Sentences with phrase «unanimity of»

The Council shall decide on the request with the unanimity of its members referred to in Article 1 and of the representative of the Government of the State concerned.

In that case, by way of derogation from Articles 205 and 250 (1), a qualified majority shall be defined as two - thirds of the votes of the representatives of the Member States without a derogation weighted in accordance with Article 205 (2), and unanimity of those Member States shall be required for an act requiring unanimity.

It is clear, in my view, that the Supreme Court of Canada views the continued participation of the Senate as an essential component of the Canadian constitutional framework and only a constitutional amendment pursuant to s. 41 (e)(requiring unanimity of the provinces) could change that.

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?

All three biographies attach considerable importance to the unanimity of some of the Supreme Court's most important decisions; none take any real notice of the more unusual feature of anonymity.

The 9 - 0 judgment, written by «the court,» underlines the unanimity of the decision.

In addition to globe trotting activist alarmist scientists (some of whom are fully funded by tax dollats) failing miserably to» walk the talk» we also have political candidates issuing inane comments and sound bites regarding the absolute unanimity of the scientific community worldwide regarding a certainty of anthropogenic catastrophic climate change.

Nonetheless, in a nod toward the unanimity of the scientific community, he added: «This report does provide us with enough evidence to move forward in a responsible, reasonable and achievable way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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

2 This response, Brulle wrote, doesn't reflect «the near unanimity of the scientific community about anthropogenic [i.e., man - made] climate change.»

«When there are persons to be found, who form an exception to the apparent unanimity of the world on any subject, even if the world is in the right, it is always probable that dissentients have something worth hearing to say for themselves, and that truth would lose something by their silence.»

It turns out that there is no unanimity of scientists supporting man - made global warming theory and never has been.

The unanimity of agreement in some of their conclusions have surprised me (OK stunned me).

For instance, an implicit claim that all correct scientific theories are supported by a unanimity of Nobel Prize winners / members of the National Academies, is easily dismissed by reference to Kary Mullis or Peter Duesberg.

Indeed, not only will all four of the artists be more - or-less equally unknown to the general public — and scarcely better known even to those with some knowledge of contemporary art — there is a slightly scary unanimity of tone, interest and intention among them.

As one of three judges of the prize, alongside curator Zelda Cheatle and photographer Paul Graham, I can attest to the unanimity of the verdict.

What fascinated me was the relative unanimity of opinion.

This unanimity of purpose imbues the film with a rare generosity of spirit.

As one gets into the film, however, the title takes on added significance as it becomes clear that although the weather may have been glorious, there was not a glorious unanimity of purpose among all the British people towards the onrushing conflict with Hitler's Germany.

While separating the two results — Presidential and Parliamentary — EC officials still alluded to one BVD thus requiring some unanimity of the ballots, upon verification.

«The President says it is quite unfortunate and inconceivable that the forces of evil do not relent on their activities, but expresses confidence that with the unanimity of purpose from all forces around the world, the workers and perpetrators of these evil acts will not prevail.

The margin of victory, won in the teeth of a near unanimity of yes propaganda pouring from media outlets, means that when the troika meet the negotiating team again, they know there's a solid democratic mandate behind them.

So the move of Diane Abbott up to the home secretary brief and promotion of Emily Thornberry to shadow foreign (incidentally, the first time a Labour shadow cabinet has seen an even gender split in the «great offices of state» as well as the elevation of a black woman to such a position) ensures that at the very top there's a unanimity of opinion.

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.

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.

Undoubtedly the scarcest commodity in American political life, with its sky - high levels of partisan polarization and its cable - news - driven incentives toward oppositionalism and contrarianism, is unanimity of opinion.

Also, the amount of overall opposition to bills dropped while the unanimity of each caucus got even closer to 100 percent agreement with how the leader voted.

The main purpose of the laboratories of reflection and the task forces would not be to arrive at unanimity of opinion.

If we suspect there is an execution behind this story, we can see many telltale signs: typical marks of the victim (he has a physical deformity, he is a foreigner), indications of social conflict (fire sweeping the city), traces of the accusations (incest, profaning holy things), the unanimity of the mob violence (stoning and burying the «seed»), and the positive benefits of the death.

He saw Providence in the almost impossible unanimity of the constitutional convention, which completed its work in 53 days.

The union sacrée, the Common Front of all those who believe that the World is still advancing: what is this but the active minority, the solid core around which the unanimity of tomorrow must harden?

The example was meant to bring out even more sharply Immanuel Kant's point that a unanimity of feeling simply can not supply the ground of a moral judgment.

It is clear that unanimity of judgment would not easily be found, and it has not been.

Perhaps even more important, he had discovered, in the unconsidered unanimity of the act which circumstances had forced upon him, another secret pointing the way to his omnipotence.

I want rather to emphasize that if we are going to work for the renewal of our polity and local communities, we need to grapple with the fact that real human community requires more unanimity of thought and practice than we have realized.

Unanimity of both Fathers and Doctors may not represent an exercise of infallibility but it is a measure of a very high degree of certainty in matters of faith and morals.

The Moscow Patriarchate would require the total unanimity of all church delegations — and even of every bishop within each delegation.

Not exact matches

While observers may disagree as to whether Air Canada's sad condition is terminal or just chronic, on one point there is unanimity: the airline needs to undergo a substantial transformation of its business model to return to full health.

Banishment recently achieved the rarest of things — near unanimity from a group of economists.

Although I have zero sympathy for Trump, I am puzzled by the CNN and MSNBC pundits» apparent unanimity that Giuliani's statement that Trump reimbursed Cohen was an admission that Trump lied, when he previously said he had not known of the Daniels payoff.

«Equity sentiment is, unsurprisingly, very bullish and Barron's annual mid-December poll of buy - and sell - side strategists revealed near unanimity in terms of economically bullish sector views,» notes BCA Research in a note titled, «U.S. Equity Froth Watch.»

For the Arabs who make up most of the Antiochian Patriarchate, there is hardly a word for «consensus» in Arabic that doesn't essentially mean «unanimity.»

And while unanimity is a long and painful form of consensus to build, if the Ecumenical Patriarch were to take that approach — or at least recognize its validity — he would set his council, and his primacy, on much surer footing.

But while Antioch did have problems with one of the documents, and while it is also concerned that the council not take any measures that would break pan-Orthodox unanimity, the key to its non-participation is the fact that the Patriarchate of Antioch is currently not in communion with another ancient apostolic Orthodox see, that of Jerusalem.

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.

«I found myself convinced of the position the church has held with almost totally unanimity throughout the ages, that although many people find themselves, through no fault of their own, to have sexual desires for members of their own sex, this is not something to be affirmed and celebrated, but is a sign that we're broken, in need of redemption and recreation,» Hill told students.

We found that in the latter half of the 20th century Christian churches have proclaimed with near unanimity their rejection of supersessionism and their affirmation that God's covenant with Israel has not been revoked.

He is struck by our unanimity on the crucial core of teaching.

Unanimity with the group as a whole had been at the beginning the sine qua non of Yahweh's favor; now such submergence of moral conviction in the majority's opinion seemed to the real devotees of Yahweh to be supine apostasy.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»