decision of the majority (unlike Article 7 which implies unanimity in the Council).

The gizmos were instant winners among one all - important demographic — staff members» children, who likely would have voted for the Town & Country as Automobile of the Year with unanimity if given half a chance.

As I listened to the relative unanimity of opinion, I began to think, «Okay, what can go wrong with this?

But, most of the experts maintain unanimity on the opinion that resumes should be concise, capture attention in the first page and have good organizational strategies for creating a strong impact in the readers mind.