Sentences with phrase «very broad consensus»

This sort of broad policy could only work where there is a very broad consensus among those sought to be governed that it's right to go along with it — and that's exactly what you don't have here — or, alas, where there's a majority that wishes to enforce conformity on the minority and is willing to use social and other pressures to bring that about.

Lord Fowler said there was a «very broad consensus» in parliament for the number of peers to be slashed.

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That's a very important change of narrative from being about a person to it being about a consensus among a much broader community.

Yet the very dissension that has been produced by the religious right points up the difficulties of gaining any kind of broad consensus on the basis of traditional religious values.

But the thing is, there is a pretty broad consensus that people who want to do things like this are very bad guys.

«So strong and broad is this consensus that a special name has been given to those who take a different view — «deficit - deniers» — and some in the Labour party believe our very credibility as a party depends on hitching ourselves to the consensus view.

I thought the closing session was very interesting, but I also thought that the scientists who spoke were clearer than the broader scientific community on things like the consensus on a 2 degree target.

Understanding the basics, along with knowing how most researchers are very reluctant to make broad definitive claims, the whole consensus, everything is bad storyline rang false.

The very broad details (CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it has been rising) are only considered as «consensus» positions in the same way the existence of gravity is a «consensus» position, based on overwhelming explanatory and predictive ability.

There is a very broad scientific consensus on the issue of man - made global warming that is arrived at through evidence from a wide range of research spanning the past century and more.

There is broad consensus that the 5C would be appropriately priced at $ 450, in order to maintain Apple's quality and margins; yet, it's those very same margins that would make the iPhone uncompetitive with Xiaomi's M8, were it to exist in the attractive form I describe.